{"id":2667,"date":"2025-12-20T19:41:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2025-12-20T19:41:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:41:21","slug":"prof-john-mearsheimer%c2%b9-ukraine-is-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2667","title":{"rendered":"Prof. John Mearsheimer\u00b9: Ukraine is Doomed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><br>1. John Mearsheimer argues that Ukraine\u2019s situation is dire and likely unsustainable.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rushing untrained troops into combat&nbsp;<strong>is described as extremely irresponsible and largely futile, highlighting Ukraine\u2019s severe manpower shortages.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Militarily, Russia is said to now hold decisive advantages in drones, artillery, and precision-guided bombs, while Ukraine faces shortages of money, manpower, and firepower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The balance of the war, in this view, overwhelmingly favors Russia.<\/strong>&nbsp;European leaders like Emmanuel Macron are criticized for offering vague optimism about \u201cjust and sustainable peace,\u201d undefined \u201ccards to play,\u201d and claims that Russia\u2019s economy is collapsing\u2014claims the speaker says are unsupported. Meanwhile, the United States, especially under Trump, is portrayed as pulling back, shifting responsibility and costs to Europe, which lacks the economic and military capacity to replace U.S. support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>European economies are described as weaker than in 2022, burdened by debt and unable to fund Ukraine at the necessary scale\u2014hence talk of seizing Russian assets, which the speaker calls a sign of desperation and a dangerous precedent. If the U.S., Europe, and Ukraine together could not defeat Russia before, the speaker argues, Europe alone certainly cannot now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discussion frames current transatlantic tensions as a growing political \u201cwar of words\u201d between Trump and European leaders. Looking ahead, the speaker predicts Ukraine will eventually lose the war, resulting in a devastating defeat for NATO. A \u201cblame game\u201d is already forming, with Europeans likely to fault Trump for withdrawing support, while Trump positions the war as Biden\u2019s responsibility and emphasizes Europe\u2019s primary role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, calls from Western figures for strong security guarantees\u2014including potential U.S. forces in Ukraine\u2014are dismissed as unrealistic. The overall conclusion is that many Western elites privately recognize Ukraine\u2019s likely defeat and are now maneuvering to avoid being blamed for the outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4ug4vmbaowc?si=_10Wy0X666e3GnNJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/4ug4vmbaowc?si=_10Wy0X666e3GnNJ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. John Mearsheimer argues that Ukraine\u2019s situation is dire and likely unsustainable.&nbsp; Rushing untrained troops into combat&nbsp;is described as extremely irresponsible and largely futile, highlighting Ukraine\u2019s severe manpower shortages.&nbsp; Militarily, Russia is said to now hold decisive advantages in drones, artillery, and precision-guided bombs, while Ukraine faces shortages of money, manpower, and firepower. The balance of the war, in this view, overwhelmingly favors Russia.&nbsp;European leaders like Emmanuel Macron are criticized for offering vague optimism about \u201cjust and sustainable peace,\u201d undefined \u201ccards to play,\u201d and claims that Russia\u2019s economy is collapsing\u2014claims&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667","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=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}