Jordan Peterson is Fatally Wrong About Russia

Some of you may have seen the recent long lecture Peterson put out on his YouTube channel concerning his view on Russia’s war. I wouldn’t have listened to it if I wasn’t writing this article, to be honest.

I thought I would take the time to dismantle some of the claims he made.

Peterson’s argument can be summed up as: “Russia is wrong to invade Ukraine, but the West’s NATO expansion and culture wars are also to blame.”

I will only briefly address the echoing of John Mearsheimer’s argument about NATO…

Author of “Up in the Air” & “Beyond Reason” available on AMAZON | MA McGill Uni | Research assistant for EUROPEUM Prague | 550+ blog posts with 1+ mil. views

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Jakub Ferencik

Author of “Up in the Air” & “Beyond Reason” available on AMAZON | MA McGill Uni | Research assistant for EUROPEUM Prague | 550+ blog posts with 1+ mil. views