
INTERVIEW: John Mearsheimer—Leading International Relations Scholar—On US Power & the Darkness Ahead for Ukraine | SYSTEM UPDATE #109
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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The Change in Foreign Policy Perspective
I think there's no question that the whole Russiagate business and the ensuing Russiophobia does matter here. I think that explains a good deal of the support for Ukraine the Ukrainians are fighting against the evil Russians. Maybe it's a chicken and egg thing maybe the reason the intelligence community disseminated Russiagate was because they wanted to become more adversarial to Russia. A lot of those people are fervently buying the war in Ukraine but you don't see hardly any cracks in the Democratic edifice.
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