Hi everyone and welcome. I hope you're having a great day. Today I am joined by Alexander Mercuris

and John Meersheimer to make sense of the current chaos and yeah, the world appears to be

getting crazier by the day. I guess the big story obviously was passed now, but the Oval Office spat, but we

also seen that this has to be seen in a wider context, I guess, because Trump really is

determined, I think, to end the war in Ukraine.

And he also demonstrate that it's prepared to mount a lot of pressure.

Now we're seeing that U.S. cut cut military aid as well as access to its intelligence

to the Ukrainians. And it also appeared that they're winning over some support among the

Europeans. At least, yes, some countries are coming along and having some hopes for Italy,

but the Europeans still, this is, majority are still

apparently determined to fill America's shoes and keep the war going. I guess a good place

to start is this pure fantasy? Do the Europeans have the weapons, money? If we couldn't do it

with the Americans, is this a serious proposition that we can take on the Russians on our own? How do you

guys look this, I guess, act of desperation perhaps from the Europeans? Well, I'll just say very quickly that, as you said, Glenn, if we couldn't beat the Russians,

in effect we couldn't stop the Russian steamroller with the Americans, the Europeans and the Ukrainians working together,

it's hard to imagine how you can take the Americans out of the equation

and the Europeans can pick up the slack and we can at least restore where we are in terms of

support. It's just not going to happen. The Europeans don't have the wherewithal to give to the Ukrainians to make up for

the loss of American military support.

And their militaries are in rather bad shape.

It's not like, you know, the British and the French have formidable military forces

that can be used for whatever purpose in terms of dealing with the Russians.

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