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On GZERO Media's series The Red Pen, Ian Bremmer and colleagues pick apart the argument in a major opinion piece.

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Putin is responsible for bloodshed in Ukraine, and Ukraine's pro-Western positions

Who is responsible for the crisis in Ukraine? Political scientist John Mearsheimer argues in a recent op-ed in The Economist that while Vladimir Putin started the war, it was NATO's "reckless" expansion that provoked Russia to attack. In this episode of The Red Pen — where we do our best to keep op-eds honest — Ian Bremmer and Eurasia Group analysts Graeme Thompson and Zachary Witlin explain that nothing the West did, or didn't do, caused Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

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