The original comment doesn't show up so I'm not able to reread it but the relevancy of my bringing up Mearsheimer was purely in response to the mentioning of Russia invading a sovereign country, namely Ukraine, not to the Russian developers being removed by the Linux maintainers.
What makes his reasoning suspect? Genuinely curious. I accept that his reasoning that the Israel lobby is the main motive for US Foreign Policy in the Middle East is flawed or overstated. Anything else?
(1) He fails to read Putin's colonial attitude toward Ukraine, and is way too eager to accept the regime's stated NATO encroachment position at face value (rather than for the foil that it is).
(2) Dualism -- he's obsessed with the idea that the US has one real enemy, China, and that therefore Russia should be its friend, no matter what it does.
But mostly because he makes a lot of distorted (and in my view digingenuous) statements (or omits things he should be saying) about basic events.
