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00:00In just two months, the US president has seemingly upended traditional allies, publicly pressured
00:07Ukraine and opened the door to friendlier relations with Russia.
00:13So Professor Mearsheimer, let me ask you, is this a historic moment in this realignment?
00:19Or is this just the fleeting whim of an unpredictable US president?
00:24Donald Trump certainly is unpredictable in lots of ways, but I think this is, to use
00:31your language, a historical moment.
00:35I think there's no question that Trump has completely abandoned Joe Biden's policies
00:44on Ukraine and on Russia and has adopted a policy or a set of policies that are the exact
00:53opposite.
00:55What he wants to do, first of all, is significantly improve relations between the United States
01:02and Russia.
01:05He wants the United States and Russia to have a rapprochement, to have friendly relations
01:10again.
01:11And this is the exact opposite of Biden.
01:14And furthermore, I think that Trump understands that the United States and the West more generally
01:21and Ukraine have lost in the war.