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John Mearsheimer tells Glenn Diesen that the end-of-history moment failed once unipolarity gave way to a multipolar order of the United States, China, and Russia, and that a liberal international order cannot hold when two of the three great powers are not liberal democracies. He says Europe's nightmare is poisoned relations with Russia after an ugly Russian victory in Ukraine, and the chance that the American pacifier leaves Europe for East Asia.
Mearsheimer argues Russia treats the war as an existential threat and will not lose, and that Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil push Moscow to wreck Ukraine as a functioning state. He ties Trump's diesel deal and pressure on Zelensky to the Iran war and the world economy, and he expects Trump to back off cutting intelligence and Starlink. He also says the Houthis are hitting Saudi oil routes, including Yanbu, that another short bombing campaign will not do what a 40-day campaign failed to do, and that wars are much easier to start than to end.
Mearsheimer argues Russia treats the war as an existential threat and will not lose, and that Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil push Moscow to wreck Ukraine as a functioning state. He ties Trump's diesel deal and pressure on Zelensky to the Iran war and the world economy, and he expects Trump to back off cutting intelligence and Starlink. He also says the Houthis are hitting Saudi oil routes, including Yanbu, that another short bombing campaign will not do what a 40-day campaign failed to do, and that wars are much easier to start than to end.