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100 sats \ 4 replies \ @anon 26 Nov 2025 \ parent \ on: Ukraine agrees to full terms of US's proposed peace proposal Politics_And_Law

Prof John Mearsheimer, famous geopolitical theorist, has said time and again that Ukraine is going to lose the war of attrition and that Trump doesn't want it to take the blame for it. How to let Ukraine lose without being accused of abandoning them entirely?

  1. Propose a peace plan that the Russians will accept (improves US-Russia relations)
  2. Sell weapons to the EU so that they can supply them to Ukraine (the US never abandons its allies)
  3. Leave the final decision and long-term consequences to the EU (so the US can gracefully pivot its attention to China)

Art of the Deal baby!!

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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 26 Nov 2025

I often wonder if Mearsheimer is a third-party-fulfilling prophecy. As in even if he's wrong, he's made right when possible.

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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 26 Nov 2025

Mearsheimer predicted the current Ukraine-Russia war 10 years ago.
Very few people in the US state department or European parliament subscribed to his thesis at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4

The Munk debate from 2022 between Mearhsheimer (strucutural realist) and Michael McFaul (color revolution proponent/architect) is worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhgWLmd7mCo

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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 26 Nov 2025

What is that supposed to mean?

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 26 Nov 2025

That he's being heard.

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