The Arab-West Report newsletter about the analysis of Dr. John Mearsheimer led to several angry responses. Mearsheimer puts the blame for the war on NATO. This should not be explained as an approval for the Russian war on Ukraine. Dutch physicist Dr. Evert du Marchie and Dutch Arabist and journalist Eildert Mulder disagree with Mearsheimer and explain why. The Soviet Union has dissolved to the great dismay of Vladimir Putin but this is no justification to wage a war resulting in huge material and immaterial losses on Ukraine, Russia and countries that depended on wheat and other products from Ukraine and Russia. The correspondence shows the complexities of this conflict and the huge risks of an escalation of the war.