Commentary According to the prevailing narrative, the Russian invasion of Ukraine must be entirely blamed on President Vladimir Putin. The narrative discloses that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was an “unprovoked Russian aggression” against a democratic country, and Putin is a “murderous dictator” who desires to resuscitate the defunct Soviet empire and may even seek to subjugate other European countries to achieve this objective. To give an example, the British tabloid, The Sun, even compares Putin to Hitler. According to its editorial, “it is paramount, as in 1939, that the free peoples of the West defeat this hideous new evil, this Hitler for our times.” However, careful consideration of the Ukrainian crisis reveals that there are more sides to this story, only one of which is being told. John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. For years, he has claimed …