Indeed the world has not sacrificed all Eastern Europe the Kremlin and it pisses Russia(and Mearsheimer) off. Russia wants its neighbor's out of NATO so it can subjugate, oppress and ultimately conquer them. Just compare how it treats its NATO neighbors compared to its non NATO ones. Ukraine isn't in NATO so Russia felt itself free to poison their presidents, try to make them into a puppet nation, illegally annex their territory and ultimately invade. They felt they could do this because Ukraine didn't have protection, but since Poland or Latvia DO have that protection they were unable to do all those things to them. That's why Russia is so angry that most of eastern Europe is in NATO, that's why shortly before the war they demanded NATO forces retreat back to its cold war borders. Its because NATO prevents Russia from treating the rest of Eastern Europe as they treat Ukraine.
Indeed. Russia is not top dog any longer and post Imperial anxiety causes it to act out in increasingly unhinged ways to try and regain its ''top dog'' position.
And what he said was ''Russia isn't allowed to oppress its neighbors. The world isn't sacrificing all of eastern Russia to the Kremlin! Woe is them!''
But what Mearsheimer and other Kremlin stooges never quite manage to explain is WHY Russia is so inherently special that it deserves a unique Imperial status. Why is Russia so special that it deserves a sphere of influence spanning all of eastern Europe and why should the sovereignty of those countries and the well being of everyone living there be automatically subordinate to the Kremlin's whims?
Is it because ''America bad''? That certainly plays a part but even then it remains strange that these factors only apply to Russia. Not even China, the far larger adversary to the US is given this unique status. No one seriously argues that China should literally own Korea and Mongolia or that Europe isn't able to make any trade deal in Asia without the blessing of Xi Jinping. The unique status the ''America bad!'' folks give to Russia somehow isn't given to China or Iran.
Is it because Russia is just ''afraid'' of the big mean US? Why should that matter? Russia's neighbors are all rightfully afraid of Russia butchering them but according to these ''America bad'' people those countries should just bend over and allow Russia to rape them for fun and profit. Their fears aren't taken into account at all, or are laughed out of the room to appease Russia's feelings. Europe is afraid of Russia but we're not given the green light to annex Belarus and Kalingengrad. Europe's afraid of immigration but no one is saying Europe should enslave north Africa to go fix it.
The world isn't sacrificing Eastern Europe to Russia. Rather, according to Mearsheimer, the U.S. has been using Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia to maintain a unipolar global economy. That's why many of its military bases and installations are located there. They need to control the first and third regions to encircle Russia and China and the Middle East to control oil and other supplies. But there's one catch:
As Biden correctly pointed out, the U.S. uses other countries for proxy wars because it can't afford more Vietnams and Iraqs. That's also why the U.S. needed help from Russia over Afghanistan, and was ironically the basis for encouraging Russia to join NATO. In short, the U.S. provides the money and "allies" provide the warm bodies. And the money comes from the U.S. elite, which makes up 10 pct of the country's population and owns 70 pct of the country's wealth. Much of that wealth comes in the form of dollars, whose value can only be retained as long as a unipolar global economy remains, with the U.S. top dog.
That's also why for the U.S., countries like Israel and Ukraine are tools to be used for proxy wars in order to indirectly attack Russia and China. That's why the U.S. participated in color revolutions and why, as early as 2015, Nuland reported that they were directly supporting Ukrainian police, the government, and the military. Even Stoltenberg of NATO pointed out in the past that the goal is to use other countries against rivals like Russia.
Meanwhile, the U.S. continued to buy uranium from Russia and the EU fossil fuels from the same. When money talks, moralizing walks.
That's also why moralizing claims about annexation, oppression of peoples, tyranny, and even slanderous claims of being Kremlin stooges fall apart when one sees that the country insisting on such has been working with Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, and the rest.