"We are the Bad Guys" John Mearsheimer: Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, and the collapse of Western Superiority

I I have been very busy sadly busy at both ends. Uh you know two different sets of intelligence services. This is almost a parable for for diplomats, right? You you're kind of disliked by both disliked by both sides. Disliked by Russian intelligence, disliked by British intelligence. But maybe that's just maybe that's just the fate of the

diplomat, right? >> We live in a crazy world. That's all I can say. We do indeed. So the big dominant question for me right now is I mean if you look on YouTube any day of the week you'll find oh Russia's winning or you'll find Ukraine's winning. You'll find you know the empire's dead and

you'll find Trump saying that the United States is winning. Now we don't need to kind of rehearse the arguments of who's winning and who's not winning. What what appears to me is that big changes in great power politics are taking place right now and in the inability to declare outright victory uh on either side particularly on the side

of the US and its kind of European partners they now seem to be in a cycle of actually you know polishing failures is how I like to like to describe it. I mean, what's your read on on on the the tactics that uh that the US and the Europeans are using to kind of maintain

what to many people appear to be actually losing wars, which nevertheless they still describe as winning wars. >> Well, just very quickly, uh there's no way either side can win a decisive victory here. Uh I think at this point in time it's absolutely clear uh to anyone with a triple digit IQ that

Ukraine is not going to decisively defeat Russia. Uh and I think it's clear to increasing numbers of people that Russia is going to win that war, but it's not going to be a decisive victory. the idea that Ukraine is going to completely collapse, Russia's going to occupy all of the country and that's the