{"id":2603,"date":"2025-12-03T21:35:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2025-12-03T21:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:35:30","slug":"professor-john-mearsheimer-on-why-a-russia-ukraine-peace-deal-is-impossible%c2%b9-1-dec-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2603","title":{"rendered":"Professor John Mearsheimer on why a Russia-Ukraine peace deal is impossible\u00b9, 1 Dec 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Freddy Gray is joined once again by the University of Chicago\u2019s Professor John Mearsheimer to discuss why Trump\u2019s 28-point Ukraine peace plan won\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/\/ CHAPTERS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>00:00 \u2013 Introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>01:29 \u2013 Dershowitz and Epstein<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>07:08 \u2013 Middle East politics&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10:19 \u2013 Free speech and anti-semitism on campus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13:28 \u2013 Trump\u2019s leaked peace plan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16:17 \u2013 Why no political settlement is possible<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19:45 \u2013 Ukraine\u2019s manpower and desertion crisis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23:01 \u2013 Could Russia take more territory?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26:33 \u2013 Europe\u2019s role and the money problem<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29:51 \u2013 Could Europeans enter the war?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33:11 \u2013 What a frozen conflict would look like<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>37:02 \u2013 Trump, Russia, China &amp; where this ends next year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/p63EKgG_UMc?si=NmOyNejFOu_69EH1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/p63EKgG_UMc?si=NmOyNejFOu_69EH1<\/a><\/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=\"Professor John Mearsheimer on why a Russia-Ukraine peace deal is impossible\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p63EKgG_UMc?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freddy Gray is joined once again by the University of Chicago\u2019s Professor John Mearsheimer to discuss why Trump\u2019s 28-point Ukraine peace plan won\u2019t 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. \/\/ CHAPTERS 00:00 \u2013 Introduction 01:29 \u2013 Dershowitz and Epstein 07:08 \u2013 Middle East politics&nbsp; 10:19 \u2013 Free speech and anti-semitism on campus 13:28 \u2013 Trump\u2019s leaked peace plan 16:17 \u2013 Why no political&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2603","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\/2603","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=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/2605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}