MEARSHEIMER: ‘Desperate’ Zelensky Wants to Drag U.S. into War With Russia
Zelensky has been appealing to the U.S. to provide long-range missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia
John Mearsheimer, the professor and co-author of “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, told Judge Andrew Napolitano’s podcast on Thursday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is growing more desperate by the day and his only recourse is to try and spark a war between the U.S. and Russia.
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“Russians versus the Ukrainians and it's quite clear the Russians are going to win,” Mearsheimer said. “Russians versus the Ukrainians and NATO on the battlefield, it may be the case that the Russians even lose.”
Zelensky has been appealing to the U.S. to provide long-range missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia. U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday that Washington is close to signing an agreement for such a shipment, but it first needs to iron out some of the technical issues.
Three sources told the outlet that sending JASSMs to Ukraine “could significantly alter the strategic landscape of the conflict by putting more of Russia in range of powerful, precision-guided munitions, an important concern of the Biden administration.”
Mearsheimer said he does not believe Zelensky thinks that these missiles will make any real difference on the battlefield.
“That's not going to happen,” he said. “We don’t have enough missiles to give them…they won’t do that much damage. What he wants to do is he wants to cross a Russian red line, get the Russians to overreact…and then that will drag the Americans in. And he believes that will pull his chestnuts out of the fire. So that’s what’s going on here. The Americans are, of course, fully aware of this….and they’re going to great lengths to make sure that we don’t end up in a war with Russia.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin told a panel at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Thursday that the U.S. and allies miscalculated when they assumed that they could deliver a “strategic defeat” to Russia, and convinced Ukraine not to agree to the Istanbul peace deal in 2022.
Putin downplayed any significance of Ukraine’s recent incursion on Kursk, indicating that Kyiv made a mistake.
“The enemy’s goal was to make us nervous and worry and to transfer troops from one sector to another and stop our offensive in key areas, primarily in the Donbas,” Putin said, according to The New York Times. “Did it work or no? No.”
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: It is worth noting to our readers, that trend forecasting is not what you want to happen or what you believe is fair… it is what it is. The Trends Journal managed to accurately forecast that Ukraine would lose against Russia because its military is no match to Russia’s world-class force. That is not to say the Ukrainians lack bravery or skill—it is just that they lack the capabilities and the manpower.