Despite the talk of staying the course by Western officials over the Ukraine conflict, there’re signs of growing fatigue and frustration, hesitation and even a possible decrease in political and financial support to Kyiv. Could this mean peace talks in the near future? How long will the deadlock continue? Meanwhile, how will the U.S. unconditional support to Israel in the Gaza conflict impact its global posturing? And after the summit between President Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden in early November in San Francisco, could we finally begin to see an improvement in China-U.S. ties?

In this edition of Dialogue to break down these major geo-political issues this year, we had an exclusive interview with political science professor John Mearsheimer from the University of Chicago.