
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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NATO's Defensive Alliance
NATO had what I believe was a defensive strategy during the Cold War. But if you're standing on the other side of the line it does not look defensive in nature but looks offensive in nature, he says. "People who make arguments about particular weapons or particular strategies or particular alliances being defensive in nature are whistling in the wind" He adds that NATO's expansion into Ukraine is an example of this problem.
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