University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer has reacted to U. S. President Donald Trump’s recent comments describing Russia as a «paper tiger» during the 80th UN General Assembly.

Mearsheimer suggested that those who think Russia is a paper tiger — and there seem to be many — should be sent to Kyiv, put in uniform, loaded onto a truck, and dispatched to the front line.

He added that in the current battlefield conditions, there is no guarantee such a truck would even make it to the front, because, as he put it, this so-called «paper tiger» is tearing the country apart.

Mearsheimer noted that it has become increasingly difficult for Ukraine’s command to move troops to the front lines. He remarked that if those same skeptics managed to get there and survive for a couple of weeks, they would have a much clearer view of whether Russia still looks like a paper tiger.

He concluded that Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines have long abandoned such notions and see Russia not as a «paper tiger» but as a fully armed juggernaut steadily advancing toward them.