Kasparov: Great powers, bad math—Trump, Mearsheimer, and lazy geopolitical analysis

Garry Kasparov: Too many people still treat Mearsheimer as a serious academic for making the same facile points that Trump is rightly ridiculed over.

Like many self-described “realists,” Trump and Mearsheimer are capable of only the most basic geopolitical analysis: Recognizing which countries are big, and which countries are even bigger. But they struggle with math—specifically, addition.

And addition is what makes the Free World work…