The article is largely irrelevant, and it might help someone all the same.

At the end of the day, you're advocating for conflict escalation based upon fictitious principles that aren't shared by the people waging the war.

Mearsheimer's overriding point, regardless of language quibbling, is that war could have been avoided with a neutral Ukraine.

War is here now. People are dying needlessly. I do not agree with you at all that peace is accelerated by NATO expansion.

Discussions such as these serve the interests of the war capitalists. These discussions, no matter their reach, lend gravity to armchair theories and theoretical points of contention while people die.

Despite my entertainment of this discussion, this is not the proper venue. Please be more respectful in the future.