John Mearsheimer Warns Europe Is Heading for Strategic Disaster

And the fact is that President Trump is basically incompetent when it comes to doing diplomacy. And when it comes to running the ship of state. He said he was going to shut down the Ukraine war. He failed. He said he was going to shut down the Gaza war and then the Gaza genocide. He failed. He said he's going

to shut down the Iran war. He failed. He said he was going to win the Iran war. He failed. So, President Trump has done, if you look carefully, a terrible job at using those levers that he has to bring these various wars to a conclusion. And here we're talking, of course, mainly about the Ukraine war.

I believe he could have shut the war down. He could have used some of those levers that you described in your question to me. There's no question about that, but he did not. And part of it has to do with the fact that the Europeans resisted and the foreign policy establishment in the United States resisted, but he

understood that was going to be the case going in. And he had he had a lot of levers that he could have used if he were a really a clever strategist to shut down the Ukraine war, but he never came close. It's very important to understand that. He never came close to shutting down the Ukraine war, and

Putin, by the way, wanted to shut the war down. And he wanted to accommodate Trump, but Trump couldn't >> Professor Mearsheimer, the war in Ukraine lasts now since more than 4 years. Many observers, including yourself, had expected that in 2025 some decisive turn of the war might take place. However, this hasn't happened.

Why according to you has the war lasted so long? What are the underlying reasons? >> I think there basically two reasons. One is that the Europeans and to a lesser extent the Americans have continued to back Ukraine in major ways. They've continued to provide Ukraine with weapons and with money. In a sense the Europeans and the