John Mearsheimer

Operation Barbarossa was tantamount to committing national suicide, and that he did it anyway because he was not a rational calculator.
The evidence, however, does not support this interpretation. There was little resistance among the German elite to Hitler’s decision to invade the Soviet Union; in fact, there was considerable enthusiasm for the gambit. F

hey made a wrong decision, not an irrational one, and that sometimes happens in international politics.

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My final test of offensive realism is to examine whether its prediction that great powers seek nuclear superiority is correc