Freddy Gray is joined once again by the University of Chicago’s Professor John Mearsheimer to discuss why Trump’s 28-point Ukraine peace plan won’t work, how the war will ultimately be decided on the battlefield, and what happened when Jeffrey Epstein and Alan Dershowitz ran a smear campaign against him over his essay on the Israel lobby.
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00:00 – Introduction
01:29 – Dershowitz and Epstein
07:08 – Middle East politics
10:19 – Free speech and anti-semitism on campus
13:28 – Trump’s leaked peace plan
16:17 – Why no political settlement is possible
19:45 – Ukraine’s manpower and desertion crisis
23:01 – Could Russia take more territory?
26:33 – Europe’s role and the money problem
29:51 – Could Europeans enter the war?
33:11 – What a frozen conflict would look like
37:02 – Trump, Russia, China & where this ends next year
1. John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982.
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