Why Russia-Ukraine War May End In A Frozen Conflict & Why US Should Focus On China: John Mearsheimer

Is a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine on the cards? No, says American political scientist John Mearsheimer. The renowned international relations analyst says that the best the world can hope for at this stage is a frozen conflict. He added that the differences between the two countries do not only involve territorial matters but also the status of Ukraine vis-à-vis the West. Watch this exclusive interview where Professor Mearsheimer also explains the implications of Putin’s decision to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, the Russia-China friendship and who could emerge as the big winners of the conflict.
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[@terryradford8053]

“When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.” - Chinua Achebe

[@chriswong9158]

Henry Kissinger Quoted: “To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.”

[@tonymills5086]

Okay, when good men do nothing... Evil will prosper, let us not be devoid of the fact this is a conflict Good versus evil, the world should hope that the good will conquer the evil! God is good! (You may not believe in God, or his sovereignty) truth is the Earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof....

[@larryzigler6812]

@@chriswong9158 To he and Nixon !!!!! Dummy

[@larryzigler6812]

No brothers are fighting here, Ivan.

[@felipe-vibor]

​@@tonymills5086 depending on who you lump as good or evil

[@thomastruong8382]

Zakka Jacob is an excellent host. Not only did he raise real good questions for his host to answer, but also the entire interview was very well paced. Thank you both, Zakka and the Professor!

[@Didmasela]

Thomas Truong, I agree with you 100%. Zakka Jacob is one of my favourable tv hosts on geopolitical events and debates. He is an excellent host because he asks very good and interesting questions and allows his discussants to answer all the questions without interrupting them.

[@theselector4733]

Not really. He doesn't know very much about the topic and only asked very generalised questions. The war didn't start last year like he said, it actually began in 2014.

[@jhanavkant3038]

Also bring Sri Chris Hedges and George Galloway on your forum. It was great to listen Prof. John Mearsheimer

[@chriswong9158]

Many thanks... George Galloway great debater..

[@themtoniraniremaxbroker2447]

Very Good Line of Questioning by the Host and Excellent response by one of My Favorite Mr John Mearsheimer, This Man is Brilliant!! , Many Thanks from Canada!!!

[@ericyeo805]

Correction on the statement of, "no one country is challenging the US hegemony after the second world war" is not appropriate to point a finger at China by them based on their understanding. China did not stand up on that position but only because they were threatened on their territorial as well as Taiwan's interference and defense. Any countries under China's situation and the US politicians behaviours and agendas will react without difference, to protect its sovereignty and not like the speakers both mentioned.

[@typicalKAMBlover21]

That’s what Mearsheimer always says: 1. in the great power struggles one side’s defense will always seems to be offensive to the other side. It works both ways. 2. China exceptionalism will just be the same as American exceptionalism: imagining that China is a special civilization that won’t go aggressive unless forced to do so.

[@thomastruong8382]

The Professor mentioned a few times 'the threat from China'. Frankly, I failed to understand what the Chinese threat is about. China is huge in terms of land and population. They must create a large and sophisticated army to match it. Taiwan is universally recognised as part of China. But so far Beijing has refrained from using force to reunify Taiwan with the mainland. The threat, in my view, is China overtaking other economic great powers. Is that a threat? or just a perception from its begrudged economic foes?

[@comingviking]

@@typicalKAMBlover21 Yes, that is probably the reason why the US has encircled both China and Russia with bases halfway around the world from their own fairly impregnable borders. No, I do not buy that for a second. In general terms, perhaps, for situations when you have two neighboring nations building up their defenses at borders. Not in the case of US vs the world. They wish to stay the worlds only superpower and to be able to dominate everybody else with preponderous power and full spectrum dominance. That is not defensive in any reasonable definition of the word.,

[@typicalKAMBlover21]

@@comingviking lol agree, now imagine one day China becomes the biggest economy that has dominated the world for 50 years, I believe China will do the same. Just look at what the wolf warriors are saying:”those who dare to insult the great Chinese civilization, no matter how far, shall be executed”. At certain point all behavior that doesn’t comply with the super power’s will is an insult that needs to be defended against. It doesn’t have anything to do with Americans, it has everything to do with being human. We are an arrogant specie. We brag and demand everyone’s worship when we are strong and dominant.

[@jamesgornall5731]

​​@@comingvikingreponderance of power only gets you so far, the USA cannot ramp up military spending ad infinitum and expect to get great returns from that expenditure. They might not be corrupt selling tank fuel etc but bloating staffs with functionaries, having 2 star generals playing golf in their offices with nothing to do, these are different forms and characteristic of bloated bureaucracy

[@user-dy3tb7rp3h]

Mearsheimer made the best predictions since 2014 on Ukraine.

[@Cryptantha]

Try General Ben Hodges. He said Russia was going to invade Ukraine, and a few days later, they did. He said Kherson would be freed before Christmas, and it was liberated November 11. Now he says Crimea will be free by August. Crimea is not attached to Russia, except by the Kerch Bridge. Bomb that again, and cut the two roads from Ukraine to Crimea, and Crimea will be under seige. They can't get supplies. Sounds like a plan to me. Cut off Crimea and then bomb the bases.

[@dro355]

lol why, the Ukrainians would have told you in 1991 that russia would try to invade them. You need to understand that russian doctrine and mindset sees Ukraine and Ukrainians as "little russians". They're imperialist, Meirsheimer didnt predict a damn thing.

[@tugbars4690]

@@dro355 cope harder.

[@pulse833]

Prof. Mearsheimer is honest intellectual! Very nice to see him invited!

[@faisalhusein227]

Nice analysis Mr John Mearsheimer

[@philippirrip8761]

Never underestimate Sleepy Joe’s ability to screw things up.

[@hugodiazgarcia1266]

Congratulations to Prof. John Mearsheimer for his insightful analysis about why Russia-Ukraine War may end in a frozen conflict and why US should focus on its relatinoship with China..

[@ericturner6662]

Agree with everything he says except that I don't think the Ukraine war drove Russia and China together. They were moving toward each other way before the war (e.g. integrating payment systems in order to move away from SWIFT, formation of BRICS alliance which is now seeing many other countries want to join it). The war and the sanctions have just sped the process up.

[@jiritichy7967]

USA treated Russia as an enemy instead of cooperating with her to help democracy growth there which pushed Russia closer to the real USA adversary, China.

[@arielzajac]

2008 it was the year of the bucharest summit when nato announced that they welcomed georgia and ukraine. Long before the war started.

[@sergeybeloklokov]

They just new long time ago that this time will come one day.

[@emilio2647]

@ericturner6662 I seems like Taiwan will be another Ukraine 2.0

[@ashleylaurin6531]

@@emilio2647 Garland Nixon’s twit pretty well confirmed your assertion. However, China is 10 times stronger than Russia, and that Taiwan is an island which China can easily block all assess from air and sea. Besides, China had made it very clear, it prefers a peaceful reunification with Taiwan, but if the Taiwan regime chooses to became another Ukraine, then China’s unification by force is not an invasion like the Russian’s attack on Ukraine, rather, it will be a resumption of the unfinished civil war.

[@barumbadum]

The best IR scholar alive

[@chriswong9158]

Listen to George Galloway, if you want the truth...

[@anarabbasov8634]

But India and China both are in BRICS. This is possible when wisdom rules.

[@anarabbasov8634]

@@purvika2711 because the West thinks so? Who cares😀

[@justanotheroldguy738]

Yeah, that was the one thing I didn't agree with. I think BRICS+ is working to replace the dollar as world currency. This is far more a threat to US than Ukraine/Russia War or even China.

[@calin6327]

What good is brics lol

[@anarabbasov8634]

@@calin6327 what is bad lol

[@nicoljane3083]

I'm looking forward to hearing more about their new currency hopefully this will be mentioned at their next summit in August or maybe sooner.

[@tesfayekenea8533]

Tks for bringing one of the distinguished authorities on the matter! I was yearning to hear from him!

[@larryzigler6812]

Short bus ?

[@tesfayekenea8533]

@@larryzigler6812 A nickname?

[@Mman.]

I agree with you. I’ve also been curious regarding Mearsheimer’s thoughts on the current state of the conflict. As usual, I was not disappointed.

[@19SaD82]

I had a good laugh when seeing the thumbnail for this video. "The biggest winners of this conflict are...John Mearsheimer" I knew it! He's a winner type!

[@bijoydas449]

Mr. 19SaD82 ... Prof. John Mearsheimer has come to limelight in this Rus-Ukr mess for his truthful analysis of the situation. He is ofcourse famous long before the war by virtue of his knowledge. I found him the best political analyst of our age.

[@19SaD82]

@@bijoydas449 Mr. Bijoy Das Prof. John Mearsheimer is, unfortunately for him, turning into Prof. John Alzheimer as he seems to forget in which year we're living in. Somehow he is still under the impression we would be in 1970+. Stalin is long dead, the Soviet Union collapsed a long time ago, Russia devolved into what those union states were in the time of the Soviet Union itself: A pale cast for actual nations - economical desasters. Run down, corrupt nations that wouldn't have any chance in life to become actual strong nations. This Russia is since some decades. A professorial title doesn't protect you from getting blinded. And Mearsheimer is as blind as anyone can be when it comes to Russia. I advice you: Listen more to people who actually live in Russia. They know what they are talking about. And what they have to say is the complete opposite of what western people have to say who don't acknowledge the 21st century actually being here.

[@brett-gx3fw]

Yeah he gets to push his anti american propaganda on rt and cgtn and global times and make cash grifting

[@chriswong9158]

Funny how much has change and new players are on the board that John Mearsheimer does not see nor mentions.

[@chriswong9158]

@@bijoydas449 and yet, he still see China the worldly war leader of the world and yet, China had not exported war since 1979. One question, one would ask him if by chance.... Prof. John Mearsheimer, did you see BRICS+

[@marcoborraz3763]

Great interview, excellent work by Zakka Jacob. It´s always a pleasure and illuminating to hear Dr. John Mearsheimer´s wise and solid comments.

[@localboss2014]

Good one. As always Prof. John Mearsheimer speaks sincerely of what he believes judging from his vast knowledge and philosophical perspective. I've watched his futuristic speech delivered in 2015 in University of Chicago anticipating this current Russia-NATO conflict. He is a great philosopher. 🙏

[@micamika8844]

Respect to Prof Mearsheimer, But philosophers never where right how a war ended!

[@sirfrancis9619]

Funniest thing I've read all day..... I certainly wouldn't buy shares from his tips, based on the accuracy of his political/military predictions

[@aussiepatriot]

Russia hasn't won a war in 100years, what makes you think he's right. Mearsheimer is a legend in his own mind, and nobody else

[@aussiepatriot]

Best philosophers to listen to in this war are Professor Mark Milley and Dr Lloyd Austin

[@localboss2014]

@@aussiepatriot Haha...you people never read history that's why you talk like this. In ww2, Hitler forces launched a surprise attack on Russia (Soviet Union) in June, 1941. The Nazi forces reached at Kyiv occupying the eastern parts. Russia launched counteroffensive in mid-November, 1942 and the Nazi Forces surrender to Russian forces unconditionally in 7th (West) and 9th (East) May, 1945. In ww2, Russia lost 5.8 million of soldiers but sill defeated Hitler forces. And that's Russia!!

[@me3883]

US will do anything to hinder India-Russia relations even if it gravely hurt India. In fact, the more any country is in trouble, the more beneficial it is for US - cheap labor, rich resources for a penny, brain drain, organ donation, etc, etc

[@matsforsberg6287]

India with the British empire in their mind, would never let the US influence one inch of it´s autonomy. They by gas and oil for one quarter of the price that US charges EU for.. USA as usual is committing a huge armed robbery. This time they won´t get away with it.

[@JerichoMahesa]

BHULSYITS 💩

[@tedzehnder961]

If the USA was hindering India they would sanction India too.India should go ahead and buy inferior Russian weapons to defend itself against China. HaHa. While Russia and China make a military pact?What happens when Russia refuses to sell spare parts? Or maybe tells China how to defeat the fancy equipment? If anything, Indians have bought into the Russian propaganda and it`ll cost them in the end.USA believes in fair play not back stabbing imperialism.

[@DipakBose-bq1vv]

You are absolutely correct as the USA is the blood -sucker. It has never helped India but was the cause of most of our problem.

[@manjunathmnm]

​​@@JerichoMahesa you are bulltsgut

[@fuzzybear6191]

I agree with so much of what John Mearsheimer says. On the issue of Russia being a weak great power, Russia has no pretence towards dominating Europe. Nor did they want to 'invade' Ukraine (we should look back to 2014, when the US backed coup took place and Russian efforts to settle via Minsk; followed by Russia slowness to build up to mobilisation). I don't think the US would have been able to invade a country as large and miltarily defended as Ukraine (though of course, they didn't need to i.e. coups and they the ones having built Ukraine up militarily). My point being, whether one is weak or strong should be placed in the context of one's known/ observable intentions and goals. Also, it is worth noting, that we can see by events in Ukraine, that Russia are militarily formidable, easily on a par with if not more adept than the US in terms of conventional war. It has been a revelation. Russia have drawn the line, US/ NATO in truth have no answer.

[@stephenjenkins7971]

Russia demanded that NATO leave former Soviet Bloc countries for peace despite that being expressly against their wished. Russia's history of imperialism is long and it has not stopped.

[@krishan6331]

Good interview

[@liberty-matrix]

Jinping: 'Change is coming that hasn’t happened in 100 years. And we are driving this change together.' Putin: ‘I agree'!

[@donaldkasper8346]

Yeah in their own minds.

[@donaldkasper8346]

Change is coming and these two assholez are going away.

[@luisromanlegionaire]

@@donaldkasper8346 Truth hurts dont it dollar puppet, just wait for your hyperinflation to kick in.

[@donaldkasper8346]

@coro Xi said Putin gets Ukraine and China gets Taiwan. However, Taiwan sits out in front of China's shipping lanes. It launches missiles to start sinking cargo vessels, trade with China comes to an end and China starves. Xi will go there anyway because he is a pig farmer and "engineer" for his background.

[@clemfarley7257]

China Russia Saudi Arabia Iran and North Korea are great nations.

[@tyn6211]

There's something disheartening about seeing the world as a Risk board.

[@albertgrant1017]

Excellant question !

[@fresatx]

Yes... But it produces better outcomes than hope/ideology

[@WDLC1911]

Read Zbigniew Brzezinski’s book **THE GRAND CHESSBOARD**

[@numb48.]

Never think a patient man is a weak man.

[@1antag0nist53]

Would it be fair to say that this is biased from an Indian perspective as India would gain from the US focusing more on China? Seeing that Crux is an Indian channel.

[@PELEGON1]

Yes.

[@knightatdawndonbynight8432]

It may be biased but any levelheaded neutral observer would notice that China with its population size and resulting market, deep spread out diversified industrial ouput capability, economy ten times the size of that of Russia, deep coffers to funds its military r&d and influence global policies in the long term poses much greater threat as a rising power to the US led statusquoist hegemon compared to Russia that is definitely a great power but strategically on the decline. Strategically speaking through western lens, China deserves far more focus than Russia.

[@chickaboomboom2726]

THE REASON WHY I SAID NEVER TRUST INDIA. THEY ARE PLAYING BOTH SIDES

[@ayushgaur235]

Well one thing i have noticed due to war and India neutral stance is that US and NATO are now considering more weapons trade with India And that also of technology they were not offering before

[@chickaboomboom2726]

@@ayushgaur235 TOO LATE FOR THAT. INDIA IS GETTING WEAPONS FROM RUSSIA. WHY WOULD INDIA GETS WEAPONS FROM A COUNTRY THAT THEY MAY FIGHT AGAINST ON THE INDIAN OCEAN.

[@amateur_football9751]

How incredibly rare is to hear an honest analysis

[@luftim]

He is right in multiple levels.. But he is wrong in many others... F.eks., He says the Ukraine conflict benefits China, NO it does not, it is actually proving China that Taiwan (who has been preparing for over 40 years for an invasion, and Ukraine only for 8) Won't fall that easy and that if the west (as they have proven to be reckless, as they sanctioned Russian oil) would put those same sanctions on China as they did Russia, the Chinese would not only hurt but seriously collapse majorly. Their entire economy is based on export. So I don't agree on the statement that the Ukraine war is of benefit to China.

[@dro355]

meirsheimer has been saying the same BS even when the facts disagree with him. He's a fool. Putin invaded not because of NATO (why didnt he invade the Baltics or Balkan countries???) but because he thinks - like most russians - that Ukraine is part of russia. Its imperialism. He also harks on about nationalism all the time yet completely ignores Ukrainian nationalism which WILL win out in the end - just watch!

[@chokwoo5720]

Russia Ukraine War more than lightly will end like Korea War, basically cease fire and each consolidate the existing line of control. John Mearsheimer is another US centric hegemony advocator, cut lost now and aim for bigger prize -- China

[@geoffreybyamukama1018]

Thanks Mr. Zakka and Professor Mearsheimer. Professor Measheimer is one of the rare, best American proficient independent analyst whose analysis on the world politics is thorough, perfect, unbiased and balanced. U.S.A is one of the countries on record to have been with great capabilities of producing great professors one of them being Professor V. Antonio Spraul of Computer Science. We thank you Mr. Zakka for hosting such brilliant world public figure.

[@schmetterling4477]

Let me give you some attention. ;-)

[@paddynair6446]

John Meirsheimer had been discussing the reality for a while now but people don't like to listen😮

[@joemol1274]

This Prof is always on point. I've been a realist for more than a decade now and this man and the situations around, are giving me reasons to dig more into this ideology. Thanks boss.

[@dro355]

No he’s a fool because the facts on the ground have changed and he keeps his outdated and wrong views. That makes him a fool

[@cavaradossi7761]

the prof is a most unrealistic "realist"

[@joemol1274]

@@cavaradossi7761 why do you feel so?

[@joemol1274]

@@dro355 so what are the facts on ground that were there before that have now changed?

[@cavaradossi7761]

@@joemol1274 I think that Mearsheimer overstates Russian resolve and understates Ukrainian resolve to prosecute the war to the bitter end; that is, to the point where Ukraine recovers all the territory it lost to Russia. I also don't think Mearsheimer has taken into account the potential for gruesome infighting among Russian leaders and by extension institutions -defense ministry, presidency, secret services, Wagner group. This infighting will have the effect of further destabilizing the Russian war effort and may very well threaten Putin's power. There's nothing like political instability at home to crush military morale at the front. Mearsheimer also overstates the Russian nuclear "threat," which even China disapproves of. I'm not sure if you've heard of the "Madman Theory." But that would be one way for the West to counter Putin's nuclear threat. It would be a potent way to make it clear to him that the West has no fear of nuclear conflict and that it could incinerate Russia in the bat of an eye. Putin would think twice about his nuclear strategy. Russia also doesn't have the staying power to maintain an economy on a war footing and it lacks the basic constituents of advance weapons systems. Ukraine is beginning to develop a preponderance in military materiel at a time when Russia has depleted much of what it had. Finally, there is the ever present danger that as the war progresses and results fail to meet expectations, that some provinces of the Russian federation may decide to secede, as others had when the Soviet Union started to collapse. Mearsheimer, in short, strikes me as being somewhat unrealistic about Russia's political, military and economic capacity to keep the war going.

[@cshannon5735]

"There's something wrong here" (assessment of other countries) - you got that right Mr Mearsheimer- frighteningly incompetent people running things here (plus parts of administrative state I would say)

[@martinhanley9524]

Burisma Joe

[@felawes]

Excellent interview and analysis.

[@yosephandika6134]

actually US should focus on itself first, there is mounting problem inside US and their peoples need attention from their government too

[@Matt-xj2bx]

oh shut up, that makes no sense

[@tesfayekenea8533]

Where do u think is the balance? Or, just forget Russia-Ukraine?

[@scottdavis421]

You think the US can focus on only one thing at a time? 🙄

[@amateur_football9751]

We can't just focus on ourselves, we live in a globalized world were events outside the country impact the country, there must be a balance and frankly I don't want the government to get even more involved in my life

[@blackbird8516]

Correction .John Mearsheimer did not believe Russia would attack the Ukraine....he admitted he did not expect Russia to invade......pre February 2022

[@user-cc2sv8fp5q]

100% correct. I remember him saying Putin will not hit first. He doesn't know one of his famous sayings "if you see someone is going to hit you - hit him first".

[@Markdmarque]

The Indian foreign minister had some harsh remarks about the "Western Democracy" on their terms ie if they don't like the result Regime change is the course of action. It shows the contempt the Indians have for USA Bullying

[@cavaradossi7761]

It shows the unease autocracies feel when they are being criticized by democracies

[@cpxh7703]

​@@cavaradossi7761United States is not a democratic country. The black people say out loud :"I can't breathe" and "black lives matter". The US belongs to the rich white Americans. The ones that owe the military complex and the FED. The rest of the people are nobody. That is why the rich move their factories to other countries. You poor Americans have no say whatsoever.

[@niveds3576]

@@cavaradossi7761 the same way america supporting pakisthan help democarcy right?

[@cavaradossi7761]

@@niveds3576 America does not support Pakistan. Where did you get that Idea? US - Pakistan relations are very poor.

[@niveds3576]

@@cavaradossi7761 lol go learn history kid,, america even supported a genocide done by Pakistan, america try to threaten india using it nuke weapons to support pakisthan, few months before america gave free military aidd to Pakistan, if i starter to list out things ,it would be a unending list,, i don't know what lies your pro west medias have been telling you,, but america is the one that support islamic jihadi in along with pakisthan, when india was fighting against it.

[@ngosamumba2888]

What about that drawing on Mearsheimer's wall, who are those two guys?

[@agoodchow]

The host of this interview is rather good.

[@adm7038]

I can say he is one of the best geo strategist/ analyst I’ve come across. Heard him predict a lot of what has happened more than 5 years ago.

[@tesfayekenea8533]

Yea!

[@murderofcrows2179]

He predicted what the US Govt, its intelligence assets, and military predicted, give him a prize.

[@nirbija]

The so-called "best geo strategist/analyst is suggesting targeting Nuclear-Armed China? A so-called "best geo strategist/analyst" not know that the violence-loving european warmongers love to target those considered "weak", as he ignorantly and foolishly considered Russia? lol ANY country with nukes and the means to deliver them anywhere, anytime around the planet is anything but "weak"!

[@restitvtororbis5330]

He also predicted that putin was too smart to invade and that if the west really wanted to weaken Russia they would encourage him to invade. I was in his camp right up until the days right after the invasion where I expected him to go over where his predictions went wrong only for him to revise his points and pretend like he wasn't working off of now provably flawed information and act like he was still right the whole time. He keeps beating the exact same drum regardless of how much putin does to undermine him. I probably learned all his predictions and arguments 5 years ago and I know damn well that they are now detached from reality. I had to triple check when this interview was done to make sure it wasn't sometime in the first few months, but if it actually was done this week then i simply can't value his analysis at this point. He's a broken record, he keeps saying the same things regardless of what changes

[@matsforsberg6287]

Nostradamus of this millennium. And Biden does not run anything. He is just a puppet on the string of the military complex US economy is built on waging war. No wars-no dollar hegonomy-no USA.

[@blindsoldier]

ChatGPT says to me that Johnny Moreshmallow is pro-russian

[@bijoydas449]

ChatGPT is a US designed software tool and you cannot expect unbiased opinion from that.

[@blindsoldier]

@@bijoydas449 should i ask chinese chatGPT that does not even "know" who Xi is?

[@sangtonsing9722]

​@@blindsoldier 😂😂😂

[@anifxtutorialsite]

@@blindsoldier You made my night and deserved more than a like which I can't give you now.

[@cheeto8960]

ChatGPT told me the US overthrew the Ukrainian government in 2014

[@convergencev]

Nice video!

[@nadirmahfoudh1812]

Good analysis Prof John Meassheimer

[@abrahamelias95]

India should really find ways to bridge the gap with China. The sooner they understand USA just uses and fucks its allies the better. They dont like China now because they develop themselves, they didnt care shit when they were poor and weak and could only be subject to them, only once they started challenging them they began the narrativw change. They would do the same to India, and its natural it will happen, India has (as China) a much bigger population, so naturally if it develops it would have a much stronger economy. As I mexican I dont really understand or know the little details of the bad historic relationship with China, but its on their best interest to start looking for a better future together instead of antagonizing themselves. Mr. John its mistaken on thinking that China sees the world as USA, they have stuck on their head the way USA works, the winner takes it all mentality of america, China doesnt want to be a hegemon, they are looking for coperation and win-win relationships

[@ykialy]

Agreed!

[@sailendrapamidi]

It takes two hands to clap - it would be naive to think that China does not want to be a hegemony. The actions of the Chinese against India and her interests speaks volumes not to mention the long standing border stand off and violent altercation back in 2020. That apart the actual war in 1962 led to India losing vast tracts of territory in the North (Aksai Chin). The current Indian prime minister Mr. Modi has made more than a dozen visits to China after becoming PM and reached out to their leadership to try and fix the international border - however, the Chinese side was not willing to address the outstanding issue and kept escalating tensions which flared in 2020. As for the US ‘ally’ status - India is more than aware of the strategic nature of its relationship with the US. The flare up of terrorist activities in Kashmir happened as a result of direct funding that Pakistan received as ‘aid’ from US in return for training Taliban fighters in Afghanistan back in the day. That said, India is not an ‘ally’ of the US - that is not our definition - we are a Strategic partner - meaning we look for areas of mutual interest and cooperation. I would refer you to India’s External Affairs minister Mr. S. Jai Shankar’s speeches where he not only clarifies some of these types of questions but also clearly assert our stand - that India is not on any side - but India is on India’s side as it should be for any sovereign nation that puts the interest and welfare of its own people first.

[@real.mir_4523]

Exactly

[@realnapster1522]

Most likely posted by a Chinese wimao 😂 India has tried to make peace with China but aggressive Chinese communists want a hegemony.

[@naderkhalighi6740]

As usual very realistic analysis.

[@garretttobin7451]

CRUX is pure pro Western propaganda most of the time. It represents a aspect of India's media outlets that is deeply regrettable.

[@CallmeBotakaOrc]

Get ready to be referred to as comrade, bot, ivan or orc, get reported and get your account banned for being a despicable pro terrorism war crime loving individual.

[@lindakep3968]

Realistic 😂

[@miophx8283]

​@@lindakep3968careful! Your ignorance of the history and facts are showing.

[@charlemagnetancio1259]

Well its a reality to those who are blind and those are dreaming.

[@donaldkasper8346]

As long as people fight and die, there is no stalemate as eventually one side or the other runs out of men.

[@dhrubamaharjan8732]

India and China should understand what would potential conflicts between the Asian countries might end in. Answer lies in the Asian countries coming together which will bring peace in other continents as well.

[@csabahorvath7203]

Have to disagree with Prof Mearsheimer on Russia tiring of the conflict. I realize this was filmed a few days ago so he couldn't have known this. Russia has released their foreign policy paper today that covers the next century and they expect to have to fight the United States directly. Apparently they state this outright but that's just an interpretation I heard. I don't think we have an English version of the paper yet so it might be more diplomatic. Will see if an official translation will be ever released. They still haven't released the official English translation of the Chinese and Russian joint statements. Which is very unusual. Some thought that Russia may allow NATO to setup shop around Livi by using Poland but I think this assumption may need to be reexamined in light of this latest policy decision. It might be more likely that Russia will stop when it reaches the Polish border. If that happens you can expect Russia to turn the entire Western Ukraine into another WWII style Kursk defensive line with multiple layers of defenses going back 100s of KM that will make the colossal Crimean coastal defenses they are building look meek by comparison.

[@user-vc5zt9ci12]

You're massively overestimating Russian resources. They have been using their strategic reserves in fiscal, military and human capital... and burning through it fast. Their ability to replace and expand on all 3 of these is very limited in the mid to long term

[@csabahorvath7203]

​@@user-vc5zt9ci12 Yes I have heard this argument. It stems from reports coming primarily Bloomberg which have been caught recently outright lying. That is making up details out of thin air without any evidence whatsoever. Bloomberg used to be quite good on economic information but more recently they appear to have been politicized like so many other Western sources. The problem comes from either ignorance of how the Russian economy works or rather how Russian budgets are formed which leads to leaps of logic based on a gross misreading of the Russian budget or malice. Since Bloomberg would most likely have access to sources inside major US banks, the US Federal Reserve as well as the IMF and World Bank with serious analysts that actually understand the Russian economy it's hard to make the argument that these are honest mistakes. But that's just my opinion. So where does that leave us? I suggest listening to Alexander Mercouris. He has an excellent program that covers every point you brought up. He happened to release a video a few weeks ago that covers pretty much everything you just mentioned. The video is titled: Russia Advances Bakhmut, Ukraine Losses Mount, Doubts Over Offensive Grow, West MSM Pessimistic War. It was posted on Mar 14, 2023. The part about the Russian budget can be found at the 43;10 time mark. If you go to 6;58 in the same video it covers your other points. To give you a final answer I strongly suggest watching his video with the following title: Ukraine Admits Russia Bakhmut Gains, China Rejects EU Pressure; Indictment Strengthens Trump. This is dated Mar 31, 2023. Watch it from 7;57. For full context of the above video I strongly suggest also watching the video immediately previous to it from the start titled: Russia Storms Central Bakhmut; Kiev, US in Denial; Zelensky Depressed; Putin Upbeat Econ; EU NatGas Now I have done all of the heavy lifting for you. The rest is up to you.

[@joe_ninety_one5076]

The Russian 100-year plan. Is this a joke? The Kremlin could not even keep to a ten-day plan on 24 February 2022. By the end of the century, much of eastern Russia will be Chinese. The Chinese have already given Vladivostok and other towns Chinese names. The rest of Russia will be a Chinese dependency where nobody can raise their little finger without the knowledge of the CCP.

[@SiamSentin3l]

I notice Indian media tends to really play up this China-India rivalry and it's very counterproductive in putting an end to American imperialism. Hence they bring in China hawks like John Mearsheimer hoping to have him side with India. This backfired on the show host who posed a question whether India can be a meaningful peacemaker and Mearsheimer said "no". He left out the reason being that India has nothing to offer the West nor Russia except this huge human resource population which needs to consume Chinese technology, Russian fuel. The Indian is lagging behind China in terms of industrial productivity and technology by decades That, and land sea corridors of India. The Indian media is playing up this nationalistic hubris which will not serve Indian interests. Play the double game with US too long and India will lose out on the benefits of Eurasian integration compared to smaller Nations.

[@childsname7294]

Good perceptive comment! Mearsheimer knows much more about the realism of Russia than he does about China. It hasn't dawned on him that China is capable of burying the West if that's the direction the West continues to go in.

[@niveds3576]

lol every one in india no, india has no role in peace making, and majority of indian are not even interested in your stupid war, what is asked was also something at a time american news channel also reported, it just a question of weather any country can play a peace role

[@sailendrapamidi]

China has always been a threat to India’s sovereignty and has grabbed vast tracts of land in the North with several attempts to claim territories such as Arunachal Pradesh as belonging to it. The previous Indian governments proved ineffective in defending India’s interests. There has been a long standing buildup of troops at several points along the border since 2020 when there was a violent altercation which is yet to be resolved. This apart China has been trying to curtail India’s interests on multiple fronts by trying to influence India’s neighbouring countries with money and debt trap projects and send military vessels with powerful radars to spy on Indian coastal assets. So yes - the CCP is indeed a bully with expansionist mindset and Indian media is prudent to cover it in detail. I also think you are reading more into the question asked by the host on whether India has a role to play as a potential peacemaker. This is a a common question that comes up due to India having good relations with both rivals US and Russia. I dont see what there is for India to gain by being seen as the peacemaker. On the question of industrial productivity and other points - India has her own strengths and its not solely dependent on playing any side - and no country whether its the US or European nations are providing charity - there is a give and take involved in any relationship.

[@jitendratiwari6886]

Nothing is free.

[@SiamSentin3l]

@@sailendrapamidi Thank you for your extensive response to my point I appreciate your thoughts. I am aware of China India relations and I still think India's fears of Chinese expansionism should be given more critical thought to discern which aspects are dangerous and rightly to be resisted/negotiated, but also which areas are becoming lost opportunities which should be taken by both. It is clear that the sourgrapes in the BRICS /belt road initiative / dedollarization / multipolar world movement is the China-India relationship. I don't see an Anti-Indian sentiment in the Chinese media although it is obvious that China has the economic/strategic/political upper hand which they operate from. The point I am getting at is we know India has a vast human resource similar to that of China since the past century but now that China has bridged the technology gap but India has not, - India must seize this diplomatic opportunity to improve China-India relations and improve the technology gap in India's interest. If India allows its China fears to overtake the political environment then it opens the doors for the west to leverage that and making India become the next Pakistan, out fo the fear of China - same as how Pakistan embraces US aid out of the fear of India.

[@nikolozgabedava6934]

Very good questions by journalist.

[@gordonschedel368]

I wonder what the professor’s opinion is on why the west was pushing Ukraine towards this war.

[@UniqueG24]

I think he does go into more detail on this in other interviews/talks. Basically, because of political naïvety and arrogance. They just thought they could get away with it, as they did with previous NATO expansions. As for the reasons why they would follow such a policy in the first place, I'm not exactly sure whether I heard him talk about that. My guess is that (1) many people in power were fighting Russians in the Soviet Union all their lives and just couldn't let go (it's very difficult to dissolve an organization like NATO), and (2) the US did not want Europe to pivot towards Russia and away from the US. And personally, this is what bugs me so much about the EU's position/role in this: How did they not see after 1990 that a lasting peace within Europe requires a security architecture that involves Russia? With Siberia, the Caucasus and the Bosporus, that would have been a very comfortable buffer for Europe. Now we got an endless war of attrition going on almost in the heart of Europe (at least from a geographic PoV) that is going to push Europe and Russia further away day by day and would require decades to repair. Meanwhile, Russia is pushed even more towards China. So instead of the potential of having a Eurasian superpower with huge natural barriers towards East and South Asia, Europe now is in a situation where they may have China (via Russia) at their doorstep.

[@tonytan6547]

China basically does not think the way like John Mearsheimer. Hegemonic is not its DNA, but India in fact thinks/dreams to be a Hegemon

[@crescentprincekronos2518]

Well they don't call it the Indo Pacific for nothing. Truthfully though, i don't know enough about them to say one way or the other.

[@ephilippos]

He is so true in his logic & estimations of what is to happen!😊

[@righteousbyfaithinChrist]

I disagree God's going to determine what's going to happen and when

[@jameswright2974]

Brics g7 v g20 my 80 yrs North Atlantic terrorist organisation NATO USA go back home Fled the natzi and Afghanistan Vietnamese

[@oskarandradev147]

This gentleman is right!

[@redhammer1917]

It's gonna be like the Donbass since 2014 stale mate it won't end that war has never stopped

[@sirfrancis9619]

Well Ukraine had no military to do much about it back then

[@mauriciowaldman4358]

Congratulations to Crux Channel about this episode!

[@SurajSharma-vh3br]

John , regards, you make sense in a dysfunctional world.....

[@RedPill-my6tn]

I've heard retired U.S military officers say that if any of the european NATO member countries had taken on Ukraine militarily, it probably would have fared far worse.

[@pechudin9086]

Well yeah European NATO members have small militaries. Russia has a massive (albeit poorly run) one.

[@AB-et2hq]

@@pechudin9086 Where do you get an idea on how it's run? Not to say you are wrong or right, but you are giving an "expert" opinion on something you have no clue about. For starters Russian standing military following their military reform in 2000's is not that massive. What is massive is their mobilization potential which is something different from active, standing army

[@pechudin9086]

@@AB-et2hq Yeah, I may have use wrong terminology. Perhaps I should have said that the force they use was not suited for the task of conquering Ukraine? At any rate, the original point that an European NATO member would fare worse still stands because they have very small armies for the most part.

[@AB-et2hq]

@@pechudin9086It's not a stretch to suggest that Ukraine probably has the 2nd most capable army in Europe after Turkey. Even then that army was quite seriously beat up by " poorly run" Russian forces and the sole reason why they still exist is because of enormous Western support. I would venture to say that even US would not have fared much better. This isn't 1991 Gulf War where you could set up shop in neighboring Saudi Arabia with a million troops and have uncontested air superiority. Nobody in the world has any experience of fighting this type of war on that scale. Last time something like this happened was 1940's and the technologies were different. No drones, guided artillery, satellites, S-400's, tanks didn't have reactive armor. You literally have to learn on the fly.

[@pechudin9086]

@@AB-et2hq Hmm.. not sure about the US thing. I am by no means an expert, but from what I've gathered the main problem Russia had is that the leadership assumed Ukraine would not struggle as much as it is. And because of that the "West" would not have time to react. But it did not happen, and now it's a protracted grindfest. Would US fare better? They'd have a lot more airpower, and perhaps they'd not underestimate the Ukrainian army as much. At leas they would not assume "friendliness" of some populations. Also I am pretty sure US would have air superiority. Again, not an expert but is not supression of air defences one of key US priorities, seeing as that's what they were expecting from the USSR? Well, I'll say this. Maybe and maybe not Russian army is poorly run. But it does seem to be ... underwhelming? Like it should've not have had such an issue.

[@lining8385]

Sharing below written by a Malaysian KZbinr: I’m from Malaysia. China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they had been the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops to take our land. China's admiral Zhenghe came to Malacca five times, in gigantic fleets, and a flagship eight times the size of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, Santa Maria. He could have seized Malacca easily, but he did not. In 1511, the Portuguese came. In 1642, the Dutch came. In the 18th century the British came. We were colonised by each, one after another. When China wanted spices from India, they traded with the Indians. When they wanted gems, they traded with the Persian. They didn’t take lands. The only time China expanded beyond their current borders was in Yuan Dynasty, when Genghis and his descendants Ogedei Khan, Guyuk Khan & Kublai Khan concurred China, Mid Asia and Eastern Europe. But Yuan Dynasty, although being based in China, was a part of the Mongolian Empire. Then came year 1800, the Century of Humiliation. Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn the trade deficit around, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing Dynasty in their tea and porcelain trades and the doping went on for over 30 years. After the opium warehouses were burned down and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British in a peace talk (Nanjing Treaty). The British owned 90% of the opium market in China, during that time, Queen Victoria was the world’s biggest drug baron. The remaining 10% was owned by American merchants from Boston. Many of Boston’s institutions were built with profit from opium. After 12 years of Nanjing Treaty, the West started getting really really greedy. The British wanted the Qing government: 1. To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely, and tax free. 2. Make opium legal in China. Insane requests, Qing government said no. The British and French (with supports from the US), started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, and threatened to burn down the Imperial Palace, the Qing government was forced to pay with ports, free business zones, 300,000 kilograms of silver and Kowloon was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely through these business zones and ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor. In 1900, China suffered attacks by the 8-National Alliance. These 8-Robbers were: Empire of Japan, Russian Empire, British Empire (including India), France, USA, Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary. Innocent Chinese civilians in Peking (Beijing now) were murdered, buildings were destroyed & women were raped. The Imperial Palace was raided, and treasures ended up in museums like the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris. In late 1930s China was occupied by the Japanese in WWII. Millions of Chinese died during the occupancy. 300,000 Chinese died in Nanjing Massacre alone. Mao brought China together again from the shambles. There were peace and unity for some time. But Mao’s later reign saw sufferings and deaths from famine and power struggles. Then came Deng Xiao Ping and his infamous “black-cat and white-cat” story. His preference in pragmatism than ideologies transformed China. This thinking allowed China to evolve all the time to adapt to the actual needs in the country, instead of rigidly bounded to ideologies. It also signified the death of Communism in actually practice in China. The current Socialism+Meritocracy+Market Economy model fits the Chinese like gloves, and it propels the uprise of China. Singapore has a similar model, and has been arguably more successful than Hong Kong, because Hong Kong being gateway to China, was riding on the economic boom in China, while Singapore had no one to gain from. In just 30 years, the CPC have moved 800 millions of people out from poverty. The rate of growth is unprecedented in human history. They have built the biggest mobile network, by far the biggest high speed rail network in the world, and they have become a behemoth in infrastructure. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the Silicon Valley. They are growing into a technological power house. It has the most elaborate e-commerce and cashless payment system in the world. They have launched exploration to Mars. The Chinese are living a good life and China has become one of the safest countries in the world. The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height. For all of the achievements, the West has nothing good to say about it. China suffers from intense anti-China propagandas from the West. Western Media used the keyword “Communist” to instil fear and hatred towards China. Everything China does is negatively reported. They claimed China used slave labor in making iPhones. The truth was, Apple was the most profitable company in the world, it took most of the profit, leave some to Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) and little to the labor. They claimed China was inhuman with one-child policy. At the same time, they accused China of polluting the earth with its huge population. The fact is the Chinese consume just 30% of energy per capita compared to the US. They claimed China underwent ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. The fact is China has a policy which priorities ethnic minorities. For a long time, the ethnic minorities were allowed to have two children and the majority Han only allowed one. The minorities are allowed a lower score for university intakes. There are 39,000 mosque in China, and 2100 in the US. China has about 3 times more mosque per muslim than the US. When terrorist attacks happened in Xinjiang, China had two choices: 1. Re-educate the Uighur extremists before they turned terrorists. 2. Let them be, after they launch attacks and killed innocent people, bomb their homes. China chose option 1 to solve problem from the root and not to do killing. How the US solve terrorism? Fire missiles from battleships, drop bombs from the sky. During the pandemic, when China took extreme measures to lockdown the people, they were accused of being inhuman. When China recovered swiftly because of the extreme measures, they were accused of lying about the actual numbers. When China’s cases became so low that they could provide medical support to other countries, they were accused of politically motivated. Western Media always have reasons to bash China. Just like any country, there are irresponsible individuals from China which do bad and dirty things, but the China government overall has done very well. But I hear this comment over and over by people from the West: I like Chinese people, but the CPC is evil. What they really want is the Chinese to change the government, because the current one is too good. Fortunately China is not a multi-party democratic country, otherwise the opposition party in China will be supported by notorious NGOs (Non-Government Organization) of the USA, like the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), to topple the ruling party. The US and the British couldn’t crack Mainland China, so they work on Hong Kong. Of all the ex-British colonial countries, only the Hong Kongers were offered BNOs by the British. Because the UK would like the Hong Kongers to think they are British citizens, not Chinese. A divide-and-conquer strategy, which they often used in Color Revolutions around the world. They resort to low dirty tricks like detaining Huawei’s CFO & banning Huawei. They raised a silly trade war which benefits no one. Trade deficit always exist between a developing and a developed country. USA is like a luxury car seller who ask a farmer: why am I always buying your vegetables and you haven’t bought any of my cars? When the Chinese were making socks for the world 30 years ago, the world let it be. But when Chinese started to make high technology products, like Huawei and DJI, it caused red-alert. Because when Western and Japanese products are equal to Chinese in technologies, they could never match the Chinese in prices. First world countries want China to continue in making socks. Instead of stepping up themselves, they want to pull China down. The recent movement by the US against China has a very important background. When Libya, Iran, and China decided to ditch the US dollar in oil trades, Gaddafi’s was killed by the US, Iran was being sanctioned by the US, and now it’s China’s turn. The US has been printing money out of nothing. The only reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because it’s the only currency which oil is allowed to be traded with. The US has an agreement with Saudi that oil must be traded in US dollar ONLY. Without the petrol-dollar status, the US dollars will sink, and America will fall. Therefore anyone trying to disobey this order will be eliminated. China will soon use a gold-backed crypto-currency, the alarms in the White House go off like mad. China’s achievement has been by hard work. Not by looting the world. I have deep sympathy for China for all the suffering, but now I feel happy for them. China is not rising, they are going back to where they belong. Good luck China.

[@umarjongi3590]

thanks my friend Malaysia&China

[@garyeuscher4499]

WUMAO has arrived!

[@quasimotto8653]

LOL That might be the best-written bullshit from a Wumao that I have seen! Well-written..........but still bullshit.

[@cavaradossi7761]

That's Chat GPT talking. Pure BS.

[@quasimotto8653]

@@cavaradossi7761 I've heard of Chat GPT, of course, but I don't have any experience with it. So is this what we can expect..........eloquently, well-written lies? LOL

[@Bauveih.]

I really wanna have just one photo with this Processor!

[@caseyjones6425]

Professor Mearsheimer is spot on about the perception that the US doesn't know what it's doing in foreign affairs. The US's only solution is regime change and war. We have failed to look at any other solution in international relationships as being mutually beneficial. We have become complacent and stagnant in our self aggrandisement and have refused to move foward from the European model of exploitation of other countries. The world can see this clearly and prefer to join BRICS or stay neutral. The more I learn about China, and their "true intentions" the more respect I have for Xi and the less I have for the "western" powers. The west's antiquated capitalist system, without change, will be its undoing.

[@TimothyZhou0]

Funnily enough, China only became rich after it ended communism and adopted a Western capitalistic system...

[@operdigoto8453]

Care to elaborate on what you mean by China's true intentions? Completely agree with the rest of what you said, just curious on that one.

[@stephenjenkins7971]

Crying about Western capitalism while CCP capitalism is far more imperialist and predatory while having a habit of worker slave labor is just... 😂

[@Typhoonflame]

Why would you respect a country that literally watches over its people like a hawk and imprisons people in what are basically gulags?? What even...I respect them economically, sure, but as a government, no...

[@andrewsirkis9114]

Thoughtful interview with intelligent and probing questions. Prof Mearsheimer never disappoints with cogent comments. Not sure I understand why India and China must be in conflict. From a business and economic point of view, wouldn't they both benefit to be on decent terms?

[@gautamdas3439]

India and china will always be in conflict until the boarder issue is resolved. Powerful China will never want to settle the boarder issue as they don't want to loose the opportunity to steal land from India year over year in an incremental way. Only option India will have is to make itself powerful country and align with USA and even with Russia which will always be India's friend based on history to deter China.

[@ykialy]

Because America won't let that happen. They will create trouble between India and China. Believe me.

[@thorkushari4027]

Of course, they were on good terms for 2000 years.

[@ffelegal]

Mearsheimer predicted this war years ago after 2014 saying Russia would destroy Ulkraine to the ground if Otan/US kept advancing. That the US thought they could poke Russia in the face. He just said everything Russia said before invasion. I can't decide which side is correct. I keep changing my mind about this subject. Clearly no one should invade anyones territory like Russia did. And Ulkraine is not to blame of course. But is Russia really justified in doing their actions?

[@childsname7294]

I have to differ (not defer) with Meirsheimer. At the end of one year, Russia has upset the West totally. Russia did not collapse under sanctions, in fact, the West is collapsing. It is gaining ground economically and militarily every day. China is onboard with Ru because it sees Ru is winning. China is making things and making money every day, so helping Ru gradually win against the West makes good sense. Russia is definitely not a weak power, and for now Ru&Chi are playing the better chess game.

[@tinatang1]

India will get closer to the Eurasian bloc of Russia and China because India's strategic interests are greater with Asia than with the West. India is also with BRICS and SCO! Whatever border issues India has with China is India's choice to upkeep or not because China has already reached out twice to India (during the reign of Gandhi's National Congress rule) to settle them peacefully. India then was (and may be even now) too dominated by her past colonial master & mindset, to agree to negotiate with China. The strategy of the colonial masters was and still is, to DIVIDE & CONQUER Even Mearsheimer's arguments have a hidden agenda to apply this strategy - DIVIDE and CONQUER. Calling Russia the weakest of the 3 great powers is an attempt to stoke the so-called EGO of Putin and the Russian people, to make them resentful of China; and laughing at the idea of India being able to broker a peace deal between the US and Russia, like China, is also an attempt to make India too jealous of China to stop rebuffing China's outreach to India to establish a better relationship between these 2 most populous nations in the world. The problem is, deep in his heart, the Prof believes and wishes to preserve US dominance and hegemony. He doesn't understand Russia and China's goal and desire to have a multipolar world without any state being a hegemon of any region. What these two powers want is a peaceful world based on the UN Charter, NOT the so-called "Rules based International Order" which the US tries to impose on the world to preserve her dominance and hegemony. RUSSIA & China believe in the philosophy of mutual benefits for all nations and a commuity with a shared future for all humanity. They don't subscribe to the US ego-centric philosophy of dominance, hegemony and divide and conquer. I wish, Prof Mearsheimer, who prides himself of being a realist, will stop trying to divide Russia and China and open his eyes to reality - these 2 countries refuse to play the West's game of hegemony and dominance because they have seen and experienced how destructive such a strategy is for world peace and harmony and how destructive wars are for the environment and global warming!

[@fattfatt6483]

I AGREE WITH YOUR POINTS ! IT SEEMS THE PRO. TRYING TO DIVIDE RUSSIA AND CHINA 🇨🇳 ! PRO USA HEGEMONY, AND DOMINANT IDEOLOGY !

[@knightatdawndonbynight8432]

Your opinion of the prof is your personal that you are entitled to and I need not counter that although I may mot necessarily agree with each of your cynicism of the professor. I also understand that you are either Chinese or a russian or one from their bloc and that you evidently have a stake in the newfounded bonhomie between Russia and China that has not been this cordial in a while (remember 1960s) and the US this time around has defintely made a foolhardy strategic miscalculation to push isolated Russia into the fold of China. But I am not here to talk about all that. I am precisely here to tell you that you or whichsoever country you represent have or has no authority or agency to instruct or dictate terms to India on what should constitute India's foreign policy and that India does not seek or care for your validation as to whether India's foreign policies are independent or decided by its erstwhile colonial rulers or the collective west. India is not simply willing to cede ground, be it up the Himalayas or safe passage and and unhindered navigation as well as multinational nature of under sea mineral and other kinds of resources and reserves in high seas of the Indian ocean, the pacific ocean and adjoining international waters (India simply does not recognise South China sea as sovereign chinese territory) and India does not accept Chinese proposals of resolution of border disputes made from maximalist position by harnessing their position of strength with microscopic discount offers to India made to like "win win situation" magnanimous favor to India on the part of China. India is not here to get duped and be malleable to forktongued, duplicitous, treacherous pedagogy that often comes India's way. Peace is what India chooses between peace and war but peace on China's terms will not be accepted so there always will be this grey area of no peace but no war either kind of space for strategic ambiguity. India is in numerous multilateral organisations, be it BRICS, SCO or Quad and being in BRICS or SCO does not in any way mean that India is in friendly terms with China at all, it just means that India is open to multilateral cooperation so long as such groupings do not turn themselves to be anti this or anti that clubs, that India is not intent on shutting its doors and windows on China and is open to continuing with diplomatic engagement of China, that is it and there is nothing much to read into this. India has seen the west and China from close quarters and needs no lecture on which one is worse and more treacherous- India ideally would like to keep both at arms length distance but since China poses immediate threat to India, India cooperates with the west where their strategic interests align, that is containment of China along India's borders, in its neighborhood and in India's sphere of influence and trade interests, in exponence of true multipolarity where poles sometimes cooperate to balance. After ganging up against India by emboldening rogue states like Pakistan, proliferating nuclear weaoons and long range ballistic missiles to them in order to contain India and keep it straddled in regional conflicts wherein Pakistan keeps blackmailing and pinpricking india with terrorist activities against India under the cover of nuclear umbrella, knowingly despite the fact that Pakistan sided with the wes since is inception and still remains a nonNato ally of the US, China should never raise the bogey of the west with India and never expect any nicety in return from India by invoking India's Russia ties or by screaming their lungs out on how bad the west is. India has been already nice beyond reaaons to China in that India is yet to provide nuclear arms and ballistic missiles technology to littoral states in the indo pacific like vietnam or Taiwan following suit of China's shenanigans. India-Russia relation on the contrary is time tasted, deep, based on profoundly thought through ideas, does not suffer from any strategic insecurity so far as core interests like territorial integrity are concerned and India intends to pursue the mutually benefitting ties of strategic nature with Russia and there is no threat to Russia from whatsover bond India forges with the west as that will not be Russia specific on India's part and this war in Ukraine is living example that the west can not just wag fingers at India or armtwist India to make it acquiesce to their demands against Russia.

[@Sunnyokwor]

He is just dreaming that India will go to US block after what the US and West did to them.

[@ykialy]

@@knightatdawndonbynight8432 I always believe India and China should work together. Why? Because being an ally of US is dangerous. They will control you, they will manipulate you. If you make them angry, then you will be wiped. Please check Japan and Korea. Live example! If China is beaten by US, then India will be the next.

[@paddynair6446]

Totally realistic explanation of the situation😊

[@virinderdogra6086]

Its an example that a small patriotic country if come to unite and fight under able leadership can defend its territorial integrity and sovereignty at any cost.

[@PeaceDove-ec3bb]

You forgot the most important - MONEY!

[@godson742]

Good job men

[@bonsummers2657]

Russia had that territory from the late 1700's to about 1920.

[@user-vc5zt9ci12]

We (the british) had half the world in that period....perhaps we should go back to that too?? Silly argument

[@schneider87666]

Seren, The Ukraine is not half of the world. It is a bridge state between the EU and Russia.

[@bonsummers2657]

@@user-vc5zt9ci12 Not a silly argument. The Donbas to Kherson, with Crimea, is wild fields borderlands. The British imperialism does not compare. You did silly posturing.

[@user-vc5zt9ci12]

@@bonsummers2657 the muscovites state was pretty tiny to start with, and then had continuous expansion for half a millenia... I would call that imperialism. My point is that it's too easy to pick a point in history that aligns with a view on people and state.

[@mazamatov]

I'm surprised that a mouthpiece like Crux has invited professor Mearsheimer.

[@ignacemorel641]

John Mearsheimer is a clear thinker. Telling it like it is. My only disagreement is on the relationship between Russia China and the US. Russia and China are in favor of a multipolar world while the US is trying to maintain its hegemony as the sole superpower.

[@VOVA08090]

I watched an interview a week ago with Colonel Douglas McGregor and what he said I was in shock to be honest!!! and so he said that 250,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers and 600,000 wounded that there were 3 armies, the first professional army was destroyed, the second from the reserve was destroyed and now it’s just those who are simply being driven to slaughter. and that Russia has integrated its air defense and shot down over 400 jet aircraft, 259 helicopters and over 1000 different drones. that Russia’s air defense is very good. and I’m proud that my Russian army is so powerful and that this is not the last person in America to honestly speak about it as it is. and not those who speak and pour into the ears of the Western people and everything the world that the Russian army is not competent !!!

[@Valkron11]

Okay, so the Russians are competent on the battlefield and they have high tech weaponry. But the Russians are way behind in correct pronoun use and they don't even know men can get pregnant. Soon NATO will unleash its forces and we will see how well Russia does when Western combat heels hit the battlefield

[@tomkuypers1]

😂

[@chrisrobert5252]

Douglas McGregor also said that the loss ratio in Bakhmut is 1:9 in favour of the Russians. So the clowns are not always Russian!

[@wolfvale7863]

Yes and if you listen to Scott Ritter he tells you it is 350, 000 KIA. Truth is, they have as much knowledge about such things as you or I. In many cases less. Russia has not achieved any objectives in more than a year. Talk about that instead.

[@cocktail2380]

😂😂😂 Тебя тоже мобилизует

[@christopherenmarch5699]

Totally disagree with him .. he is only taking into account the fighting not the economic and political hammering that Russia is going to receive

[@cheeto8960]

The IMF says the Russian economy will grow from now on

[@williamplayfair364]

Russia is losing 500 billion a day on energy. This war is already over the Russians and Mearsheimer don't get it.

[@williamplayfair364]

@@cheeto8960 The IMF just repeats what Putin tells them. They are lying, some Russian industries like automobile industry is down 99%. They are losing 500 billion a day in energy. Eventually they will be sending men to war with sticks.

[@alexabood2516]

“Here is the smartest guy on this topic. How do we solve this, sir?” “There is no solution” Understandable have a nice day

[@giaLegends]

I think you should get every guest to wear a Pep Dream Makers t-shirt and cap.

[@liberty-matrix]

"Today the people of these 4 regions became our citizens, forever." ~Russian President, Vladimir Putin

[@cavaradossi7761]

That didn't work out too well, did it?

[@joe_ninety_one5076]

Forever is a long time.

[@wp9860]

Mearsheimer posits that Russia is unbeatable. Many other military experts are just as vociferous to the contrary. I would like to see Mearsheimer square off with General Ben Hodges and debate that point. The former foreign minister in Boris Yeltsin's administration has described Russia's armed forces as a "Potemkin military" due to the pervasive corruption throughout Russia. This is being demonstrated in spades on the battlefield. It suggests that Russia will simply exhaust itself and learn to live with NATO on its boarder, as if NATO in Poland and the Baltics, and now Finland, doesn't already meet that condition.

[@justinlawrence5453]

I agree, who is this idiot? Why is he being interviewed? His comments on Russia using nuclear weapons are a disgrace.

[@martinoneill5804]

WP Can you defeat a nuclear power?

[@wp9860]

@@martinoneill5804 What happened to both the Soviet Union and the United States in Afghanistan? Where are today's boarders of the Soviet Union?

[@cheeto8960]

Mark Milley head US general said last winter that ukraine needs to negotiate now because this is best they will be able to do but he was told to shut up about that

[@tomwhittaker9461]

Why should US deal with the "China threat"? Which China threat? While Mearsheimer seems logical enough with regards Russial, I just don't get his China position.

[@knightatdawndonbynight8432]

Except for the Donald Trump matter and India profiting from this war, I agree with everything else in this discussion. So how does India really profit from this war? Strategically, India's importance, relevance or the necessity to have India as a continuing partner has not reduced to both the US and Russia admittedly but that is a status quo and not a new benefit of sorts. Militarily, India does not benefit from this war as a) questions on sophitication, efficiency and quality of certain (and not all) Russian weapons that India also uses, has become more prominent b) the west's ability to quantitatively meet India's military demands has arisen c) with Russia and the west both using up their reserve stockpiles, both their ability to supply India in the scenario of an immediate short term contingency of a war between India and China d) With consequences of this war fortifying China-Russia military relations, Russia might be more weary of supplying or even providing for maintenance and uogrades of existing russian origin equipment in India's inventory e) With this war badly stressing Russia's inventory and their defense industries working overtime to meet their own wartime need, Russia has already defaulted on meeting some contractual obligations regarding supply of spares for military equipment to India e) The western sanctions enforced on Russia has made it difficult for India and Russia to get into new military contracts without avoiding the sanctions and sanctions have made certain electronics and materials off-limits to Russia which would hinder Russia's future supplies to India to a great extent f) apart from the questionable quantiative defense output ability of the west, India remains inhibitive about switching over to western weapons completely because of prohibitive cost of western weapons that would prevent India to acquire in large quantities needed against China, strings attached to it like whining EUMAs literally giving up the dictating terms to the west on a platter on when and whom to start a war with, coupled with observation of the US's push to countries like Germany to share their inventiry with Ukraine with India contemplating if a similar fate awaits India and above all looming threat of sanctions on military sales to India in a single vendor situation in absence of the Russian vendor from unpredictabke US if India continues to pursue independent foreign policy in exercise of its sovereignty. From business, trade and economy point of view, India does not benefit as a)India ensuring its food security through fertiliser import from Russia and India ensuring its energy security through oil import from Russia is not a new benefit, rather India's oil import from Russia is a desperate attempt by India at offsetting some of its loss especially after its economy took hit due to covid induced prolonged lockdowns b) If India continued to buy as much from other existing oil sources it traditionally has been buying from over the years and not from Russia, the west in the wake of its sanctions on Russian oil, other heavy oil consuming economies and India all crowding on common oil import sources would create disproportionate demand-supply issues, drive up global oil prices, make the oil prices for expensive for the west and illaffordable for developing countries including India causing further loss to indian economy. So India buying oil from Russia is a favor towards all economies in such trying times. c) Large portions of Russian oil bought by India is being rerouted at similar cheap rates to not just developing countries but to many of the western developed countries that have formally sanctioned russian oil yet have been knowingly buying Russian oil from India- India has done a favor to all these countries instead of benefitting from the war. d) War induced recession and depression in western economies is not beneficial for India either as Indian industries depend on export to the west e) sanctions and isolation of Russia makes Russia turn to china even more and binds it into monopsony kind of trade relation with China which is not at all beneficial for India, be it in teade, strategically (as India depends on Russian veto and China having greater say on Russian foreign policy due to its domination of Russia as single largest buyer is detrimental to India's strategic interest) as well as mikitarily. f) Even though China also stands to lose due to slump in western market while the war rages on as China exports plentiful to the west, China also stands to gain by becoming monopsonic client of cheap and opulent mineral reserves of Russia that will help it to undercut its prices and rig competition in gloibal markets and with both strategic wane of western and russian power projection amid their resorces and concentration remaining struck and regionakised in europe, China gets to spread its tentackes around the globe and gets an opportunity to bridge gap of its economic might and ability of power projection with the west- India sinply is not up there, has not arrived to challenge the hegemony of the west to benefit in any sorts from the war. So how come India profits from this war?

[@gyzq]

If all of what you said were correct, maybe, India should settle border dispute with China. After that, India can enjoy all the benefit from Ukraine War. Russian, Vietnam, Mayanmar, Nepal, Tajikistan have all settled disputes of land border with China, why couldn't India?

[@knightatdawndonbynight8432]

@@gyzq Vietnam and Nepal have not reallly settled. China is simply not willing to regard the Mcmahon line for dispute resolution unlike the way it has accepted Macmahon line hypocritically in dispute resolution with Myanmar as China stands from geopolitically benefit through gain of strategic vantage points in its recognition of Mcmahon line with Myanmar. Some other landlocked countries did not settle, rather accepted teeny tiny favors (they did not have much of an option left) masked as usual "win win situation" oftrepeated in forktongued chinese dilpolmatic parance on Chinese maximalist positions shoved onto them by China's wolf warriors from their China's position of strength while Russia did let go of its claims in its disputes with China in the wake of a greater common danger of US hegemonic dominance that has brought them closer in the recent decade. China remains in occupation of not just international waters in the SCS, but EEZs and even mmaritime boundaries of litttoral states in the south east asia and China has not resolved those disputes unilaterallly crrated and aggravated by it. India does not have taste for any short term profiteering at the expense of it foregoing its core national interest of its own territorial integrity in the name of dispute resolution with China, or at the expense of suffering of other people (the ukrainian people) in the war or at the expense of strategic insecurity its timetasted partner Rudsia has been subjected to. India will continue to do trade with both Russia and the west with the understanding that if India's import from Russia helps Russia to fund its war with Ukraine, India's import from the west also helps the west to fund its military supplies to Ukraine and so India is not responsible for how any country utilises their export revenues earned from their trade with India and hence India will press on doing trade without being pressurised by any of the bloc to choose one over the other, without being guilt tripped with false narrative of India profiteering of the war and without being ensnared into lure of greater gains if its joins the ranks of China and Russia in a military slliance with the west.

[@vincentcroft1473]

Russia is not weak, but it is about one against too many 😔😔🔥

[@mariaadelecagna3540]

Chapeau!!! Well said!!

[@johnpaulii7667]

Russia is no longer the USSR that kept its enemies at bay for decades.

[@cavaradossi7761]

Russia is weak. Very weak, not to mention militarily inept.

[@cherowa]

@@cavaradossi7761 :ignoramus...

[@cavaradossi7761]

@@cherowa don't be so hard on yourself. You're (probably) smarter than you think..

[@williamzabiski7653]

After taiwan is india , nuetral?

[@rkkhelensingh6491]

Dont worry we r not like taiwan, we r much capable enough to face them. Above all we r a nuclear state

[@hussinsaid4716]

It is not a question of how it will end but who will be gaining and losing?

[@abelxo1]

Also India is with Rusia? Why do you affirm China is with Rusia? Everyone who is not with EU is with Rusia?

[@Eagle-nq2mv]

The big arms dealers and shareholders are always the big winners.Get the list of shareholders and make it public.All will become clear.

[@miaya3898]

And then what? Public too dvmb

[@MikeMW87]

o stay quiet hyppie.

[@chriswong9158]

No US American don't care for that info is already public information.

[@lesbrunswick5137]

Prof. Mearsheimer makes some good points. However, with regard to Ukraine becoming a frozen conflict, it is hard to see how Putin could cease actively fighting against Ukraine and still remain in power, given how bad an outcome that would be compared with what he predicted at the beginning. Mearsheimer can't see that because he is a classic international relations realist, and as such he feels a sacred duty to always assume that the leader of a great power has absolute political power. Also, he is quite wrong that China is happy about the war. In fact it has put it in a number of uncomfortable dilemmas, as we can see by its very half-hearted support of Russia. In the larger picture, long before the war started Mearsheimer was promoting the idea of a Russo-American alliance against China. The problem with that idea is that Putin never had an interest in cooperating with the West. His intentions were always to reestablish the Russian Empire at the expense of the West, and as he has made abundantly clear in his speeches and actions, he has always been in his ideology much closer to China.

[@cavaradossi7761]

well put

[@leo-db5do]

"Russian empire at the expense of the West"... The question is what does the West do in the Eastern Hemisphere?!

[@billf4186]

Professor Mearsheimer - the US is not “bogged down” in a war in Eastern Europe. Russia is bogged down and losing tens of thousands of its citizens.

[@zwcdamien]

3:45 - Why then didn’t Russia accept Ukraines offer to never join NATO and remain neutral over security guarantees during peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey? This clearly shows that, even if NATO concerns were a reason to invade them, it certainly wasn’t the only one. Maybe not even the main reason.

[@lala3646]

oh my god, can you be that ignorant? the usa and britain intervened and de facto forbid ukraine to come to a peace deal with russia in those negotiations. because an end to the war at such an early stage was the last thing the usa wanted, after all they had worked so hard for many years to force russia into this war. read the usa government funded rand corporation essay from 2019 titled extending russia, it's available on the internet. or stay dumb. your choice :D

[@johnwicked0723]

Wtf is he saying Russia is not gonna let Ukraine be a part of NATO. But Russia is ok Finland and Sweden be a part of NATO.

[@vaibhavrajsingh9552]

Because from Finland & Sweden there is no one gonna invade

[@rp3875]

Yes

[@cheeto8960]

Sweden and Finland can't be used to contain Russia, like Ukraine. Containment is the goal.

[@aussiepatriot]

Russia is a weak great power, wtf. This guy needs retirement

[@abdulsalamibrahim8581]

Keep dreaming

[@aussiepatriot]

@@abdulsalamibrahim8581 yep i will dream of the day he is gone. you keep dreaming too

[@rameshb3127]

Hey it is not war, it is SMO

[@PeterSodhi]

Excellent host and professor. Grade A. Nothing in the backward west remotely this good.

[@samdl1436]

Maersheimer’s predictions have been spot on time after time. His analysis is intelligent, well informed and without any of the bias and wishful thinking so prevalent now in the west. It’s a downright shame he’s not being listened to by our mainstream media and politicians.

[@Tehui1974]

Agree.

[@Win32error854]

He’s an idiot. His prediction was that Putin would never invade because he was way too smart for that.

[@RTWPimpmachine]

"Putin will never invade Ukraine." - Mearsheimer. Yeah, brilliant.

[@ja123gar]

Russia is the strongest country in the world despite all the propaganda. NATO had 14 years to dig in inside of Ukraine. US, Ukraine and EU forced many countries including Australia, New Zealand and Pakistan to supply massivequantitiesof weapons. The US as well supplied weapons. And yet Russia has decimated Ukraine, NATO and US personnel. Kudos Russia.

[@erics7376]

lol,

[@cavaradossi7761]

stop drinking or/and smoking stuff.

[@truth-uncensored2426]

@@cavaradossi7761 He's right, right Russia is outproducing the entire european continent + USA in terms of artillery shells and tank production, and they're not even at full war economy mode. I fell pity for the idiots who believe Russia is a poor country with no technology and has a horrible military force, you people are going for a big surprise in the next decades dealing with the "weak" Russia.

[@Karthik_Bangalore_Indian]

Yes, No China could have dared to stand against 30-40 Advanced countries Only Russia in entire world . Not even India would have dared to do so. NATO's Spy intelligence will be unbelievable. People have no idea.

[@ngandosambalundula8183]

With all due respect to you, Prof Mearsheimer, may I suggest that you refer to any other power as being a weak power with restricted limitations. According to your own assertions, Russia is unable to conquer Ukraine and by extension Western Europe. Now was/were the States able to conquer North Korea, Vietnam, Lybian, Syria, ... and recently Afghanistan? Aren't these failed situations by the militarily mighty of this world an irrefutable admission that no single country or even a group of countries shall ever rule Planet Earth single-handedly?

[@gamleyeyesan7045]

One can agree with the erudite professional on many counts and levels however his statement @ 16:23 - 16:27 is a tragic evaluation of Russia conduct of the war in Ukraine and its undeniable strategic importance now and in the foreseeable future as a resource rich entity. (1.) Russia’s conduct of the Ukraine is dictated by clear strategic objective of demilitarization and denazification which mandates a war of attrition and not necessarily one of immediate territorial acquisition, and therefore minimization of its own war casualties. (2.) Focus on high grade war weaponry technology that can more than sufficiently and overwhelming pose a deterrent to a potential enemy, be it USA or China. (3.) Self reliant in resourcing material, labor and technology. Whereas, it may not wield the level of human resource and economic wealth and potential of China it may remain militarily superior in weaponry for the foreseeable future. (4.) Once the “dollar” prop is removed from the USA economy it’s military and economic strength will have been dealt a crippling, if not a fatal wound. The professor needs to shed himself of this blinder and arrogant sense of exaggeration of American superiority !

[@robhaythorne4464]

Mearsheimer was never wrapped too tightly in the first place. He is completely addled now. Can't recognize the facts on the ground, let alone the writing on the wall.

[@williamplayfair364]

he's been drinking too much Russian propaganda. he is turning into one.

[@matthewspears3786]

This war is closest to WW1 in terms of it being about attrition, artillery and trench warfare. It actually started in 2014, so a large amount of defensive lines had been created. Because it's a war of attrition, it's the statistics that matter. Ukranian casulties outnumber Russian ones by a factor of ~8 to 1. Russia is not running out of ammution and supplies while Ukraine is. It says something that Bakhmut and other places are falling; like WW1, it's a sign that the war of attrition is nearing its end. Keep in mind that the GDP of Ukraine has fallen by 50%. It relies completely on US funding not just for war but for government salaries. It's lost 10 million citizens, close to a third of its totally population, and the high casualties have resulted in a very large percentage of young males permanently disabled. I don't see the US committing to fund Ukraine unless it still fights, so if and when it falls, it will be left to its own devices. All this is saying I don't see this as being a perpetual and frozen conflict. Russia is winning and likely Ukraine will collapse within 6 months. I'm not cheering on either side as we're talking millions of people's lives destroyed. The only question is where the border with Russia will be. If there's no security guantees, I'm guessing Russia will go to the Dnieper river and maybe take Odessa. They take de-nazification seriously and may put up a client state in the remaining part of Ukraine, but will not invest heavily in reconstruction without guarantees Ukraine will not turn hostile in the future. On the military side, I recommend channels such as the New Atlas, Douglas Macgregor, and Scott Ritter. Look for those who talk numbers and logistics instead of propaganda. I value John Meirsheimer's political take but he's not a military analyst.

[@joe_ninety_one5076]

'They take denazification seriously'. So why are they run by nazis? "The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists".

[@_.YouTubeBad_.]

Every prediction Douglas MacGregor has made has always been completely wrong, Douglas is just some old geezer who misses his glory days and tells his differential opinions in order to inflate his ego and make him look smart, when in reality he knows nothing because he’s been saying Ukraine will fall any day now since the start of the war.

[@blazingkhalif2]

So delusional and seeing that you get your news from Russian propagandists I'm not surprised.

[@dildo196]

another winner is the military industrial complex of allot of nations. and what does "disfunctional rump-state" mean? is ukraine going to be like haiti? honduras? yemen? syria? lybia? etc etc. or is going to be "disfunctional" like south-korea (also a "rump-state'')? I think it's going to be something in the middle since they still control major cities and ports. time will tell if ukraine will have better institutions after this war. mearsheimer tends to have too much of these edgy contrarian takes but still interesting.

[@erikrobillard6950]

just imagine if they did'nt live under sanctions for so many years.

[@CarlosAntonio-kv2xe]

Is anyone considering the delivery of the invaded ukrainian land to United Nations administration for a period of, let's say, 20 or 30 years, after which this land would be delivered according to the result of a fair and clean referendum? There are several countries that are not involved in this war (Switzerland, India, Austria, Brazil, Israel, Indonesia, Ireland, etc.) that could participate in keeping the peace and run those territories in the meantime. Otherwise, it's like the man says, this war is not really going to end - the conflict will remain somehow for generations, like in Korea or in Palestine.

[@TheForeverAddicted]

UN Security Council refused to investigate the Nord Stream 2 bombing. It's probably like your last sentence.

[@rkkhelensingh6491]

S of now d war sud b stop immediately with no condition frm both end n after dat all possible condition frm both sud b discuss. n during that If russia denied to fall back frm ukrain then ukrain sud immediately join nato n let nato troops protect ukraine further on. But i dnt think russia will agree s putin will face heat frm its people that if russian doesnt get anything then no point going to war with ukraine at d cost of many russian army lives

[@icestationzebra8636]

I have seen very few UN peacekeeping projects work. Ever. That is because of the two involved in the conflict then use their intelligence arms to do everything they can to help the plan fail. Then your back to fighting or a trajectory toward further conflict and UN peacekeeper casualties. Those plans always are a horrible idea. Only Korea worked because the UN backed the west in the South and China accepted the ceasefire because of the buffer it got to its border. Now we have a thriving South and a starving North. No thanks.

[@cheeto8960]

The US blocks negotiations since they control high level people in the Ukraine government, 3rd parties can't participate in that relationship

[@chriswong9158]

Better offer: Russia offer Poland, Western parts to Dnipro River. Moldova, Southern parts to Dnipro River. Russia keep the rest of Ukraine & Kyiv capital and the issue of NATO would be resolve. This issue will end, sooner then later. Issue of Korea, only reason because US Gen. MacArthur offer Nuke into the conflict and China could not defend, not like Vietnam, China help end with a winner. Issue of Palestine, don't you think Israel is a bad example of peace in Ukraine. Beside Palestine like Ukraine, it is only supported by other middle eastern nations to "check" Israel on the board. Not to win, but not to loose but to die little by little for other Nations.

[@Notme012]

It’s so funny that people think Ukraine needs to give up land. Like what would India do if Pakistan took 20% of India no that’s outrageous so why does Ukraine have to do it.

[@19SaD82]

Those are russian trolls. Sitting in some troll factory in Vladivostok and earning a potatoe a day by posting nonsense. No one cares what they vomit into the internet.

[@diksh777]

Your comment make zero sense.

[@anomalianomali5080]

Are pakistan as powerful as russia & india as weak as ukraine?

[@19SaD82]

@@anomalianomali5080 That's not the answer to the question. How about answering it instead of trying to deflect? Would India waive 10 or 20 or 30 percent of its own soil in a peace deal with any other nation? Even more so: If it isn't necessary? (Besides: Ukraine is the stronger part in this war.)

[@diksh777]

@@19SaD82 your answer is- it's India we are not Ukraine and Russia we are indians. For understand this you will need deep research.

[@jacobbnjmn]

India and China would do well to mend its fences, and get on as brothers. Not to do so would be to the detriment of India, for sure, and China too. You don't want the US meddling in that region in any shape or form

[@cherowa]

Mind Quebec, Canada did not let go of it, regardless of language, religion Charles de Gaulle and/or culture!

[@cavaradossi7761]

Quebec held countless referenda over the years. They were hotly contested, but they were FREE and truly expressed the will of the people. Quebec separatists lost all of them so Quebec remained within the Canadian federation. If nothing else, they realized that their interests were better served within rather than outside Canada. No one kept Quebec in Canada against it will.

[@cherowa]

Mr. cavaradossi: Nobody mentioned or implied "Against its will"

[@cavaradossi7761]

@@cherowa what does "canada did not let it go imply?"