John Mearsheimer
speaker
2,303 appearances
7 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2023
last heard 28 May
John Mearsheimer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They thought that our security umbrella that was over their heads was a reliable one.
But the events since February 28th.
have shown that that was not the case, that the United States could not protect them, that those US bases in the region were vulnerable, and that moving forward, they have to think seriously about how to provide for their own security and not rely on the United States in any meaningful way.
They have now seen what happened when they relied on the United States.
They got clobbered.
And there is always a threat these days that they'll be eliminated as functioning countries if the war really heats up and the Iranians go after their desalination plants and their energy infrastructure.
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Well, I think you have to separate the war on the ground from the air war.
And when I talk about the air war, I'm talking about the strategic bombing where the Ukrainians are using drones and missiles to strike deep into Russia.
And the Russians, of course, are doing the same thing vis-a-vis Ukraine.
That's the air war.
And then there's the war on the ground.
There's no question that with the coming of drones, it's very difficult to make rapid progress on the ground.
But the Russians are nevertheless making progress in Ukraine.
The idea that Ukraine has turned the tide on the battlefield and is rolling the Russians back or will someday roll the Russians back is not a plausible argument.
The Russians are winning on the ground.
And you want to remember that they've already conquered 20%, roughly 20% of Ukrainian territory.
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