Why did Putin invade Ukraine? It's not what you think.

[BlueSwan]

What really concerns me is that some of the younger generations in the west have grown up basically thinking that war is an impossibility, when infact the exact opposite is true. History has taught us that lasting peace is an impossibility. It is ONLY because of the strong western alliance and the leadership of that alliance by the US that we have had peace in the West for nearly 80 years. If we fail to put narcissistic dictators like Putin in their place when they rear their ugly expansionist heads, the peace is gone and if we lose this we lose the West and the world order that the west has built. It's not going to be pretty. For anybody living in the west, there is no alternative to a strong NATO alliance and there is no alternative to supporting Ukraine in their fight against Putin.

[BlueSwan]

I don't think Mearsheimer is even close to being right. The explanation for aggressions by Russia in recent years can all be very easily explained by Putins expansionist desires. It's really not super complicated, as it is behaviour that we've seen from narcisssistic autocrats throughout history.

Also, the official explanations are so clearly bogus that you need to be an utter moron to even begin to believe them. From Ukraine being run by nazis to Ukraine (or NATO) planning on invading Russia. Just utter nonsense.