{"id":14659,"date":"2026-08-03T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=14659"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:08:28","slug":"mearsheimer-ukraine-krieg-folge-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/latest\/mearsheimer-ukraine-krieg-folge-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. John Mearsheimer: The Origins of the War in Ukraine | Episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>In this video, Prof. John Mearsheimer examines why deterrence failed before February 24, 2022, and why Russia began the war despite the enormous military risks. He connects his theory of conventional deterrence to the political and military decisions that preceded the invasion.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>Mearsheimer challenges one of the central Western assumptions about Russia\u2019s original war aims and develops an alternative explanation for how a limited attack evolved into a prolonged war of attrition.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>This video was produced by John Mearsheimer and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0LmCveTM788\">published on his YouTube channel <\/a>on the 30th of July, 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>To read the transcript of the interview:<strong><strong><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Episode-1_-Origins-of-the-War-In-Ukraine.docx.pdf\">Prof. John Mearsheimer: The Origins of the War in Ukraine | Episode 1<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>We are transitioning away from YouTube. 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The content does not necessarily reflect acTVism Munich\u2019s own editorial stance.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Donate today to support independent &amp; non-profit media!<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> or on the picture below:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"d-flex justify-content-center pb-3 sal\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future-1-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future-1-1-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ABOUT JOHN MEARSHEIMER<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980. He spent the 1979-1980 academic year as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University\u2019s Center for International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. 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