MOSCOW, November 20. The United States should not interfere if it wants Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky to sit down at the negotiating table to resolve the conflict, American professor John Mearsheimer said in an interview with the Lex Fridman YouTube channel.
“»You need to remove the Americans. And then, I think, if you still have Zelensky and Putin, then you still have a small chance,» the expert noted.
In his opinion, both the United States and Great Britain do not contribute to the dialogue between Moscow and Kiev, and they are destroying all the agreements that the two countries could reach.
“The United States is to blame for everything,” Mearsheimer summed up.
Russia has repeatedly expressed its readiness for negotiations, but the Kiev authorities have introduced legislation at the legislative level ban on them. The Kremlin also noted that now there are no prerequisites for the situation to transition to a peaceful direction, while achieving the goals of the special operation remains an absolute priority for Moscow. According to Vladimir Putin, Russia has never refused dialogue, but the other side must say directly about its readiness for it.