Talking Israel with the Judge
On 4 February 2025, I was on Judge Napolitano’s show talking about Trump’s policies toward Israel and Ukraine. This was just before Trump announced his plan to have the U.S. military conduct another Nakba and then turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” So we did not discuss this ludicrous and profoundly immoral plan the president dreamed up. That will have to wait until my next appearance.
Trump is trying to 'groom' global public opinion to accept Israeli annexation. The NYT frames the issue as 'it won't work' but at least Trump has focused attention on what happens to Gaza after the war and confirms the conclusion that the old 'paradimi hasn't worked. This insidious attempt to soften Trump's ludicrous plans show both confusion at the NYT and its historic muddling of two opposite political narratives. The liberal establishment searches for a way out.
All of these discussions point to and reemphasize the fact that we in the US should have been taking John Mearsheimer’s advice from the start on all of these matters.
I would argue that in the same way that we in the US should have been listening to John Mearsheimer all along, humanity should be listening to what I’ve had to say.
It’s interesting that during the unipolar moment what John Mearsheimer had to say seemed irrelevant because realism had been put on the back burner. Now that the world has changed to a multipolarity realism it has come roaring back. This coupled with the establishment of a a set of much more widely broadcast alternative news source outlets has given John much more of a voice.
This is a good thing but unfortunately our leaders don’t have the wisdom to follow John’s advice.
I would argue that the same could be said of what I’m trying to convey.
Unfortunately the net result of not listening to John Mearsheimer has resulted in a huge amount of unnecessary and senseless death and destruction.
And with the advent of artificial intelligence (among other things) the net result of not listening to what I have to say will most likely result in the complete demise of the human race as a species.