Welcome to today's program. My name is Glenn Dyson. I'm a professor of political science.

With me is Alexander Mercuris from the very popular and informative Duran podcast.

And the guest today is John Meerschheimer.

So, yeah, Merchheimer is a political realist, thus arguing that international politics is best

understood as the security competition among the great powers.

And since 2014, I would say Merchheimer has been a leading voice, if not their leading

voice, academic voice, on the Ukrainian war.

And his main argument has been very straightforward.

Russia considers NATO to be an existential threat in Ukraine, and Russia will therefore react

much in the same way.

The US will probably react if Russia or China put their military in Mexico.

So, thus, after the Western back coup in 2014, Mersheimer spent the next eight years,

I would say, warning around the world that are the determination to pull Ukraine into NATO

meant that we have put Ukraine on the path to destruction by effectively provoking a Russian

invasion.

So I would say, unfortunately, all his warnings and predictions came true.

But yeah, Professor Meersheimer, welcome. It's a great privilege to have you on.

It's my pleasure to be here with the two of you.

So we really want to start off the discussion by focusing on where we currently are in this Ukrainian offensive.

And yeah, you have a new article out with the title Bound to Lose, which is of course revealing,

in which you argue that the big counteroffensive that we were arming Ukrainians for was destined to fail. I was hoping you

could elaborate and explain. Well, I think that what had happened here, Glenn, is that the war

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