LONDON, UK: In a recent editorial post published in The Economist, John J. Mearsheimer, a US political scientist, claimed, "The West, notably America, is largely accountable" for the Ukraine conflict.
As per Xinhua reports, which cited Mearsheimer, a political science professor at the University of Chicago, American and European policymakers provoked the Ukraine crisis by attempting to integrate Ukraine into the West and asserting that Russian President Vladimir Putin bears full responsibility for the crisis. "However, that storey is false," he said..
"The most deadly international confrontation since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis," he said of the Ukraine crisis. The West is now expanding aid to Ukraine while placing economic restrictions on Russia, which Putin considers to be "equivalent to declaring war." Understanding the underlying causes is critical to finding a solution to the situation. According to the report, the conflict over Ukraine began at NATO's Bucharest summit in 2008, when George W. Bush's administration urged the organisation to declare that Ukraine and Georgia "shall become members."
The West overlooked Russia's security concerns in late 2021 in order to include Ukraine in NATO, which led directly to the current conflict, Mearsheimer wrote.
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