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<blockquote data-quote="Frank Underwood" data-source="post: 419450" data-attributes="member: 35">American political scientist John Mearsheimer was asked if Putin would feel emboldened to invade other countries in Eastern Europe.&nbsp; This was his response:&quot;Well, I think with regard to your first question, Putin has no interest in conquering all of Ukraine, much less conquering countries in Eastern Europe.He has never said he had any interest in conquering all of Ukraine, much less recreating the Soviet Union or anything like that. Furthermore, he simply doesn&#039;t have the capability to do that. You can see how much trouble he has had just conquering the Eastern one-fifth of Ukraine.The idea that this is the Wehrmacht and it&#039;s highly poised to overrun Europe is not a serious argument. He wants a big chunk of territory in Eastern Europe, and he is in all likelihood going to get that, in large part because he&#039;s winning on the battlefield.One of the reasons that Trump is now cutting our losses is that Trump and his lieutenants understand that we have lost on the battlefield. Or, to put it in slightly different terms, the Ukrainians have lost. We have no leverage anymore. Trump is facing up to reality. So I don&#039;t think there&#039;s any danger of Vladimir Putin finishing off Eastern Ukraine and then moving into Western Ukraine and then moving into Eastern Europe.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Frank Underwood, post: 419450, member: 35"] American political scientist John Mearsheimer was asked if Putin would feel emboldened to invade other countries in Eastern Europe. This was his response: "Well, I think with regard to your first question, Putin has no interest in conquering all of Ukraine, much less conquering countries in Eastern Europe. He has never said he had any interest in conquering all of Ukraine, much less recreating the Soviet Union or anything like that. Furthermore, he simply doesn't have the capability to do that. You can see how much trouble he has had just conquering the Eastern one-fifth of Ukraine. The idea that this is the Wehrmacht and it's highly poised to overrun Europe is not a serious argument. He wants a big chunk of territory in Eastern Europe, and he is in all likelihood going to get that, in large part because he's winning on the battlefield. One of the reasons that Trump is now cutting our losses is that Trump and his lieutenants understand that we have lost on the battlefield. Or, to put it in slightly different terms, the Ukrainians have lost. We have no leverage anymore. Trump is facing up to reality. So I don't think there's any danger of Vladimir Putin finishing off Eastern Ukraine and then moving into Western Ukraine and then moving into Eastern Europe." [/QUOTE]

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