John Mearsheimer Quotes

If Ukraine becomes a pro-American liberal democracy, and a member of NATO, and a member of the E.U., the Russians will consider that categorically unacceptable.

In the unipolar moment, America was genuinely interested in remaking the world in our own image […] Those days are gone—we’re now in a world where the U.S. is going to knock off democracies that we think are unfriendly to us and cozy up to autocrats.

History will judge the US and its allies with abundant harshness for its remarkably foolish policy on Ukraine.

There is no reason to fear that Russia is going to be a regional hegemony in Europe. Russia is not a serious threat to the United States. We do face a serious threat in the international system. We face a pure competitor. And that’s China.

The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked.

The Americans will side with the Ukrainian right… Both do not want Zelensky cutting a deal with the Russians that makes it look like the Russians won.

My view all along is that if the Ukrainians were smart what they would do is divorce themselves from the US. They’ve hitched their wagon to the US…What are the consequences of that?

There is no evidence in what Putin has said that he wants to make Ukraine part of Russia.

The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies.

States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

A state’s potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.