{"id":54734,"date":"2025-08-24T12:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=54734"},"modified":"2025-08-25T03:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:27:45","slug":"john-mearsheimer-on-ignoring-brute-facts-end-of-the-line-for-diplomacy-with-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/24\/john-mearsheimer-on-ignoring-brute-facts-end-of-the-line-for-diplomacy-with-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer on Ignoring Brute Facts: End of the Line for Diplomacy with Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 20 August 2025, I was on <em>The Duran<\/em> with Glenn Diesen and Alexander Mercouris. We talked mainly about how European leaders and President Zelensky continue to act toward Russia (and the United States) in ways that make little strategic sense \u2014 given the realties on the battlefield and well-established Russian demands for ending the war. Watching them in action is a head-scratching exercise.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SFfOmTEXw5A?si=_B14D7WvfcDnmyP7\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/\">John\u2019s Substac<\/a>k.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 20 August 2025, I was on The Duran with Glenn Diesen and Alexander Mercouris. We talked mainly about how European leaders and President Zelensky continue to act toward Russia (and the United States) in ways that make little strategic sense \u2014 given the realties on the battlefield and well-established Russian demands for ending the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1054],"class_list":["post-54734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54739,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54734\/revisions\/54739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54734"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=54734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}