In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.
John MearsheimerThe sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.
John MearsheimerThis self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.
John Mearsheimer