John Mearsheimer

You're not thinking about a two-state solution.

You're thinking about an occupation that's not going to end.

And the question is, how do you deal with the Palestinians, given what's just happened?

Well, it was there.

Was he the person who was going to take advantage of it?

I don't think so.

Yeah, I think just on Ukraine, we should not have pushed Ukraine to join NATO.

Sure.

And once the war started, we should have worked overtime to shut it down immediately.

March, yeah.

March, right.

And you remember, by the way, not to go back to Ukraine in great detail –

In the fall, early fall of 2022, the war starts February 2022, there's March 2022, which we've talked about, which is the negotiations.

In the fall of 2022, I think it was in September,

And the Ukrainians had won two major tactical victories, one in Kherson and the other in Kharkiv.

And at that point in time, General Milley, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, now is the time to negotiate because this is the high watermark.

for the Ukrainians.

Milley understood that things were only going to get worse.

And the White House shut Milley down and said, we're not negotiating.

So we have blown a number of opportunities here to head this problem off at the pass.