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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

8/16/25: John Mearsheimer BREAKS DOWN Trump Putin Summit

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

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Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, Government

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Saagar and Ryan sit down with Professor John Mearsheimer to discuss the Trump Putin summit and where the Ukraine war goes from here.


John Mearsheimer: https://www.mearsheimer.com/

 

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It is Ryan and I here to break down the everything that's gone on in the news. And you may have noticed that we actually have a very special guest. We're very honored to be joined by Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, an intellectual hero of mine and a great friend of the show. Sir, thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate it.

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Thank you for having me. It's my pleasure to be here with you and Ryan. Absolutely, sir.

1:32.0

So we are going to go through with you everything that happened yesterday at the Trump Putin

1:36.7

summit, as well of some of the information that is now coming out as a result. So just for everybody

1:42.6

purposes, we're recording this around 9 a.m.

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Eastern time. Things could obviously change with the diplomatic situation, but this is generally

1:50.2

where things stand as of right now. So Griffin, could we go ahead and start to kind of the show

1:55.6

of the summit where Trump made a big, you know, a grand gesture at the in Alaska at that summit, greeting Putin with the red carpet lined with U.S. fighter jets.

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