{"id":2252,"date":"2025-08-26T05:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2025-08-26T05:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:04:14","slug":"ukraine-should-cut-a-deal-now%c2%b9-john-mearsheimer%c2%b2-shorts%c2%b3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2252","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ukraine should cut a deal now\u00b9!&#8221; &#8211; John Mearsheimer\u00b2 #Shorts\u00b3&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Key take away<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1.&nbsp; &nbsp; He warns that Russia\u2019s position is essentially non-negotiable and that Ukraine must cut a deal now if it is to avoid further devastation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2.&nbsp; &nbsp;For Mearsheimer, ignoring the hard facts of great-power politics and clinging to Western rhetoric risks only catastrophic escalation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago professor and leading realist, joins UnHerd\u2019s Freddie Sayers to discuss the flurry of diplomacy over ending the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;1.&nbsp;<strong>He warns that Russia\u2019s position is essentially non-negotiable and that Ukraine must cut a deal now if it is to avoid further devastation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Watch it [Full Video] on the UnHerd website\u2074:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/watch-listen\/ukraine-realist-vs-idealist\">https:\/\/unherd.com\/watch-listen\/ukraine-realist-vs-idealist<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ukraine: Peace or surrender? - with John Mearsheimer &amp; Matthew Syed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1NNXujNMbWQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>______________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3.&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/UrpgHVY8B9s?si=iUh5oPKMImmeRcTk\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/UrpgHVY8B9s?si=iUh5oPKMImmeRcTk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>______________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Mearsheimer has long argued that NATO expansion and Western policy blunders set the stage for Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From a realist standpoint, he warns that Russia\u2019s position is essentially non-negotiable and that Ukraine must cut a deal now if it is to avoid further devastation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For Mearsheimer, ignoring the hard facts of great-power politics and clinging to Western rhetoric risks only catastrophic escalation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; UnHerd\u2019s Freddie Sayers brings together two starkly opposed voices on the Ukraine war and the future of world order: John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago professor and leading realist, and Matthew Syed, Sunday Times columnist, broadcaster and author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Mearsheimer has long argued that NATO expansion and Western policy blunders set the stage for Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. From a realist standpoint, he warns that Russia\u2019s position is essentially non-negotiable and that Ukraine must cut a deal now if it is to avoid further devastation. For Mearsheimer, ignoring the hard facts of great-power politics and clinging to Western rhetoric risks only catastrophic escalation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Syed sees things very differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;In a recent Sunday Times column, he criticised the West\u2019s handling of Ukraine, from the failed Alaska summit. He accused Western governments of failing Ukraine and directly attacked Mearsheimer\u2019s realist position as \u201cmorally deranged\u201d and fatally weak. For Syed, only moral clarity and Western resolve \u2014 not accommodation with Putin \u2014 can change the course of the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this debate, Freddie Sayers asks:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is realism just disguised defeatism?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is idealism dangerously na\u00efve in the age of Trump, Putin and Xi?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, after the White House summit with Zelensky, does the West finally have a coherent strategy \u2014 or is Ukraine still being left to fight alone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key take away 1.&nbsp; &nbsp; He warns that Russia\u2019s position is essentially non-negotiable and that Ukraine must cut a deal now if it is to avoid further devastation. 2.&nbsp; &nbsp;For Mearsheimer, ignoring the hard facts of great-power politics and clinging to Western rhetoric risks only catastrophic escalation. &nbsp; &nbsp; John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago professor and leading realist, joins UnHerd\u2019s Freddie Sayers to discuss the flurry of diplomacy over ending the Russia-Ukraine war. &nbsp;1.&nbsp;He warns that Russia\u2019s position is essentially non-negotiable and that Ukraine must cut a deal now if&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-offensiverealism","category-ukraine-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","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=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}