Mearsheimer is on the Russian payroll through the Valdai Club, which was set up to influence Western thinkers. He omits facts or twists them to fit his narrativ

Mearsheimer is on the Russian payroll through the Valdai Club, which was set up to influence Western thinkers. He omits facts or twists them to fit his narrative. So it's no wonder that Russians have paid to have his books published. If you are listening to anything he says, you are ingesting Russian propaganda. It's like trying to learn about Germany from revisionist Neo-Nazi literature paid by a "friends of the SS" type of organization. Not a good idea unless you are an expert who can spot the distortions. Mearsheimer's manipulations become very obvious when he faces a knowledgeable person who is not easily fooled by him. Such as Radoslaw Sikorski, the foreign minister of Poland. Sikorski and Mearsheimer held a public debate over Ukraine, and Mearsheimer was utterly humiliated when he tried to argue against Sikorski about events he has only read about, but where Sikorski was a direct participant. The debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivcSVG5eCeQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivcSVG5eCeQ