{"id":1754,"date":"2025-05-07T07:41:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T07:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2025-05-07T07:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T07:42:12","slug":"u-s-ineptitude-on-ukraine%c2%b9-john-j-mearsheimer-may-06-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=1754","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Ineptitude on Ukraine\u00b9 , John J. Mearsheimer, May 06, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1. Prof. John Mearsheimer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 2 May 2025, I was on \u201cThe Duran\u201d with&nbsp;<strong>Glenn Diesen and Alexander Mercouris, two of the world\u2019s foremost experts on the Ukraine war<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;We talked about the Trump administration\u2019s inept efforts to shut that war down and improve relations between Russia and the West.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All three of us are baffled by how badly President Trump has misunderstood the forces at play in Ukraine and the extent to which he has failed to put together a team that can address this problem in a coherent fashion<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost all the evidence indicates that this war will be settled on the battlefield and end in a frozen conflict, not a meaningful peace agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There is little doubt that Trump completely misjudged how difficult it would be to shut down the Ukraine war.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/us-ineptitude-on-ukraine?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1753552&amp;post_id=162946546&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=1sxk3k&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/us-ineptitude-on-ukraine?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1753552&amp;post_id=162946546&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=1sxk3k&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Prof. John Mearsheimer: On 2 May 2025, I was on \u201cThe Duran\u201d with&nbsp;Glenn Diesen and Alexander Mercouris, two of the world\u2019s foremost experts on the Ukraine war. &nbsp;We talked about the Trump administration\u2019s inept efforts to shut that war down and improve relations between Russia and the West.&nbsp; All three of us are baffled by how badly President Trump has misunderstood the forces at play in Ukraine and the extent to which he has failed to put together a team that can address this problem in a coherent fashion.&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}