"At this point it is impossible to know the terms on which this conflict will be settled.But...."

 

John Mearsheimer on why the West is principally responsible for the Ukrainian crisis

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There is no question that Vladimir Putin started the war and is responsible for how it is being waged. But why he did so is another matter. 

プーチンが戦争を始め、そのやりかたについてプーチンに責任があることに間違いないが、そこに至った経緯については話は別だ、として、

2008 Bucharest summit From Wikipedia

Mr Putin “flew into a rage” and warned that “if Ukraine joins nato, it will do so without Crimea and the eastern regions.

  The process started in December 2017, when the Trump administration decided to sell Kyiv “defensive weapons”.

U.S.-Ukraine Charter on Strategic Partnership

 November 10, 2021.

As Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, put it: “We reached our boiling point.”

NATO拡大がロシアを怒らせ、また、西側の様々な識者や政治家もNATO拡大には反対してきた、と。