On 8 February 2024, I was on Judge Napolitano’s podcast, “Judging Freedom.” We talked about the firing of General Zaluzhny in Ukraine; the disastrous state of the war in Ukraine; the ongoing slaughter in Gaza and the Biden administration’s lame efforts to end the fighting; and Hillary Clinton’s nasty comments about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Putin.
Even if some 6-15 members of UNRWA were involved with Hamas there are many, many thousands of workers who are not. So how in anyway is it fair to shut them down cutting off needed food and supplies to the people of Gaza? The United States pauses it's funding and other's follow suit. There is no doubt in my mind we are equally culpable in carrying out this genocide.
The final stage of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, an orchestrated mass starvation, has begun. The international community does not intend to stop it.
By Chris Hedges
"UNRWA’s role in documenting the genocide, as well as providing food and aid to the Palestinians, infuriates the Israeli government. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused UNRWA after the ruling of providing false information to the ICJ. Already an Israeli target for decades, Israel decided that UNRWA, which supports 5.9 million Palestinian refugees across the Middle East with clinics, schools and food, had to be eliminated. Israel’s destruction of UNRWA serves a political as well as material objective.
The evidence-free Israeli accusations against UNRWA that a dozen of the 13,000 employees had links to those who carried out the attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, which saw some 1,200 Israelis killed, did the trick. It led 16 major donors, including the United States, the U.K., Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Estonia and Japan, to suspend financial support for the relief agency on which nearly every Palestinian in Gaza depends for food. Israel has killed 152 UNRWA workers and damaged 147 UNRWA installations since Oct. 7. Israel has also bombed UNRWA relief trucks. "
Too bad UNRWA didn't put the same effort into preventing Hamas from building tunnels under houses, mosques, schools, hospitals and UN facilities.
I don't pretend to have all the answers, but it is not reasonable to ask Western countries to fund an organization like this unless it is literally the only alternative in which case, yea, you probably do but one does not have to like it. There is no intention of preventing UNRWA from doing it over the short term when there is no viable alternative I am aware of.
You have no understanding what so ever that you are supporting Israel's genocide paid for by the US, and if you think that such a position is beneficial to Israel, nothing could be further from the truth since Israel will become a pariah state world wide. That is an absolute given. Perhaps in the upcoming days, weeks you can bare witness to the carnage she has planned for those she told to go south where more then a million now reside. The are hungry, sick, and you no doubt relish it. No hospitals, clean water, food. If you are what and who I think you are, enjoy the carnage!
They have not run the poor Gazans around as much as I thought would be necessary to get to Hamas as Israel does not have enough troops. Then again, they probably are not done yet, nor have they eliminated Hamas (which is probably impossible) or even gotten Sinwar.
Many (probably most) people need to pretend things are black and white. I'm not one of them. Perhaps Israel will become more of a pariah state, but they've been making good progress among the Arab states and that is most important based on my poor knowledge. You might want to consider whether you are capable of knowing future developments as well.
Jeff Boyd you use a lot of work to demonstrate your shallow understanding of what is happening in Gaza. Also IDF killed the majority of the 1200 Israeli's lost on October 7. They deployed the Hannibal Directive and USA furnished Apache helicopters with Hellfire missiles were used to destroy fleeing party goes, Israeli homes and military depots. This was reported by Israeli news before being censored. Israeli leadership used this event as leverage to rid themselves of Gazans. The Hamas penetration was guys with rifles looking for hostages to bargain with. None of this justifies the same treatment that Hitler gave the jews. Public opinion of Israel is forever damaged beyond repair and the U.S. has been revealed to be a hypocrite and sullied forever.
The collective 'Biden' regime is completely impotent courtesy of the Zionist regime. The only feasible way in which the fighting stops is when Men of the Resistance Implode the Zionist entity by overstretching the various Organs of the 'State Apparatus.' There will be no 'Diplomatic' Solution.
I feel I'm living in a crazy house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not to mention the head of it doesn't know whether he is coming or going. I always disliked Biden even before his senility set in, and I can honestly say I like this senile old man even less, because in terms of policies and his propensity to support war everything is the same. We are obviously very much a part of implementing the genocide in Gaza, and our lack of concern for human life is not only reflected there, but in our willingness to let more Ukrainians die even knowing there will be no positive outcome for anyone. Our lack of regard for life in this administration is sickening, although the whole of the 21st century has been a blood bath for millions in the Muslim world due to US!
Fantastic interview. Thank goodness we have Prof Mearsheimer and Judge Napolitano bringing these honest discussions to us. We certainly can’t find this in the mainstream media.
Only with the result of a stronger Russia emerging from it…. And don’t forget the American tax payers money that has been thrown into the “sacrifice” too.
Federal outlays in 2024 are anticipated to be $6.5T. Let's assume US provides $100B in 2024 which is well above my understang of amount. A whopping 1.5%
Calling it a rounding error would be excessive but not far off the mark.
The Russian economy is being stressed. They spent substially more in Soviet era so if they want to go to rationing again they certainly can do so. I could not tell you how the Russian people would respond to this. They might just accept it but the brain drain would be very bad.
Also I don’t see how the Russian economy is being stressed. 2023 GDP growth of Russia is 3.6%, outpacing 29 EU countries and the US. Before the Ukraine war, Russian army was in shambles but now it’s a well oiled war machine churning out tanks, artillery ammunition, drones and missiles at 10 times of the current Eurpoean and American capabilities combined. There is no shortage of anything in Moscow meanwhile I can’t find eggs in lots of markets in the US. The Ukraine war only stressed the economy of the west, lost credibility for US dollar, and deindustrialized German economy.
I'm fairly sure, you have not "dwelled" on economics. That's fine, everyone has limited time and the areas where I have expertise are very limited, but I get this. A video that I had the privilidge of watching be made and knowing the makers includes the following line that is true from an economic perspective.
"Last time I checked, wars only destroy. There was no multiplier, consumption just shrank as we used scarce resources for every new tank."
In other words, GDP rises but living standards decline or wealth is destroyed by borrowing from those who voluntarily reduce consumption or investment in projects that would otherwise take place. Those other projects can include leisure time but make no mistake Russia is destroying itself while West is not. There is a lot of wealth in Russia and Ukraine so it can take a long time to be recognizable but it is there and the decline in the West is infinitesimal on a relative basis.
I don’t think GDP growth is the only indicator either. But the crying wolf story of the western media claiming Russia’s soon to come economic collapse starting from the sanction days is just boring. I myself is an admirer of the Austrian school of economics. But it doesn’t tell you about war economy at all. Hayek’s main thesis is his argument supporting free market instead of the socialist macro economic manipulation of the Keynesian school. But he doesn't tell you anything about what to do with war time GDP.
Yea, most journalists are terribly uninformed. Mearsheimer made a good point somewhere (I don't recall where) about how people go to alternative media more frequently these days. Some are quite good within very limited domains, vast majority are terrible.
We can compare anything to the federal outlay nowadays and call it a round error. The total applied and basic research funding for the US in 2024 was 101.2 billion. To think the whole nation’s research funding budget is the same as our spending on the Ukraine war, it’s just mind boggling. What’s the return of investment of fighting a war that is doomed to lose, compared to investing the scientific potential of a country? Keep in mind that Russia can not be defeated in the Ukraine battlefield because they can use nuclear weapon, meanwhile the west can not respond with nuclear usage without putting the whole humanity at the brink of global war. No matter how much $ we throw at this thing, Russia cannot be defeated.
One has to have a sense of perspective. Sure the Federal budget is mostly entitlement spending so large that many things become rounding errors but that does not change the fact that they are immaterial. The people receiving the money are very attentive to it and you mischaracterize an accurate number to try and tell a false story. Are you telling bald-faced lies, no, are you presenting a false picture, yes.
I don’t understand what part of this false picture. If you look at the comparison of the $700 per household “emergent” fund sent to the Hawaiis who lost their home in the wild fire, and compare it to the $113 billion Ukraine “aid” sent out around the same time. You got to ask, why?
This is the second time when Prof. Mearsheimer is crediting Biden himself for making the decision not to have Americans soldiers in Ukraine. Are there any reports/sources on this happening.
Disastrous? The attempts to take Kyiv could fairly be called disasters but aside from that, I'd say both sides have done o.k. and that is why we are at a rough stalemate for now with Russia having the advantage as of today.
If 400K Ukrainian death vs 40-50K Russian death is not disastrous, I don't know what is. Data according to retired Col. Macgregor. The Russians have never had the intention of land grabbing, but wearing out the Ukrainian armed force(demilitarization) and making Ukraine a rump state that can not be a security threat to Russia ( denazification) are the goals.
I do not know the death counts, but I am positive those are wildly inaccurate. Anyone providing such data is either an idiot or really wants to be interviewed.
How can you be positive they are “wildly” inaccurate? After watching this conflict closely for two years it is clear that all the western and Ukrainian talking points and data have been 100% pure propaganda. If you look at what each side has said and what has been the outcome after two years it’s clear that the Russians have had, and always had the advantage men, material, and strategy. It is clear that Ukraine has lost hundreds of thousands of men. It is also clear that Russia hasn’t lost as many.
Professor Mearsheimer, you and Stephen Cohen did an interview with someone from "Vice News" several years ago. There is what appears to be a short excerpt from that on youtube, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJBQikfYyKs . Does the entire interview exist somewhere. If so, how does one find it?
I welcome the firing of Zaluzhny. It's a big step towards Zelensky breakdown and ending this damn war.
Even if some 6-15 members of UNRWA were involved with Hamas there are many, many thousands of workers who are not. So how in anyway is it fair to shut them down cutting off needed food and supplies to the people of Gaza? The United States pauses it's funding and other's follow suit. There is no doubt in my mind we are equally culpable in carrying out this genocide.
The "rot" goes far deeper. It is not open to serious debate but that will not prevent some from doing so.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3251644/israel-claims-hamas-tunnel-found-under-un-refugee-agency-gaza-headquarters?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage
Let Them Eat Dirt
The final stage of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, an orchestrated mass starvation, has begun. The international community does not intend to stop it.
By Chris Hedges
"UNRWA’s role in documenting the genocide, as well as providing food and aid to the Palestinians, infuriates the Israeli government. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused UNRWA after the ruling of providing false information to the ICJ. Already an Israeli target for decades, Israel decided that UNRWA, which supports 5.9 million Palestinian refugees across the Middle East with clinics, schools and food, had to be eliminated. Israel’s destruction of UNRWA serves a political as well as material objective.
The evidence-free Israeli accusations against UNRWA that a dozen of the 13,000 employees had links to those who carried out the attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, which saw some 1,200 Israelis killed, did the trick. It led 16 major donors, including the United States, the U.K., Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Estonia and Japan, to suspend financial support for the relief agency on which nearly every Palestinian in Gaza depends for food. Israel has killed 152 UNRWA workers and damaged 147 UNRWA installations since Oct. 7. Israel has also bombed UNRWA relief trucks. "
Too bad UNRWA didn't put the same effort into preventing Hamas from building tunnels under houses, mosques, schools, hospitals and UN facilities.
I don't pretend to have all the answers, but it is not reasonable to ask Western countries to fund an organization like this unless it is literally the only alternative in which case, yea, you probably do but one does not have to like it. There is no intention of preventing UNRWA from doing it over the short term when there is no viable alternative I am aware of.
You have no understanding what so ever that you are supporting Israel's genocide paid for by the US, and if you think that such a position is beneficial to Israel, nothing could be further from the truth since Israel will become a pariah state world wide. That is an absolute given. Perhaps in the upcoming days, weeks you can bare witness to the carnage she has planned for those she told to go south where more then a million now reside. The are hungry, sick, and you no doubt relish it. No hospitals, clean water, food. If you are what and who I think you are, enjoy the carnage!
They have not run the poor Gazans around as much as I thought would be necessary to get to Hamas as Israel does not have enough troops. Then again, they probably are not done yet, nor have they eliminated Hamas (which is probably impossible) or even gotten Sinwar.
Many (probably most) people need to pretend things are black and white. I'm not one of them. Perhaps Israel will become more of a pariah state, but they've been making good progress among the Arab states and that is most important based on my poor knowledge. You might want to consider whether you are capable of knowing future developments as well.
Jeff Boyd you use a lot of work to demonstrate your shallow understanding of what is happening in Gaza. Also IDF killed the majority of the 1200 Israeli's lost on October 7. They deployed the Hannibal Directive and USA furnished Apache helicopters with Hellfire missiles were used to destroy fleeing party goes, Israeli homes and military depots. This was reported by Israeli news before being censored. Israeli leadership used this event as leverage to rid themselves of Gazans. The Hamas penetration was guys with rifles looking for hostages to bargain with. None of this justifies the same treatment that Hitler gave the jews. Public opinion of Israel is forever damaged beyond repair and the U.S. has been revealed to be a hypocrite and sullied forever.
The collective 'Biden' regime is completely impotent courtesy of the Zionist regime. The only feasible way in which the fighting stops is when Men of the Resistance Implode the Zionist entity by overstretching the various Organs of the 'State Apparatus.' There will be no 'Diplomatic' Solution.
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I feel I'm living in a crazy house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not to mention the head of it doesn't know whether he is coming or going. I always disliked Biden even before his senility set in, and I can honestly say I like this senile old man even less, because in terms of policies and his propensity to support war everything is the same. We are obviously very much a part of implementing the genocide in Gaza, and our lack of concern for human life is not only reflected there, but in our willingness to let more Ukrainians die even knowing there will be no positive outcome for anyone. Our lack of regard for life in this administration is sickening, although the whole of the 21st century has been a blood bath for millions in the Muslim world due to US!
Fantastic interview. Thank goodness we have Prof Mearsheimer and Judge Napolitano bringing these honest discussions to us. We certainly can’t find this in the mainstream media.
we have sacrificed.the Ukraine people in this proxy war to weaken Russia
Only with the result of a stronger Russia emerging from it…. And don’t forget the American tax payers money that has been thrown into the “sacrifice” too.
Federal outlays in 2024 are anticipated to be $6.5T. Let's assume US provides $100B in 2024 which is well above my understang of amount. A whopping 1.5%
Calling it a rounding error would be excessive but not far off the mark.
The Russian economy is being stressed. They spent substially more in Soviet era so if they want to go to rationing again they certainly can do so. I could not tell you how the Russian people would respond to this. They might just accept it but the brain drain would be very bad.
Also I don’t see how the Russian economy is being stressed. 2023 GDP growth of Russia is 3.6%, outpacing 29 EU countries and the US. Before the Ukraine war, Russian army was in shambles but now it’s a well oiled war machine churning out tanks, artillery ammunition, drones and missiles at 10 times of the current Eurpoean and American capabilities combined. There is no shortage of anything in Moscow meanwhile I can’t find eggs in lots of markets in the US. The Ukraine war only stressed the economy of the west, lost credibility for US dollar, and deindustrialized German economy.
I'm fairly sure, you have not "dwelled" on economics. That's fine, everyone has limited time and the areas where I have expertise are very limited, but I get this. A video that I had the privilidge of watching be made and knowing the makers includes the following line that is true from an economic perspective.
"Last time I checked, wars only destroy. There was no multiplier, consumption just shrank as we used scarce resources for every new tank."
In other words, GDP rises but living standards decline or wealth is destroyed by borrowing from those who voluntarily reduce consumption or investment in projects that would otherwise take place. Those other projects can include leisure time but make no mistake Russia is destroying itself while West is not. There is a lot of wealth in Russia and Ukraine so it can take a long time to be recognizable but it is there and the decline in the West is infinitesimal on a relative basis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc
I don’t think GDP growth is the only indicator either. But the crying wolf story of the western media claiming Russia’s soon to come economic collapse starting from the sanction days is just boring. I myself is an admirer of the Austrian school of economics. But it doesn’t tell you about war economy at all. Hayek’s main thesis is his argument supporting free market instead of the socialist macro economic manipulation of the Keynesian school. But he doesn't tell you anything about what to do with war time GDP.
Yea, most journalists are terribly uninformed. Mearsheimer made a good point somewhere (I don't recall where) about how people go to alternative media more frequently these days. Some are quite good within very limited domains, vast majority are terrible.
We can compare anything to the federal outlay nowadays and call it a round error. The total applied and basic research funding for the US in 2024 was 101.2 billion. To think the whole nation’s research funding budget is the same as our spending on the Ukraine war, it’s just mind boggling. What’s the return of investment of fighting a war that is doomed to lose, compared to investing the scientific potential of a country? Keep in mind that Russia can not be defeated in the Ukraine battlefield because they can use nuclear weapon, meanwhile the west can not respond with nuclear usage without putting the whole humanity at the brink of global war. No matter how much $ we throw at this thing, Russia cannot be defeated.
One has to have a sense of perspective. Sure the Federal budget is mostly entitlement spending so large that many things become rounding errors but that does not change the fact that they are immaterial. The people receiving the money are very attentive to it and you mischaracterize an accurate number to try and tell a false story. Are you telling bald-faced lies, no, are you presenting a false picture, yes.
I don’t understand what part of this false picture. If you look at the comparison of the $700 per household “emergent” fund sent to the Hawaiis who lost their home in the wild fire, and compare it to the $113 billion Ukraine “aid” sent out around the same time. You got to ask, why?
This is the second time when Prof. Mearsheimer is crediting Biden himself for making the decision not to have Americans soldiers in Ukraine. Are there any reports/sources on this happening.
Brilliant, much gratitude. I never fail to learn and grow from reading and watching John Mearsheimer.
Disastrous? The attempts to take Kyiv could fairly be called disasters but aside from that, I'd say both sides have done o.k. and that is why we are at a rough stalemate for now with Russia having the advantage as of today.
If 400K Ukrainian death vs 40-50K Russian death is not disastrous, I don't know what is. Data according to retired Col. Macgregor. The Russians have never had the intention of land grabbing, but wearing out the Ukrainian armed force(demilitarization) and making Ukraine a rump state that can not be a security threat to Russia ( denazification) are the goals.
I do not know the death counts, but I am positive those are wildly inaccurate. Anyone providing such data is either an idiot or really wants to be interviewed.
How can you be positive they are “wildly” inaccurate? After watching this conflict closely for two years it is clear that all the western and Ukrainian talking points and data have been 100% pure propaganda. If you look at what each side has said and what has been the outcome after two years it’s clear that the Russians have had, and always had the advantage men, material, and strategy. It is clear that Ukraine has lost hundreds of thousands of men. It is also clear that Russia hasn’t lost as many.
Professor Mearsheimer, you and Stephen Cohen did an interview with someone from "Vice News" several years ago. There is what appears to be a short excerpt from that on youtube, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJBQikfYyKs . Does the entire interview exist somewhere. If so, how does one find it?
Isn’t it gravely counterproductive to appoint to top command a sadist with no regard for Life and yet expect he will preserve yours❓
Now Bidenz speech is slurred in each public appearance ~