{"id":2465,"date":"2025-10-22T18:45:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:48:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:48:02","slug":"john-mearsheimer-interview-ukraine-weakened-is-russia-now-deciding-the-outcome-of-the-war-17-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2465","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer Interview &#8211; Ukraine Weakened: Is Russia Now Deciding the Outcome of the War?, 17 October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Core takeaway&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#UkraineWar\u200b #RussiaUkraine\u200b #Geopolitics\u200b #WarAnalysis\u200b #EasternEurope\u200b #WorldConflict\u200b #RussiaAdvantage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>As Russia gains the upper hand on the battlefield, the balance of power in the Ukraine war is shifting dramatically. Western aid, once seen as decisive, now appears insufficient to change the course of the conflict. Is Ukraine reaching a breaking point\u2014and is Russia now in full control of the war\u2019s direction?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In this video, we examine:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2022 Russia\u2019s growing military advantage and Ukraine\u2019s declining resilience&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2022 Why Western weapons and funding have failed to reverse the momentum&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2022 The possibility that Moscow will determine how and when the conflict ends&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2022 Comparisons to World War I and the most dangerous era since World War II&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2022 The global risks if the war continues to escalate unchecked<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This is not just a regional battle\u2014it\u2019s a turning point in modern geopolitics. The consequences may reach far beyond Eastern Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1YRP-EF9EiE?si=xr_HlUJYzJ7SeShM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/1YRP-EF9EiE?si=xr_HlUJYzJ7SeShM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Core takeaway&nbsp; #UkraineWar\u200b #RussiaUkraine\u200b #Geopolitics\u200b #WarAnalysis\u200b #EasternEurope\u200b #WorldConflict\u200b #RussiaAdvantage As Russia gains the upper hand on the battlefield, the balance of power in the Ukraine war is shifting dramatically. Western aid, once seen as decisive, now appears insufficient to change the course of the conflict. Is Ukraine reaching a breaking point\u2014and is Russia now in full control of the war\u2019s direction? In this video, we examine: \u2022 Russia\u2019s growing military advantage and Ukraine\u2019s declining resilience&nbsp;&nbsp; \u2022 Why Western weapons and funding have failed to reverse the momentum&nbsp;&nbsp; \u2022 The possibility&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-offensiverealism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465","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=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions\/2467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}