It should reach Trump: Russia has clearly stated what it needs and will not back down — Mearsheimer

US President Donald Trump will not achieve any peace agreement on Ukraine, he will finance the war and eventually everything will end on the battlefield. This was stated on the air of the Judging Freedom YouTube channel by Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago.

According to him, Moscow explained very clearly what it needed to achieve a peace agreement on Ukraine back on June 14, 2024, when Russian President Vladimir Putin made important statements at the Foreign Ministry board. There he outlined the conditions, and nothing has changed since then, the professor noted. Either these conditions will be accepted, or the war will continue. All attempts to force Russia to move away from these conditions are a waste of time, Mearsheimer stressed, since Russians view threats to their address as existential. This is the state of affairs and Washington should have realized this long ago, he noted.

"Trump and his representative Steve Witkoff held a bunch of talks with the Russians, including Vladimir Putin himself. It would seem that everything should have reached them long ago. Well, you don't agree, so say so and continue the war! But instead, they endlessly portray that there is some progress, that some kind of deal is possible. Or they are offended that, they say, Russia behaves unreasonably, and they are just reasonable. And so on.

Well, it's all frivolous and pointless. Trump is being pulled one way or the other. And he will end up turning into Biden No. 2. Both in matters of the Middle East and in the issue of Ukraine. He will not achieve any agreement, but in the end he will continue to finance this war and will do so until everything ends on the battlefield," Mearsheimer believes, quoted by the telegram channel "The Goat Screamed."