L'invasion de l'Ukraine par Poutine Salon | Ray McGovern, John Mearsheimer
Pour un marteau, tout ressemble à un clou. Pour un empire, tout ressemble à une crise pour justifier un complexe militaro-industriel-sécuritaire de plusieurs milliards de dollars en tant que dictatrice du monde. La crise du jour pour l'empire américain est l'agression de la Russie contre l'Ukraine. L'establishment politique et les grands médias en attribuent la responsabilité à l'ambition mégalomane du président Poutine de recréer l'empire soviétique. Le Comité accueille Ray McGovern et John Mearsheimer comme une bouffée d'air frais. Ils imputent aux États-Unis une part équitable de responsabilité : l'expansion sans fin de l'OTAN à proximité des frontières russes a provoqué l'invasion ( ) ; la Russie craint les armes nucléaires à ses frontières, plus menaçantes que la crise des missiles de Cuba ne l'était pour les États-Unis. Ray et John proposeront quelques réflexions sur la manière d'enterrer la hache de guerre et d'aller de l'avant. Nous attendons tous avec impatience ce que nous savons être une discussion intense.
Source: Committee for the Republic
Le Comité accueille Ray McGovern et John Mearsheimer
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To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To an empire, everything looks like a crisis to justify a multi-trillion-dollar military-industrial-security complex as dictatress of the world. The crisis du jour for the American empire is Russia's aggression against Ukraine. The political establishment and the mainstream media assign responsibility to President Putin's megalomaniac ambition to recreate the Soviet empire. The Committee welcomes Ray McGovern and John Mearsheimer as a breath of fresh air. They shoulder the United States with a fair share of the blame: the never-ending expansion of NATO cheek by jowl to Russian borders provoked the invasion ( ); Russia fears nuclear weapons on its borders as more menacing than the Cuban Missile Crisis was to the United States. Ray and John will offer some thoughts regarding how to bury the hatchet and move forward. We all look forward to what we know will be a robust discussion.
John Mearsheimer returns for the third time as a salon speaker. We hosted John for his trenchant analysis of the abject failure our quest for global dominance and for his courageous book with Steve Walt on the liability of American support for Israel. John is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point (1970), has a PhD in political science from Cornell University (1981), and has written extensively about security issues and international politics. In 2003, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2020, he won the James Madison Award, given by the American Political Science Association to "an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science." His principal work on Ukraine is "Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault: The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin," appearing in September-October Foreign Affairs 2014. The video of his talk has been viewed more than 14 million times: .
Ray McGovern is a long-time Russian specialist. After serving as an Army combat intelligence officer in the early 60s, Ray joined the CIA's analyst ranks. His first portfolio focused on the Sino-Soviet conflict, which was deftly exploited by Nixon/Kissinger (with more than just interpreter assistance from our own Chas Freeman). As chief of the Soviet Foreign Policy Branch, Ray's analytical team supported the SALT negotiations and he was in Moscow for the signing of the ABM Treaty, cornerstone of strategic stability for the next three decades. Ray correctly predicted Brezhnev's invasion of Czechoslovakia but incorrectly predicted Putin would not invade Ukraine. Ray thinks the new Russia-China entente helps explain Putin's gamble. See Ray's website http://raymcgovern.com and posts on http://antiwar.com