The ever-provocative and very well-informed John Mearsheimer appeared a second time in a few days on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now!, along with a Ukrainian social democraty, Denys Pilash. (1)
Monday’s meeting in the White House really was a kind of meeting featuring the US, Ukraine, and collective “Europe.” Not the whole EU, but its top official, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, was part of the European group.
Mearsheimer remains highly dubious that any immediate peace settlement is highly unlikely.
Russia doesn’t take the talk about “NATO-like” security guarantees very seriously at the moment. It makes negotiating sense for Ukraine to continue to insist on that. But it’s not likely to happen in the immediate future.
But the indications from the EU countries are that they will continue to provide military and diplomatic support for Ukraine, even if Trump somehow manages to wash his hands of the whole thing.
Pilash tries at the end to make an argument against Mearsheimer "realist" brand of foreign policy analysis. But he doesn't have time to get out more than a couple of bullet-points in this exchange.
Notes:
(1) Will Russia-Ukraine War End with Diplomacy or on Battlefield? John Mearsheimer vs. Denys Pilash. Democracy Now! YouTube channel 08/14/2025. <https://youtu.be/U6C93pCdCHA?si=Ei_pEvZGb1vFCmaR> (Accessed: 2025-19-06).
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