No, Russia Didn’t Get Its Propaganda From John Mearsheimer Jon Schwarz March 7 2022 https://theintercept.com/2022/03/06/russia-john-mearsheimer-propaganda/ Sincere internal criticism of the U.S. — or any country — often sounds a lot like insincere foreign criticism.
not just Mearsheimer, the Soviet collapse and the end of the Cold War meant that an expansion of NATO could lead to dangerous conflict with Russia. Fifty American foreign policy leaders, largely realists, wrote to President Bill Clinton in 1997 that pushing NATO’s borders eastward would be “a policy error of historic proportions. We believe that NATO expansion will decrease allied security and unsettle European stability … In Russia, NATO expansion, which continues to be opposed across the entire political spectrum, will strengthen the nondemocratic opposition, undercut those who favor reform and cooperation with the West, bring the Russians to question the entire post-Cold War settlement, and galvanize resistance in the Duma …”
Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted out an endorsement of a 2014 article in Foreign Affairsby John Mearsheimer, called “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault.” https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1498336076229976076