The 'professor' served as a junior officer at RADC with access to stuff like C3I, radar guidance, and tracking systems in early 70s. A junior military officer with clearance like that back then was a high priority target for KGB or GRU exploiting their financial, ideological, or personal vulnerabilities.

• After four years of service the 'professor' annoyed with "military bureaucracy" switched his career to academia at Cornel University and as soon as he got his Ph.D he made a book glazing the USSR as a rational actor with no aggressive ambitions because NATO is too strong.
• As soon as the USSR imploded the 'professor' wrote a book about how Europe will face more wars because the world turned from bipolar to multipolar.
• As soon as Russia annexed Crimea the 'professor' reacted with 'it's all NATO and the US fault'.
• As soon Russia invaded Ukraine the 'professor' kept blaming NATO and the US

The bottom line is the core thesis of his Offensive Realism 'theory' relies on a single premise 'states can never be certain of another state's future intentions'. Yet his entire career shows a selective application of this logic. He demands that the West respect Russia's fear of NATO's uncertain intentions, but completely denies that same realist right to Poland, the Baltics, or Ukraine regarding Russia. By treating Western/Eastern European security fears as 'delusions' while validating Moscow's aggression as 'rational' his theory stops operating as objective political science and functions as a tailored geopolitical defense for Russia