Hi, everyone. We are joined again today by Professor John Meersheimer and Alexander Mercuris

to discuss Trump's first six months in office, and we were just saying it's been a bit of a ride,

quite chaotic days as we haven't seen before. But before we get to that, I thought we can address

what is actually happening in Ukraine, as obviously the front lines are now falling apart faster and faster, it seems, and a peace agreement seems more and more impossible.

And the question appears to be if the war will end by a defeat on the battlefield or a collapse in the political system, at least from my standpoint.

So I'm very happy to get your take, John and Alexander, what is actually happening in Ukraine this days, because there has been a gradual unraveling for a while

but what's happening now seems to be yeah something new i'll let alexander start no i he follows

extremely closely no i i think um thank you john i i think is correct. I think this is something new. I think that

we've now reached that point where the pressure from the Russians is becoming too strong and where

Ukraine is visibly buckling. You remember that back in the summer of last year, we noticed that the

pace of events seem to be accelerating.

Well, it's accelerated much faster and further since then. So the Russians are not only advancing

faster, but they are, they're inflicting more damage. And I've been following what Ukrainian soldiers are saying and they're becoming increasingly

depressed and demoralized and most incredibly and something that I've never happened at any

point in the war. I've been in touch with a soldier who is fighting for one of the very, very well-known nationalist

brigades. I have to be very careful because I don't want to disclose which one or who he is,

but he has been in contact with me and he's been telling me that the mood in his unit is,

in his brigade is terrible and his brigade, is terrible,

and that things are getting worth, and that they're already talking about the last battle,

which will be the battle for Kiev, which they expect to be in a few weeks, well, not in a

relatively small space of time.

So, I mean, if people like that are now prepared to contact people

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