Would Trump really pull out of Ukraine? With John Mearsheimer | SpectatorTV 

Or more accurate statement is: THE ELITE DONT CARE what the public thinks. THEY WILL CONTINUE to do as they decide, regardless of the publics thoughts.

That's why they gotta go

Yep. Elections are not governing tool anymore. It is just merely an act of justification now.

1. Crimea had a national referendum in 2014 to return to Ukraine. 2. Exxon and Shell were making back door deals with the Naut zee Zelensky. Simple deal : access to the nat gas in exchange FOR TECHNOLOGY TO EXTRACT THE GAS FROM THE GROUND. 3. Sometime between 2009 and 2014 Ukraine starts murdering the Separatist rebels! Diana Magnay was the CNN correspondent who did the Donetsk, Ukraine genocide. Mom Jeans gave the money, mortar and shells to Ukraine for the genocide! 4. The day before Russian battle tanks rolled west, Potus Biden bans the Separatist regions from doing business with the U.S. 5. Patrick Lancaster is the journalist who covers the continuing genocide today! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PlYmLpJb5_I.html

Yep, that attitude is why Mearsheimer's wet for Putin.

Yes, Putin should create a democracy in USA and lead our government.

Saying the US isn't a democracy is like a spoiled rich kid saying they're broke when their parents don't buy them a mercedes. Americans vote on politicians who go on to serve in the government, and their votes matter. The US is a democracy.

@@cowyeti21 When the rich parents really become broke and thus cannot afford anything including a Mercedes, the kid is absolutely right saying so.

@cowyeti when the candidates are selected by the intelligence state, and serve the intelligence state agenda, when populist candidates are assasinated or character assasinated, when the military is deployed against the public, when propoganda is broadly disseminated, when the intelligence state holds editorial oversight over all news and social media outlets, when violent terrorist groups are funded and organized by the intelligence state, and when the intelligence state has incorporated organized crime into it's steucture, we have NO democracy. @cowyeti, ylu are either a liar or ignorant. Learn about the history of the USA and you WILL be shown the errors of your thinking.

@@xiuchengmu1849 But the parents aren't. The kid is just so used to living in abundance that the slightest restriction is indistinguishable from poverty. People crying about the US not being a democracy cause their favourite candidate didn't win should go live in communist cuba where there's only one party.

Yes we are. But the media and elites don't let us be heard. They fired the biggest and most influential spokesman for our anti-war cause...Tucker Carlson. Your opinion on American populous is outdated by decades.

Hence, the playbook is proxy wars to keep American safe, use of drones, robotics and AI. So it's Japan vs China, Taiwan vs China, India vs China etc etc.

@@Time4Peace ECOWAS vs. Niger, etc...

Human rights belong to those who have the public's attention, really.

John doen't realize the base of his argument won't change: he assume Russian won't change its goal if other things happens, Ukraine won't change its position if other things happens. "Those other things" is not something I can speculate.

Yeah, she was not very good at hiding her bias, very unprofessional ...

Also her point about average Ukrainians not being on board with a peace deal. John was highlighting that the ultra nationalists will be the hardest to convince about a peace deal, not that nobody else in Ukraine will be resistant to a peace deal involving a loss of territory. She tried to talk down to him with that nonsense, but didn't have the intelligence to counter anything he said, so could only say something ridiculous.

Yeah, when Mearsheirmer swept her point aside she looked crestfallen. Facing someone who knows what they are talking about and does not comply witht the narrative and panic sets in. I do have to wonder if willful blindness is at work or is the cool aid that strong.

John was remiss in not mentioning the civil war in Ukraine that had been going on for eight years prior to Russia's special military operation.

Or just ignorance and stupidity?

John Kearne :: It should always have been "common knowledge". The Founders hated the idea of Democracy. It would have threatened their class-privileges. A Republic puts some distance between the property-owners and the more egalitarian "mob".

@@cliffgaither Yes, I have heard many thinking US citizens say that the US is a republic, rather than a democracy.

He been warning about this war since 2014 and he was right sadly.

you have the "flap your lips and say a lot yet do nothing" part down pat just like this guy carrying water for the democrats

@@carlroberts7830 in this short segment he insulted the democrats a dozen times at least

Is nothing worth fighting for?

@@chrishooge3442 If you think the novo-Third Reich regime in Kiev is worth WWIII, you need to get help.

Mike, you are not alone.

@@alecfoster4413 Their President is a Jew. How do you square that?

Ok lets revolt, i am with you

WTF? You been sleeping?

If Nato were in Ukraine the War would have ended ages ago. If USA stopped supporting Ukraine the Ukrainians would fight on. The 'West' did not fall prey to anti Putin propoganda. Putin rewrote history to say that Ukraine is not a real State. He also invaded the Sovereign Nation of Ukraine. That's not propoganda. It's FACT.

@@dennisw8026 its sarcasm. corporate media still can’t admit that the United States has people over there protecting the bio labs and other secrets. Ukraine is a shit hole of Nazis, pedophiles, drug dealers, human traffickers and money launderers. And concerning the Biden family I’m sure they know where all the bodies are buried.

"right ?" -hahaha-

There are American Boots in The ground

Oh, and let's not forget that Putin is really the 'victim' in all of this. ;-p

If ukraine refused to fight , it would have saved a lot more territory

Trump is a businessman. If he see that Ukraine is unprofitable and will crush the Biden's family in Ukraine, why not? It's just like hitting a two birds at the same time.

If that's the case, then the Trump should try to squeeze every penny possible from Ukraine before they're forced to surrender. Instead of donating supplies, sell them at top dollar and make bank for the American Military Industrial Complex. If they can't pay cash on the barrel, force them to take IMF and World Bank loans.

Because his name keeps COMING UP. Western press is a crock.

or trump

My thoughts as well Nige.

@@futures2247 Trump is a deep state toy. Got everyone fooled. He started covid game.

Read Laura Dodsworth’s book about Johnson. (Factual texts about the Covid nonsense) He’s a vile liar.

@morcosboci I think most Americans don't mind taking care the basic needs of other countries like Ukraine.

@@emilio2647 laughable... First they should take care of their basic needs...

usa economy is 23320 billion , its interest is .02% ....quick start a panic

it is failed because of communist (democrat ) policies.

You have no understanding of economics. This is the biggest problem with Republicans. They think it works like your bank account. In reality we have a debt based economy. If you took ever dollar printed you could not pay off the debt. You would still owe the interest the money that hasn't even been created yet. It can never be paid off, and in fact if debt stopped the whole system would also. Every dollar printed is borrowed into existence thus its a debt note.

Well, it was more of a "rain postponing the game" sort of event. This was basically going to happen one way or another after the 2014 coup.

Spot on and always refreshing to see someone mentioning the covid era in thi context. The clueless majority of the public still doesn't realise how they were made fools by the massive propoganda during the so called pandemic. Most people still think all the extreme measures were nessecary and actually saved lives. How is common sense going to have a chance when people are so easily manipulated?

The Compromise: Let Russia keep what it reclaimed, which they used to own from the 1700's to the beginning of the USSR/1920, and now again: Crimea, and Kherson through Luhansk oblasts. And get on with peace.

The WWI analogy was spot on since Wilson ran on the non-interventionist platform yet within 18 months the US was in WWI. He had a crack team of propaganda experts fix all issues. BTW, propaganda did not have 'evil' undertones in those days, it was just a tool or methodology to get things done like advertising.

Господа, да в любую из войн мировых за последние 200 лет, все мечтали владеть землями нашими российскими! Со времен Антанты. Весь ваш Запад. Почему все забыли, кто был активным спонсором во вторую Мировую 1941-1945 годов? Американцы, Англичане, как минимум, спонсировали Гитлера. Это делалось, чтобы руками сумашедшего Адольфа нас уничтожить). Господи, да в какой год вступили в эту войну на нашей стороне наши "союзники"))). Они ждали и думали, кто победит и на сторону встать и с этого поиметь все дивиденты. Проиграли бы мы, Россия, нас бы на кусочки порвали дружно, вместе с Гитлером. Недаром, были переговоры с Даллесом генералов немецких о сохранении Германии на условиях Американцев. Когда проигрывать стали фашисты.. Но мы отчасти, отыграли ситуацию и не дали довести эту сделку. И подписали они капитуляцию. Но американцы оставили свое влияние в Западной Европе, в ключевых странах. И до сих пор американцы делают все, чтобы их влияние сохранялось. А мы сглупили, и не надо было выводить наши войска оттуда. Наши базы и наше вооружение. Это было великой глупостью. Мы отдали вашим западникам плацдарм для создания НАТО. И продвижения его к нашим границам. А остались бы мы там, никто бы не дернулся на Восток. Не развалился бы СССР. Мы сглупили, теперь будем все исправлять.

Well if he gets the WH again, let's hope he doesn't hire Bolton, Pompeo, etc. etc. He was an idiot to surround himself with these people.

It is just a pity that what he says is a sack of cr@p.

The man so unwoke he asleep at the wheel

Both serve the corporate donors, you simply can't get into power without these powerful groups backing you, people need to stop pretending any government will actually improve your life, its up to the individual to make his or her life better

Trump keeps being asked how. He can't answer the question because he doesn't have the balls to say he would let Russia win.

Yeah. I caught that. Most certainly not on the agenda that she had written down in front of her.

It's also not true. John acts more like a politician that an academic a lot of the time, just stating his opinion as "obvious" fact. I live in Europe and I remember very clearly how shocked people where when the helicopter, missiles and tanks went across the border into Ukraine. It was a complete sea change for a lot of people.

@@massemiable If you are watchnig what is unfolding in the Western media and thinking that Mearsheimer "stating his opinion" about propaganda and not vocalizing the truth, that's on you. Even Russian cats banned from competing. Nobody currently employing two healthy brain cells weren't surprised with Russia declaring a war either. It was building up for months with US sending arms to Ukraine without public notice and Russia arming near Ukrainian border.

@@massemiable ridiculously so and mostly due to propaganda. Most people didn't even know what was the capital of Ukraine the week before. Non-Western countries have a right to military interventions too and NATO is still occupying Kosovo so most people are sheep

@@massemiable I kept an eye on the daily updates in the war in donbass from 2014-2022, I was simply surprised it took this long for Russia to get openly involved. But nobody ever listened to the anti-kiev Ukrainians over there, clearly the west didn't value their lives and don't to this day. I honestly think westerners don't realize how many Ukrainians are fighting on the Russian side in this war, and if they are they're simply calling them Russians without any regard to their Ukrainian nationality. I have very little respect for the west for this transgression.

Russia hasn't changed its stripes since the 2nd world war it committed genocide then its committing genocide now and it doesn't care how many of its or Ukrainian citizens it kills to achieve its political aims

I thought the "democratic" West allows differences of opinion and that one shouldn't be surprised that differences of opinions exists and allowed unlike the autocratic communists. You mean to tell me the so called democratic West restricted differences of opinions and that you are surprised that this happened?

Mearsheimer is from Univ of Chicago, strongly in the camp for support of Russia. He's a traitor to free people and any neighbors of Russia, either compromised by weak academic rigor or Soviet ideological warfare that took hold in Uof Chicago long ago. He very accurately let slep Senator Obama's role in disarming Ukraine for Russia back in the 1990s, but presented that as a good thing.

Lol that’s an over statement. As a casual observer I have seen plenty of empathy with the Russian people. No one is shutting down mearshiemer. In fact he has become far more known to the public than ever before. All this crying about ‘russophobia’ and propaganda is a way of distracting from the basic facts that Russia invaded Ukraine. One is clearly the aggressor and the other is the victim. Let’s keep it real

Plenty of sympathy... you mean like getting statements from Russian tennis players that they either denounce Putin or renounce Wimbledon? How many times has Mearsheimer appeared on the BBC? You should many be observe less causally because your observations seem to be missing quite a bit.

Debt diplomacy.

BlackRock and Wagner Group have a lot in common.

Not the same. The u.s military spending was in a big decline until poopin went nuts.😮 Poopin stole 80% of russias wealth. Compare that!

​@@edwardmoore-kd5uq no they do not. Wagnut is a real army , blackrock is small.

BlackRock is the equivalent to the Nazi Einsatzgrubben.

She seemed very uninformed to me

To be more precise, Mearsheimer is a _19th-century_ cold clinical realist. He seems to not realise that we now live in the 21st century.

The problem with Mearsheimer is that he his approach, much like Putin's fails to adequately bake reasonably predictable human reactions into the final cake. Part of Putin's problem may be that he doesn't understand western language and cultures well enough to predict the outcome. Mearsheimer I suspect is just lost in cold analytical academics with too sharp a focus. I really think that part of Putin's impetus for the final decision to invade may have been Mearsheimer's analysis of the situation on RU-vid which they were referencing in the early days of the war.

@@blackwind743 I think Mearsheimer's whole system of beliefs can be distilled into 2 main points: 1. Thugs don't compromise on their demands. 2. Big thugs (e.g. Russia) are impossible to beat militarily. So, Mearsheimer seems to be wilfully blind to the evidence that negates #2, and when thugs _are_ beaten, #1 matters little. Hitler _also_ was uncompromising, but that did not prevent his military defeat.

@@gintasvilkelis2544 USA is the biggest thug of them all. China will probably be just as bad. Napoleon and Hitler both underestimated Russia. I think they regretted that. I don't think Russia can defeat Ukraine as long as we feed it. Of course, on their own, they would have lasted 1 week. But they won't loose it either. I think they will get pretty much what they wanted. Ukraine not joining NATO. Though that wouldn't have happened anyway. Such a poor and corrupt country. They don't qualify at all. And the Eastern parts will be "neutral". But I think there is a but. I don't think Putin and his men understood how hated they would be in the West. What a turningpoint this will be.

@@blackwind743 -You're absolutely clueless.

Burning the American flag and calling patriots fascist pigs didn’t help. Spitting on soldiers didn’t help. During gulf war 1 the peace demonstrators wanted USA to lose. Jesse Jackson was saying body bags will be filled etc. yup They sold the war due to low intellect anti-Americanism, same w/gulf war II. They didn’t make libertarian ot arguments against the war. However, the anti-American left lives government. They are not agitating for peace with China and Russia. They are not trying to disband cia and fbi. I know the good citizen was duped but the people opposed to what now appears to be influenced foreign policy were the enemy within and perhaps and I dunno that was by design to sell the wars

Like American Intelligence.

True

American credibility is the strongest in the world. There is a reason every country is willing to put its trust in the US and consistently benefits from that and is also why so many countries do not need large militaries so they can afford social programs and is the entire reason the global economy exists and part of why the dollar is the global currency. Your ego and ignorance doesn’t change anything.

@@midgetydeath LOL living in a dreamworld lalala

Yet they can somehow 'sell' their debt. Folks are willing to buy up US debt because 'America isn't credible?'

True and Biden's brain works fine and Putin is 2.5 metres tall.

Who did not respect the Minsk agreement was Putin

⁠@@bavariancarenthusiast2722 BS. Ukraine did not. Ex president Poroshenko and ex German chancellor Merkel even admitted that Minsk 2 accords were used by Ukraine to win time and to modernise and equip UA army

@@romanb.3816 Well she said that 2022 - anyway the Russians should get the hell out of the Ukraine.

@@bavariancarenthusiast2722 If NATO got out of Ukraine too that might work.

It may 'ring true' but it is not. Somehow, Trump has the Midas touch. Promises made, promises kept. MAGA PTL

@@dennisday2049 We literally saw Lindsay Graham cheer on Joe Biden's war in Ukraine after being sanctioned by Russia for helping Biden's administration spread propaganda throughout Europe, and we literally just saw Donald Trump live on Fox News in an interview with Hannity just complement Biden on the Ukrainian War and Trump scold Hannity for disrespecting Biden's age.

No, he's a 🤡

He can't explain the American angle though

@@dennisday2049 LOL. Health care for all? Troops out of Afghanistan? A peace treaty with North Korea? LOL.

NATO was not supposed to be dismantled. Who told you?

@andrewachholz7922 Nato was formed to withstand the USSR. USSR fell in 1992 and it was supposed to have been dismantled but instead of limiting it, they proceeded further East instead. The West and Military Industrial Complex decided otherwise.

@@tatianabrown6903 not true at all. What are your sources?

@@tatianabrown6903 Who says it was "supposed to have been dismantled"?

I think you must read your History in the 'Beano'...

I suppose... if you like one-sided interviews.

Only Putin lies and propaganda.

She had her moment, particularly with her comment about the feelings of the Ukrainian public.

​@@gordonipock9385 They are called interviews and not debates for a reason. But she can still ask additional questions without interrupting and speaking over a guest.

Most don't talk over the guests any more. You just haven't noticed.

Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya,,Somalia???

It's not about Trump. The military call the shots and there is nothing the public can do except to destroy the corrupted structure of both government and deep state.

EXACTLY!!

Bravooooo cine vrea războaie crime bombardamente bomba nucleară sincer este un criminal care seamănă cu tiranul criminal dictator măcelar sacal hitlerist pe nume PUTIN REPET PUTIN DACĂ TRUMP ESTE PRIETEN CU PUTIN IA SPUNETI VOI AMERICANILOR CE VA URMA SĂ FIE IN AMERICA ?

Ronald Cates :: It's too bad Imperial-Powers are not "Peacemakers".

@@cliffgaither Lets not try to stop a rapist by letting him rape the girl.

How?

@@LeMerch maybe you should ask Jesus and not me!

We already know what the deal is: Russia will annex everything east of the Dniper and the southern coast through Odessa; Poland will partition western Ukraine (it's historically Poland's anyway); and Ukraine will become a rump-state propped up by the WEF puppet states.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qkLh-4zWxO0.html

What propaganda like the fact that Russia invaded a sovereign country? Give me a break!

And Mearsheimer is the credentialed propagandist. What a joke.

John Mearsheimer is a genius 🙏🏽👏👏

Yes, what Fox News has done in the past 20 years is sickening.

@@amyrichard3203 Exactly. Fox is no different from all other mainstream outlets such as MSNBC, CNN…. They are pacifiers specialized for either right or left audiences.

NATO HAS contributed over $180 Billion. The CIA has its own secret budgets that even Congress cannot audit, so if you think its only what 'THEY' TELL U??? Id love to sell you ice, if your an Eskimo.

Where do you find that amount? All I see is figures around 70-80 b.

What about the $15B, Biden and his cronies fleeced the Ukraine out of???

​@@GlennRA3 it's far more than you've been told

It's all used weapons in theory Weapons on the road to a junkyard or a warehouse

Actually the older Ukrainians are less friendly to Russia. They grew up with stories of the famine and Stalin from their parents or grandparents. The younger generation doesn't have that connection to when their was major conflict. Your issue is with the Russian transplants from the Stalin era and the native Ukrainians.

@@Turamwdd Stalin was not Russian. We know the difference between Russians and communists. Ukrainian communists were horrible to us as much as any other communist.

​​​@@Turamwdd There was no stories of famine. At least not in the way you present it. The entire narrative of being a victim of an engineered famine spread in Ukraine only after the fall of the Soviet Union. There was no significant talk about it during the union for various reasons. As for the demographics in Ukraine in general it has nothing to do with age. Eastern Ukrainians in general are more pro-Russian. The more west you go geographically in Ukraine the more anti-Russian the population is. The most radically anti-Russian Ukrainians are traditionally from the most western parts of the country, completely opposite of where the war actually broke out. In the east there is millions of actual ethnic Russians(around 15% of total Ukrainian population) and pro-Russian, russian speaking Ukrainians. These majority of these people want nothing to do with Ukraine since the 2014 coup and the Ukrainian laws banning Russian language and culture that happened afterwards.

@@ceroid3752 Hello comrade botnik, The Holomodor actually happened. The red army under the orders of mass butcher stalin would search Ukrainian homes for food and confiscate it and punish the occupants if anything was found. All agricultural production was confiscated as well

Putin had ever rite to go in to protect the Russian speaking ppl in eastern Ukraine, if Mexico was doing that in south to USA residents u don't think the USA would do the same? Its a existential threat to Russia for Ukraine to join Nato..russia is on the right side of history USA Ukraine will never be.

Amazing guests, disastrous host!

She's not stupid, she knows plenty about propeganda as she actively takes Part in it. Her face was because mearshimer is deviating from the approved narrative and that is no longer allowed in Western "democracies". Just ask anyone who opposed covid narratives, anti abortion etc. Those opinions are not welcome in mainstream political opinions anymore

Mearsheimer engages intellectuals, scholars and pragmatists every single day who have a keen interest in being intellectually, scholastically and pragmatically informed of the circumstances of this conflict, which is frankly not what Freddy Gray and Kate grapple with. So it's very simple for Mearsheimer to shock these two newshounds with what amounts to a simple common sense argument. Many of the Spectator readers live in an idealised world of believing their democratic, liberal world can be shaped by a surfeit of their opinions within their narrow group and it's Freddy and Kate's job to perpetuate that notion. Otherwise (to be honest), how does the Spectator think it's going to sell newspapers? Politics and governance (whether it's within a democratic or despotic community) is made up of those who play a temporary and those who perform a permanent function in the State/Societal Contract. And Mearsheimer's simple thesis is we need to first look at that structure before we start pontificating from an ideological standpoint. Trump comes to the geopolitical party with a single, four year term behind him and the prospect of no more than another 8 years before he will be forced off the stage. Putin comes to the party with 23 years of hard political mileage and a tenure which may keep him in office until Trump is forced to retire his own presidency. The instrument of US governance, for whom Trump is completely reliant, are permanent civil servants who clearly do not agree with Trump and who will certainly take more than Trump's available two terms to win over. Putin has his civil servants in line with his view and they are perfectly aware of the limitations of ANY US president. Hence this discussion makes me picture John Mearsheimer as a man shooting fish in a barrel. His points are well and fairly made, but the fish (Spectator staff) don't really stand a chance. Good on the Spectator bringing an adult into the conversation - it is a breath of fresh air and I hope it gets traction. I, sadly, have little faith that it will. Good try tho

hahaha watched it too several times back and forth 😂

the host had the same painful expression when JM talked about propaganda and about the average Ukrainian view on Z.'s possible peace deal, - all remember only too well that Z. was elected on the issue of making peace with Donbass and the disillusion that followed

Like the Springtime mass missile attacks in Syria 2017 and 2018. Who was president?

That's why they got him out in 2020 lol he was changing too much. The millisecond Biden was installed everything returned to "normal" not a coincidence.

No, obviously. That is why he will not become president unless Russia is defeated. They would kill him before any threat to NATO (or American supremacy). The USA is neither a democracy nor a republic, but an oligarchy of globalists, with irrelevant elections creating illusions to placate the deluded public. Their mouldy "free world" facade is falling apart.

He would be killed by the CIA just like JFK who said he would get all Americans out of Vietnam.

@@brucealbert4686 does it matter? Neocons are neocons. All the same coin just different faces 🤣

The US should stop fanning the flames.

Tru. Most people aren't that stupid, whatever their class. And understand that Putin and Putinism is a menace. And if funding Ukraine to beat it is probably a good thing, rather than sending in the British Army.

True, but media/Government/the establishment pushing Russophobia is as bad as the Nazi's de-humanising the Jews in the 1930's. A dangerous game to play. A lot of comments you see are a complete demonstration of its effectiveness. Pure poison.

Um ... Christopher. Yes. UK working people ARE that stupid. But that is of no consequence. The greatest impediment to UK working people is they are irrelevant. And what makes them stupid is their belief that they are relevant.

Well informed and intelligent know Ukraine is not vital to USA, and largely discredit MSM(state control) as we know it. We are losing in economy and political aspects that don't serve interest of ordinary people any more, only billionaire ruling class.

The Russophobia thing is a kremlin talking point, they invented the term. Chelsea was owned by Abromvich, London is full of Russians, it's fantasy nonsense.

You don't have to be on the Kremlin payroll to be a Russian asset you just need to be taken in by Russian propaganda which the far Right in the US spread constantly. Trump was as stupid as they come he also has ADHD a man born into untold wealth which he pissed away constantly being a multiple bankrupt

Every idiotic moron believed, with every ounce of energy they could muster, that Trump was about to fold and run away from his responsibilities. Imagine if half of Biden's horrors had occurred during the former administration?

Yeah these false accusations which were brought up even at their meeting in Helsinki 2018 (their first meeting i think) really affected their relationship. If not face to face, then it sure did affect the American public by planting just another seed of mistrust into their heads. Which of course does affect politics decision

Why do you think it was false? Who "officially declared" it a hoax? It always struck me as manifestly true and was proved true at Helsinki. (a) Trump told the world that he'd asked Putin if he (Putin) had interfered in the 2016 election, that Putin had said "no" (surprise surprise) and that Trump couldn't think of any reason why Putin would lie about a thing like that. If true then Trump was arguably the only person on the entire planet who couldn't think why Putin would lie. (b) Trump and Putin held a private meeting. It consisted of only three people: Trump, Putin, and Putin's interpreter - Trump refused to allow the American interpreter in. There can only be one reason for this. Is your real name Sergei, and do you operate out of Moscow?

The Russia hoax underlies the fact that the establishment always wanted a war against Russia, and that Trump didnt want any part of it. Hillary Clinton pretty much promised a war with Russia during the campaign debates, and you'd better take her seriously when she promises death and destruction. Now they've got Ukraine doing their dirty work.

He hasn't got a clue. He doesn't understand that one country invaded another.

@@jonathanbowen3640 Do you understand that the US invaded Iraq (and Syria... and bombed Yugoslavia... and Libya...)?

If I make guns and you don't have the money to buy one, why would I give you one for free? MIC only makes sense if Ukraine were paying for our weapons, not when we're giving them away for free. Our economy is weak, we can't just give away free weapons. The payoff for us is taking over Russia and her resources.

Made up numbers. EU and USA has spent roughly equal on Ukraine. And EU buys a lot more US fuel now than before and much less Russia

And Nordstream 2 is pumping gas to Germany.

When Mearsheimer pushed back on Trump's leverage over Russia one of those times. Trump is Putin's useful idiot. But Mearsheimer has the whole NATO expansionism thing wrong. Putin's invasion of Ukraine has nothing to do with expansionism. It is Russian imperialism pure and simple.

Trump started the war in Ukraine back in 2017 for his imperialist war aims for Uniting Europe and seizing Russian military assets, he's not stopping the war, he's just saying things that are convenient.

A deal? You must be having a laugh. How can you make a deal with a man that cannot lie straight in bed? Any deal will be gladly received by Russia, who will then wait until the situation has died down and the West has forgotten, then push on again and again and again and again. Are you blind?

You're right. Most interviewers want to show how intelligent they are.. and they won't be quiet.

I am glad rhetoric has changed, before they discuss who will win and how to help Ukraine to win. Now they talk how to make peace agreement.

Please be serious. Her propaganda was showing throughout.

@@johnstrawb3521 Yeh, she had trouble digesting Mearsheimer's propaganda narrative.

I agree she did an excellent job

Joanna, you/we may not be interested in war - but war is interested in you.

"We, the people in America, hate it," but we don't protest to our congressmen and senators!

Money well spent to defeat Ruzzian Fascism. Hitler had to be stopped, and now Putin must be stopped

You are one person. You are not We the People. Russia invaded Ukraine. Until Russia leaves, there will be no peace. The only politician who started the war is Putin. Blame Putin.

We are not in Ukraine, we don't need to pull anything other than stop supplying weapons and a blank check to the most corrupt country in Europe to prolong the war and the suffering. If we threatened to pull the plug on the endless billions to Ukraine and offered to end the sanctions to Russia they could work out a peace deal pretty fast and save hundreds of thousands of Ukranian lives and be at peace with both Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine is going to lose regardless the only question is when and how much will be left of it. They have no chance of beating Russia even with Nato weapons. There is however a chance of continuing to escalate this until we are in WW3 with nuclear war a real possibility.

I'm not convinced Russia will win, but I think you're basically right regardless. What does the average person in Kiev or Lviv care if the Donbas is governed by corrupt politicians in Moscow or corrupt politicians in Kiev, especially when most of the people from the Donbas if forced to choose would probably choose Moscow anyway.

@@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558 Are you still not convinced?

@@alispeed5095 I haven't taken in much about how things have been going the last couple months (since I wrote my last comment) or since whenever the Ukrainian offensives began. From what very little I've taken in I've gotten the impression that Ukraine has made very negligible territorial gains with its offensives and that Russia has maybe made equivalent gains from more minor offensives (at least relative to the offensive on Bakhmut, for example.) As far as losses, I don't feel like there are any reliable sources for that information, but it definitely seems possible that Ukraine has taken heavy losses for negligible gains. Anything you would add to a two or three sentence summary? But based on what I've gathered, neither side seems to be able (at least not yet) to launch a dominant offensive. Until that happens and so long as the West continues to fund the war and so long as Zelensky and whatever hawks are pulling his strings remain in control of the Ukrainian government it seems there's plenty of potential for this war to just grind on long-term. I can imagine some of those things shifting to where Russia could start to dominate offensively. I don't really see any very plausible changes happening that would enable Ukraine to secure decisive battlefield victories apart from other armies joining in the fight, but even that would seem more likely to lead to WWIII and nuclear exchanges than successful Ukrainian offensives.

"Victory " for "Ukraine"(the nazis) will mean the(further) destruction of Europe. NATO is a criminal organization that needs to be abolished (and the general secretary, present and past tried for their crimes against humanity-Iraq,Afghanistan,Ukraine etc). Those who care for peace and human lives,do not ask for more weapons. Peace will come only if the american oligarchy is confronted/toppled by the American people who can stop provoking Russia,withdraw the nato expansion plans,and stop pretending that workers in usa have differences from the Russian workers.

@@georgesos Are you done?

Please stop. There is no path to Ukrainian victory. How can you not this this, at this late date?

Ukrainian victory would be liberating international recognised territories including Crimea. It could be achieved by military victory or Russia could be collapsed from inside.

​@@Blanka1100 ukraine is done

Congress would lose 80% of their campaign funding and grift.

Peace. War is a racket. Peace is bad for racketeers like Jeffrey's friends. You already know this. Remember what happened to John F? Remember when he tried to pull out of Nam? What did the racketeers do to him for threatening America and the world with a lasting Peace?

Trump would negotiate surrender as he did with Taliban. Trump is coward.

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Absolutely hell no to "independence" for the fake "DPR" and "LPR" and for allowing Russia to keep Crimea. That is as far as it gets from "a fair bargain for everyone". That's just a complete capitulation to Russia, rewarding them for their imperialist aggression and allowing them to steal everything they've been trying to steal. BTW, there are no "other ethnic Russian areas that have voted to join Russia". Crimea is the *only* place in Ukraine that has an ethnic Russian majority.

Donald Trump was a life long democrat.

@@big1boston so was I but not any more. What’s your point?

​@@singlespeedcrossbikeI've always been a lifelong republican but now will vote for best ... The republican party is too full of elites, progressives and neocons for my sensibilities. We need a real option in American politics, the uniparty solution is not working for your average citizen!

@@Eric_Blair I get it. I’m an independent. I’d love to have a viable third party. In 2016 I would have voted for anyone other than Hillary. Wasn’t necessarily a Trump fan but what choice did I have. But then on Inauguration Day when they started going after Trump I became aware that somehow he was viewed as a threat to the establishment. That got me interested and I became a semi fan. Now because the establishment hates him so I wish he wouldn’t run. But in all honesty if it comes down to Trump or Binden then once again you know how I’ll vote. But I agree we need a strong 3rd Party with that runs a impeccably honest candidate.

It's very simple. DeSantis backed off because of the opposition of donors, not the opposition of republican electorate. Trump doesn't care about pleasing donors because he knows there is no free lunch. Donors want favors in return for their money.

Once you start poodling it's awfully difficult to stop.

NATO alliance…but Europe is not a nation so no national interest

@@rdf098311 Oh I see what you did there, underwhelmingly clever.

To keep their overlords happy.

Stopping the spread of jihadism, preventing jihadis from having a secure base to expand their ideology, having a strategic ally nation in central asia for future when China grows...etc

You re-elect Trump, and it will be the last real election the US will have.

LOL he's not rich and he uses anything to fundraise off

He is rich, but he is not spending his own money, he is using donor money, just like everyone else

@@amateur_football9751 Only, other candidates do not sell "gold" coins and "Rocky" pictures of themselves. He is a grifter, through and through, but that is not the worst thing he is.

Trump is a toxic personification of this portion of the old saying....."You can fool some of the people all of the time.........

If we should ever get into a conflict with China, expect the grid, many rail lines, and many bridges would fall or not work.

That's buffoonish. China is incapable of expeditionary operations and has no capabilities for that. It's the U.S who has what? Over 30 bases on China's border alone.

No he isn't. He's a tankie and he's full of crap. This is the most righteous war America has been involved with since WW2.

Mearsheimer is a useful idiot for Putin. Eager to criticise the West at every opportunity but not the imperialist Russian regime

I don't disagree he's got gravitas, but such fawning

I have followed Prof Mearsheimer for a long time, watching many of his lectures since 2014. His Neo-Realism approach to international politics suffers from a few blind spots one of which is that he only considers the policies and actions of so called 'great powers'. There is some debate as to whether Russia is a great power, with an economy smaller than Italy's and a collapsing demographic, that is questionable. He also fails again and again to give agency to smaller powers, what do they want? The USA have failed to do this over and over again in the past, just as the European colonial powers failed to in the late 19th and early 20 centuries. Western 'propaganda'...if that's what it is, tells us that Ukraine just wants to be a free, liberal democracy and join the EU and NATO...but does it? What are they really fighting for? Is it a nasty form of nationalism that motivates them or a genuine desire to be free and not be another Belarus with a puppet government?

Mearsheimer is absolute scum who just thinks Russia should be able to do whatever they want. And so-called "realism" is actually the least realistic of all the schools of thought in international relations. The fact that they were able to get away with naming themselves "realists" was one of the greatest propaganda coups in history.

yes.most of peopel in world in fact are blidn to their goverment atrocities.Pskov ,,russian goverment spokeperson can say thing like this Russia, throughout all of its history, has never attacked anyone. i encounted host of russians who belive this.also host of turks who justify armen ian genocide or deny it and host of otehr blindness to ones own evil...

Doing what? Nothing?

@@usul573 expanding "democracy" destroying other countries

@@nick16569 What? Where’s that?

@@usul573 How is Libya doing? Have you seen how they are doing lately?

If history was to repeat it self we do know. Like when he withheld Ukraine's military aid at the same time Russia seized 5 of there ships. Collusion or not who knows. I bet his pet monkey Rudy knows.

@@sandmantk4901 --there was no collusion contrary to what desperate l! bt@rds still believe lol..

You might want to re-consider long time affects, not only short time. Of course US M.I.C. does have yet another reason to exist, you may sell some LNG to Europe, maybe even pull some companies over to the states. But that whole sanction policy made a bunch of countries work on an alternatives to USD being the leading and pretty much sole relevant currency. Petro Dollar days are over. Countries are seeing first hand, what happens if the West doesnt like you no more. Africa, South America and Asia, all 3 getting more confident and are willig to no more follow instructions from the West. China getting more influence in the mid-east and if they solve Iran-Saudi conflict just as well as bringing back Syria into the arab league, then that influence will grow just faster. The dependency on USD or rather say the importance of the USD will most likely shrink, with effects on your economy that might hurt.

Exactly. Multipolar world politics is gaining traction really fast with BRICS+ and other organizations emerging. Trade starts to shift away from the US$. Nobody has trust in the US politics anymore except the US vasalls.

@@computercrack hahahahahaha!!!

@@jasperchance3382 any meaningful to say? You don't like facts do you? Even long term "allies" like the Saudis are turning away from the petrodollar, they trade their oil with China in Chinese currency. Lol

None of that is a value

👍 AGREE

Indeed.

Any fool can stop a war by surrendering. The Ukrainians won't surrender whatever Trump does and Zelensky wouldn't be president if he started immediate peace talks while the Russians still occupied parts of the country. You don't tell allies, you ask and consult them. Most of them if not all do not want to stop sending military aid on the contrary they would send more if they had it.

Nice idea, but those ultra right nationalists won't allow that.

That's like saying we should allow all pedophiles to rape little children without resisting their efforts to ensure that at least the pedophiles don't kill them all.

trump himself created his own swamp of liars, sycophants, and corrupt cohorts !

Says the simple minded fed on anti system propaganda

Yes, no hysterics, no propaganda, our MSM should be more like russian.

@@hhKJgf1M8a0rzt8hP Well most of Mearsheimer's opinions on this conflict are propaganda.

Most people now know mass opinion does not matter, the MSM is still stuck in the 50s.

The interviewer had to interject her own very non-expert opinion on the feelings of the Ukrainian public, but otherwise, yes, refreshingly open and intelligent.

If you had some idea of the people leaving Ukraine... The refugees are not men but families without their husbands and sons.

Sure, Ivan, sure......

either that, or Russia should have bases in the Americas

Seems to be working just fine. What are you going on about?

Coming soon. Medvedev on the possibility of a Russian pre-emotive nuclear strike: "Europe has lost its mind. The US is generally acting in its pragmatic interests. They are not fighting themselves, they are making money. They are trying to wipe out a centuries-old enemy. As for Europe, for me it is an amazing story. They constantly heat up and inflame the situation with their decisions. In this situation they will provide aircrafts to the Kiev regime. Moreover, maybe they will also give them nuclear weapons. But then it will mean that a missile with a nuclear charge will come to them. There are irreversible laws of war. If it comes to nuclear weapons, a pre-emptive strike will be necessary. The Anglo-Saxons don't fully realise this and think it won't come to that. It will, under certain conditions.

“Don't Think That Your Geographical Location Will Save You: Lavrov Shocked the US with His Statement This statement was made on Friday and has already caused outrage in Washington. The representatives of the American establishment sitting in the White House were speechless by Lavrov's statement in the most direct sense of the word. So, answering journalists' questions, the Russian Foreign Minister bluntly stated that the United States would not be able to stand aside in the event of the outbreak of a global conflict, which Washington is so diligently provoking. Its geographical position will not save the United States. On the contrary, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which saved the United States during the Second and First World Wars, this time will not be the saviors of the United States but the executors of punishment.”

That idiot said “russophobia”. What a pathetic attempt to salvage his credibility. There is no such thing as russophobia as it implies an irrational fear. A state and a society that endorses savagery domestically and against their neighbors does not represent an irrational fear. Dr M is a disgraced idiot.

Trump is the man,that actually came through with most his promises.But you just watch CNN.They wouldn't give Trump any credit when it was due.(along with the rest of the MSM!

Tens of thousands of people coming together against the govt because the govt failed to execute people's mandate is not coup. Ukrainians threw out a leader bribed by putin to discard EU membership.

That is a lie. Most Ukrainians do not like Yanukovich since the Russos poisoned Yuschenko

@@MultiRingtail look at you, will fully embracing propaganda

@@alispeed5095 says the fake account who is probably an intern for a pro Russian firm

Simple as...

Now the Americans say "we made that agreement with the USSR, not Russia". What a bunch of C*%^s!

Russia prior to the Minsk accord, should of respected the Budapest memorandum, when Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons in return for security guarantees from the US, the UK and Russia!! The US and the UK are honouring the Budapest Memorandum, why is Russia doing the exact opposite?!

Borrel made a stupid argument. It will matter as a bad treaty won't end the hostilities. It will end the war but won't stop the aftermath of a perceived bad deal. Remember that a peace deal was reached in 2014 between Russia and Ukraine. 8 years later, war happened again. Is anybody really stupid enough to believe that a deal that occurred under those conditions would lead to "peace in our times?"

But he is more than willing to do that with China...

​@@jihigh482China has less nukes.

Lol. They were already heading that way during his Presidency.

You mean Biden actually has a vision??

@@stevenhenry5267 really? How?

Trump didn’t try to avoid it. Obama did. Trump did just as Biden is doing now.

...and why is China a threat? To whom exactly? Aren't the US (main) borders as far from China as they're from Russia? Economically? Are you kidding? Isn't industrial growth more or less natural process? There will always be countries who succeed and become powerful. Will US try to contain India? South Africa? Brasil? Btw a military aliance between China and Russia is impossible on many levels. And economic partnership is a normal thing - or else if anyone true ally of China, it's the US.

The latter is not a fact, but your speculation. You're not a telepath, you're not Putin's shrink, so you don't know what's going on in his head. It is a fact.

100%. Mearsheimer is shilling for Russia once again. He let it slip in this discussion how Senator Obama was already disarming Ukraine of its conventional weapons in 2005, then denied arms sales to Ukraine when he was in the WH. Guess who helped get Obama into the Senate? Guy came out if nowhere, zero political history, bam...Senator. Council for a Livable World. Soviet front group started by Szilard in 1962 after Soviets warned him US counterintelligence was zeroing-in on him. He switched from providing nuclear technical data to ideological warfare under an anti-nuke front non-profit, which uses funds to run pro-Soviet/Russian moles for office. Guess who got Biden into the Senate in 1972? Council for a Livable World.

Yep.. 👍

Which is why Ukraine needs to enter NATO IMMEDIATELY after the war ends - whether they get in having reclaimed all of its lost territory or if they get in with whatever they are able to keep and/or reclaim, it doesn't matter. As long as Ukraine enters NATO with at least something left.

@@bearpaw72 Absolutely 👍

Maybe you are the ignorant one. Have some respect for others opinions.

this statement is unclear.

@@KennyG-qh8jc he dont like to see people who dont agree with him. That is it.

@@heyhoe168 Dude probably thinks truck drivers decide US foreign policy, lol.

I love seeing the "Me smart" comment 😅👏👏👏👏👏👏

lmao😂🤡

There is only 1 way to end this war --- get all ruzzian orks out of Ukraine. I can reassure you 99 percent of ruzzians don't mind to nuke you

But what would that win win be? On Ukraine's end, would they have to give up 20% of the land that Russia currently occupies after losing Crimea a decade earlier? All the land that Russia annexed was a decent chunk of Ukraine's GDP. On Russia's end, if they pull out and don't keep that 20% they would lose credibility around the world, waste billions, and lose the friendly DPR/LPR regions, a coup might happen in Russia. Really reallyyyyy hard to have a win win situation here

Om det ble fred ville det latt millioner av kvinner, barn, gamle å syke slippe å leve i frykt. De okkuperte områdene i øst har jo befolkningen som har vært utsatt for folkemord av Zelenskji regjeringen siden 2014. Nå viser det seg at samtidig som Zelenskji regjering sender fattige syke også psykisk syke ut for å kjempe for fedrelandet. Samtidig om rike vellykkede mennesker i samme land kan betale seg ut av krigen. Så det korrupte landet lar de fattige å syke bli ofret på den store løgnen om at Russland er agresatoren å Ukrainere er demokratiets siste utpost. I USA hvor folk risiker å miste alt di har om di blir alvorlig syke. Hvor folk som er psykisk syke lever på gata i en pappeske. Folk spesielt fargede bli fratatt friheten for resten av livet, for ikke voldelige lovbrudd. USA sin høyest rett sitter voksene utdannede mennesker å sender barn å ungdom til fengsel livet ut. USA som har vært landet som verden så opp til klarer ikke å behandle barn rettferdig. For nettopp det at man er barn å gjør en alvorlig handling skal jo statusen som barn gjøre at personen pga dette blir sett på som mindre forbrytersk fordi barn forstår ikke konsekvenser av det di gjør, å heller ikke kan sette seg inn andre sin lidelse. Det som er underlig er jo også hvis et barn har mistet så mye selvkontroll at det gjør grusome ting , da kan USA sitt rettsvesen ta fra barnet sitt ekstra rettsvern pga alvorligheten av handlingen. Så om et barn gjør noe graverende alvorlig mister di vernet som barn, å får ingen vanlig behandling. Så ting som barn gjor fordi dem ikke ser konsekvenser bli gjort til gjennomtenkt. Å når ondskapen gjerningen demoniseres så mye så mister samfunet evnen til å vise forståelse. Jesus sa at alle barn var like velkommen i himmelen. Altså et barn trenger ingen tilgivelse ingen frelesbønd for å komme til himmelen. For alle barn tilhører Herren. Så istede for å bruke penger på at flere folk skal sendes i krig, prøv å rett opp alle deres sosiale å mellommenneskelige problemer. Bruk pengene på helsehjelp å utdannelse. Slutt å berøv barn rett til et likeverdig liv, fordi di feilet som barn. Så ja kansje Trump fikser dette på et blunk. Hadde aldri trodd at jeg ville ønske Trump noe mere tid rampelyset. Men etter at krigshisseren Biden med sine svekkede mentale evner er livsfarlig for verdensfreden . Å når flertallet av gamle sovjetiske stater har blitt Nato medlem, blir det bare dumt i si at Russland er agresatoren. USA å Nato har nok sett for seg at dem skulle kjøre på med propaganda av Ukraina som demokratiet forkjempere. Sannheten er jo at Ukrainas ledere beriker seg på en hvær mulighet. Bruker elite soldater dvs fascister leiesoldater å menn som liker vold å spenning, resten er syke fattige mennesker som Zelenskji lett ofrer. Åpn opp øya å se sannheten.

@davidchang5265 It is tough. I am wondering whether there might be a deal possible with these components: (a) Crimea recognized as Russian; (b) Russia withdraws from all other Ukrainian territory; (c) Ukraine joins NATO; (d) occupied Donbas becomes a UN protectorate for 10 years, after which its status is determined by referendum; (e) all sanctions are lifted; (f) no reparations; (g) no war crimes tribunals. I think Putin, Biden, and Zelensky would all hate this deal with about equal fervor, which suggests to me that it could actually be a good deal.

we should just take him away

The Kremlin likes it. They share the same values.

@@robbas_krk1510 ANY advocate of Realist theory knows of & respects Mearsheimer's contribution to international relations. Mearsheimer's theories transcend national political boundaries.

@@karl5056 To become a 'national treasure', he should have remained a theoretician. But he chose to be the voice of Kremlin propaganda.

@@karl5056 Yes. Had US foreign policy regarding Ukraine coincided with Mearsheimer's analysis and recommendations back in 2015, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians would be alive today. Both Nato and Russia would enjoy a buffer state easing tensions in the region and the Ukrainian people could have enjoyed economic prosperity as a natural intermediary in trade between Russia and the European Union. Foremost in his analysis was considering an option that would benefit the people of Ukraine. And yes, Henry Kissinger agrees with Mearsheimer. Ukraine is of vital strategic interest to Russia, and there was no similar strategic interest for the US.

@tedtrash Buffer state? Sorry can't buy what you are trying to sell. Putler couldn't allow any type of embryonic democracy on his borders...too bloody close as it would allow the people of Russia to view an alternative to their sociopathic criminal midget's view of his empire.