The crisis has triggered regional insecurity and created \u201chuge problems\u201d in relations between the EU and US, the renowned professor has said
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Western Europe faces a \u201cbleak future\u201d as a result of the Ukraine conflict, which was provoked by the West and the US in particular, according to American international relations expert John Mearsheimer.
\nIn an interview with political scientist Glenn Diesen posted on Tuesday, Mearsheimer said the conflict had triggered major insecurity in Europe and had caused \u201chuge problems\u201d in relations between Washington and Western Europe.
\nCooperation across political, military, and economic issues has grown more difficult, according to Mearsheimer, who pointed to recent talks as evidence that Western Europeans are \u201cbattling against the United States on how to deal with Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mearsheimer, who is a political science professor at the University of Chicago, claimed Europe is \u201cin deep trouble\u201d for two main reasons linked to the weakening American role on the continent, arguing it \u201cis largely a function of the presence of a substantial US military force in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The US and West European governments expanded NATO after the Cold War because they \u201cwanted to put the American security umbrella over the heads of the East Europeans as well as the West Europeans,\u201d he said.
\nMearsheimer said this system is now under strain because of a \u201cdeep change in the distribution of power\u201d in the international order. The US could easily maintain large troop deployments in Europe during the 1990s and early 2000s, he said, but the rise of multipolarity now pushed Washington \u201cto pivot to Asia.\u201d
\nThe remarks echoed Mearsheimer\u2019s address at the European Parliament earlier this month, where he said the unipolar era had ended with the emergence of China and Russia as major powers. \u201cThe US was no longer the only great power in the world,\u201d he said in Brussels.<\/p>\n
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The shift gave Washington \u201cfurther incentive to leave Europe and let Europe provide for its own security.\u201d Mearsheimer warned the Ukraine conflict would likely be frozen rather than resolved, leaving \u201cpoisonous relations\u201d between Western Europe and Russia and generating \u201clots of instability\u201d in the region.
\nHe also said the US and Western Europe had played a key role in provoking the conflict, arguing that the real cause lay in NATO\u2019s push to bring Ukraine into the bloc, a move he said Russian leaders viewed as an existential threat.
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