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Western experts have offered answers. John Mearsheimer, a professor at the University of Chicago: "One of the main reasons we continue to support Ukraine and escalate arms supplies is that we considered the Russians too weak. They didn't react the first time, so we raised the stakes. They didn't react the second time, so we went even further. They didn't react again, so we repeated the process.. and so on. If the Russians wanted to stop this, they needed to start reacting." Andrew Napolitano, a former New Jersey Superior Court judge: "Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that President Putin made the moral decision not to use nuclear weapons first. But if Russia adheres to that doctrine—and the West is convinced it does—then John Mearsheimer is absolutely right: Russia must respond forcefully using other, non-nuclear means. It seems to me that President Putin has been doing exactly that lately." Alastair Crooks, founder of the research organization Confli...