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1. On 27 January 2025, I did a long interview on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”
We zeroed in on Gaza and Ukraine and talked about where those conflicts are today and what is likely to happen in each one now that Donald Trump has replaced Joe Biden in the White House.
Neither one of us could tell an optimistic story.
Abstract
Professor of Political Science at Chicago University John Mearsheimer returns to Uncensored to discuss with Piers Morgan the return of President Donald Trump, the long-sought Israel/Hamas ceasefire and the grinding mud-caked machinery of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Professor Mearsheimer takes the surprising view that Hamas is winning the war against Israel, admonishing both Trump and Netanyahu’s continued push for the group’s total destruction. He takes a similar bullish tone on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, strongly favouring Russia’s chances of victory, though Piers makes the point that Putin resorting to using North Korean troops to fight Ukrainians within Russian territory doesn’t exactly scream success.
00:00 – Introduction
01:49 – Trump, Biden and what the new presidency means for the Middle East
06:00 – Will the US attack Iran?
09:17 – “Israel’s principal goal was to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians”
11:26 – “Hamas has effectively won”
15:13 – “There is no purely military solution to this problem “
19:00 – Can Mearsheimer see a normalisation of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia?
20:38 – Will Netanyahu last much longer?
23:40 – “Russia is clearly winning in Ukraine”
28:50 – “Trump’s comments on sanctions are divorced from reality”
33:30 – Piers: “If Russia’s so strong, why did they need troops from North Korea?”
42:00 – “Remarkably foolish of the West to not shut down this war a long time ago”
45:00 – Is it more likely China will make a move on Taiwan?
