NATO Doesn’t Want Peace — NATO’s Final Warning to Putin

John Mearsheimer, an American political scientist and international relations scholar. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.

Question: Do you think that is an achievable goal that by 2029 … Europe will be in a place where it could fight and sustain a war with Russia?

“… I don’t think so. I think that if you look at the state of the economies in places like Britain, France and Germany, the three biggest economies in Europe, they are in deep trouble and these are countries that are committed to significant amount of welfare spending, and the idea that you are going to stop spending on welfare, especially given these hard economic times, and you are going to take that money and spend it on military. To deal with …. what is actually largely an imaginary threat ……

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