Oh No! Not Again.

by Andrei Martyanov [11-16-2025].

(RAD: Yes, I've seen many references from different sources where the West has constantly tried to find ways to defeat Russia/USSR since the end of WW2. Even today, the EU openly admits that they must defeat Russia via Ukraine, which won't happen. The West has always wanted to split it up into smaller regions beholden to the West. — RAD)

Putin "didn't figure out the plan", this "plan" was in force since 1945 and the guy who figured it out was Stalin. Fact is, he knew it already in 1939. West eager to finish Russia as a great power – John Mearsheimer.

The US political scientist argues that President Putin has figured out the plan and has every reason not to trust Western leaders.

The only difference have been 1980s and 1990s when USSR took the path (originally formalized in 1975 in Helsinki but conceived in 1960s) of "peaceful coexistence" between the West and USSR, which resulted in dissolution of said USSR, collapse of the socialist system and participation of Yeltsin's criminal gang in destruction of Russia.

Mearsheimer really needs to update himself on WW II and how and by who Nazism has been crushed and why today Stalin is increasingly venerated in Russia because population at large can see how right he was viewing the West as an existential enemy of historic Russia. All this, mind you, despite incessant anti-Soviet and anti-Stalin propaganda in Russian media and among the so called "creative class". Putin is a product of the system which KNEW always what the combined West was up to and even before Putin's "arrival", Russia understood what was transpiring--hence Primakov's Doctrine, a radically anti-Western geopolitical vision which has been realized now.

Related

Pepe Escobar: Russia–Iran–China: All for one, and one for all? [4-8-2025] See section on "When the new Primakov triangle meets in Beijing"