On 18 December 2025, I was on the Duran with Glenn Diesen and Alexander Mercouris. We talked at great lengths about the surreal diplomacy the West is conducting with Russia and Ukraine and what this portends for the future. The answer of course is nothing but trouble — deadly serious trouble — for a long time to come.
John J. Mearsheimer, PhD, is an American professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. More recently Mearsheimer has attracted attention for co-authoring and publishing the article The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, which was subsequently published as a book.
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