{"id":57689,"date":"2026-02-20T06:49:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=57689"},"modified":"2026-02-20T06:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:50:16","slug":"john-mearsheimer-asks-is-a-peace-deal-in-ukraine-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/20\/john-mearsheimer-asks-is-a-peace-deal-in-ukraine-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer asks: Is a Peace Deal in Ukraine Possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/is-a-peace-deal-in-ukraine-possible\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 19 February 2026, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft hosted a debate between me and George Beebe, who is the director of grand strategy at Quincy. Emily Jashinsky of UnHerd moderated.<\/p>\n<p>George argued that it is possible to fashion a peace agreement between Russia and its three adversaries: Europe, Ukraine, and the US.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, I argued that no such deal is possible and the war will be settled on the battlefield. We will then get an armistice which would effectively produce a frozen conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Even though George and I disagreed on some key points, it was a pleasure engaging him in a rational-legal debate on this important subject.<\/p>\n<p>Quincy took a poll before the debate and then after the debate to determine which of us moved the debate in his direction. I won\u2019t spoil the surprise for you by reporting the results.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CuMGlRo3TMA?si=ygfL03FYV7ZEOS51\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from John&#8217;s Substack: On 19 February 2026, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft hosted a debate between me and George Beebe, who is the director of grand strategy at Quincy. Emily Jashinsky of UnHerd moderated. George argued that it is possible to fashion a peace agreement between Russia and its three adversaries: Europe, Ukraine, [&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-57689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57689","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=57689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57694,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57689\/revisions\/57694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57689"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=57689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}