Try reading this letter and see if you still believe him. Note the number of signatures at the bottom.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230806172854/https://news.berk...
The aggressive aspect of NATO is also minimized, which I think is naive.
I was in Ukraine in 2016 and saw the US fighter jets flying formations on Russia's doorstep. Calling that "defensive" is absurd. We now know that since the 1990s there has been a US goal to aggressively expand NATO mainly to suppress Russia.
The problem with this strategy is that it does not care at all about Ukrainian lives. As someone with family in Ukraine, I do not want my country (the US) wreaking havoc in the region. Thousands of Ukrainians are dying every single day right now, all because the US doesn't want to respect Russia's security zone. Mearshimer calls this the US nostalgia over the "uni-polar moment" when the US was briefly the only superpower.
Too much of the modern notions of American exceptionalism rely upon biases from that brief moment in history, to everyone's peril.
Until then, a multi-polar world among authoritarian aristocracies is a pipe-dream. Everyone hates American hegemony until you ask them what other hegemony they would like.
So missiles we must make, and make them cheaper we can.
[1] https://www.voanews.com/amp/new-poll-reveals-how-ukrainians-...