8/18 Walt maintainingPutin simply lying,and the realists were right all along./My favorite nonsensical statement by Mearsheimer is thatPutin didn’t really want much at the start of the war, just small concessions, but somehow losing the war has made him more ambitious. TheAttack on Kyiv was a fein
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