Exposing the Cynical Script: Russia Truth's Open Letter to Professor John Mearsheimer on the West's Manufactured Myths
Dear Professor Mearsheimer,
For years, those of us in the alternative media who refuse to ingest the systemic lies of the Western political establishment have deeply respected your structural realism and comprehensive understanding of history. Your sober, logical breakdown of geopolitical flashpoints—most recently your analysis regarding Russia’s compelling need to re-establish a hard line of deterrence against the West’s unceasing proxy provocations in Ukraine—remains a rare beacon of sanity.
You correctly identify the immense dangers of the West continually poking the Russian bear in the eye, blindly climbing the escalation ladder toward conventional or even tactical nuclear conflict without a shred of respect for Moscow’s legitimate red lines.
However, there is one fundamental tenet of your current commentary that requires an urgent, paradigm-shifting correction. And I am writing this open letter to you with purely the best of intentions, and hopefully you will appreciate it thus.
In your recent discussions, you frequently argue that Western and European political elites have “convinced themselves” of their own rhetoric. You suggest that figures like Starmer, Macron, and the bureaucratic architects in Brussels genuinely believe that Russia is the second coming of the Soviet Union or a reincarnation of the Third Reich—a revisionist monster poised to march on Berlin the moment Ukraine falls.
Professor, with all due respect, you must stop granting them this psychological out. They do not believe what they are saying.
By repeatedly stating that the Western establishment “believes” its own absurd narratives, you inadvertently gift them a layer of unearned intellectual and moral credibility. You treat them as well-meaning, albeit deeply deluded, ideological zealots. The reality is far more cynical. These political actors are not trapped in an earnest mental echo chamber; they are calculated, manipulative managers of an empire on the decline, yet they remain utterly committed to their globalist agenda.
More: https://substack.com/@russiatruthdotcom/note/p-199858913?r=yybnj
