Brilliant observations as always. Of course, the Zionists control Trump as his legendary co-written book eloquently noted. Cut the Israeli's loose and largely our problem in the Mid-East will be quelled.
They also controlled Biden, and the democratic party. Neither party is independent of their control, and that's why Mearsheimer says, AIPAC has got to go. If we don't the US will suffer grave consequences since Israel's present lifespan is going to be rather short lived.
Israel has controlled the narrative, more or less, since 1948, with successive US Administrations. The Jewish Lobby controls us wrt to Israeli policy, that's the point of Mearscheimer/Walt's book, as well as erudite tomes by Ilan Pappe, Chomsky, Finklestein, Jeffrey Sachs, Benny Morris, Avi Shlaim, all Jews themselves, but the Jewish Lobby includes many fundamentalist Christian groups who believe that Christ will appear again in Israel, the Promised Land. I see tremendous downsides to our support for Israel and virtually zero upsides. As Dr. M has long noted, what Bibi, who is as corrupt as Trump, has pursued wrt to Gaza is purely and simply genocide. And it continues. The Balfour Declaration, wrongly reasoned, was the genesis of our problems and we supported it and still do, but it is not in the geopolitical interests of the US.
I don't think the lobby began to have a real hold on our elected officials until after the Kennedy years and simply grew over time, and a colonial mindset was in play when the Zionist got "their land without a people." I read Israel does not have the same support among younger fundamentalist Christians, thank god, and I think that trend will continue, and rather quickly. They say some 130,000 Israeli's have left Israel in the last 2 years and I'm sure many hundreds of thousands will eventually leave since their lives have been, and will continue to be diminished economically with a world that has become quite critical of Israel and it's barbarism in regard to the Palestinian people. Interesting that during our 21st century Middle Eastern wars it was acknowledged by some we were fighting those wars for Israel. I remember when Netanyahu was pushing for war with Iraq with the lie they were pursuing the development of nuclear weapons, and Biden pushed that lie and happy to do so, and the democrats bought it, and we had our war on Iraq in 2003. Jeffery Sachs had a sit down with Tucker Carlson and claims the same truth. Netanyahu in his 1995 book, Fighting Terrorism identifies the countries that are a potential threat and didn't we take them out. How is it no one references the fact , that we destroyed those countries for Israel and no doubt many rationalized for our good as well. it wasn't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your observations are clearly in line with mine. Thank you very much for your cogent thoughts. Our mindless support of Israel is antithetical to our interests and largely those of the West.
That’s nonsense. Israel hasn’t “controlled the narrative” — it’s spent 75 years fighting to survive while rejectionist Palestinians, radical Islamists, and their gullible followers keep trying to destroy it.
Blaming a “Jewish lobby” is just recycled antisemitism. The U.S. supports Israel because it’s a democracy that shares our values and fights the same enemies — not because of some secret cabal.
Calling Israel’s war on Hamas “genocide” is obscene. No country warns civilians and drops aid while fighting a terrorist group that hides behind its own people. The real problem isn’t Israel — it’s those who can’t accept its right to exist and keep choosing hate over peace.
The land was at peace before European Jews decided to steal it from the native inhabitants. How come sophists like you always leave out the core reasons for the conflict?
That’s a lazy and false narrative. Jews didn’t “steal” anything — they legally purchased land from Arab owners during the late Ottoman and British periods, often at inflated prices. Before 1948, there was no sovereign Palestinian state to “steal” from. The land was sparsely populated, under foreign rule for centuries — Ottoman, then British — and waves of Jewish and Arab migration reshaped it together.
The violence didn’t begin with Jewish immigration; it began with Arab rejection of any Jewish self-determination. Jews accepted partition in 1947 — Arabs rejected it and launched a war to wipe out the new state. That pattern hasn’t changed: Israel keeps seeking coexistence; its neighbors and terror groups keep choosing destruction.
So no, the “core reason” isn’t theft — it’s rejectionism. The tragedy is that Palestinians could have had a thriving state many times over, if they hadn’t kept trying to erase the one Jewish one.
What I said is the exact opposite of lazy and false. I have put in many thousands of hours of reading on this subject since the 1970s, when I first read a book called "Crossroads to Israel" by Christopher Sykes, which covered exactly that era of the history of that land. Sykes was the son of the Sykes of the Sykes-Picot Agreement that split up the levant between Britain and France after WW1, reneging on the promise of self-determination under which WW1 had been fought, and on explicit promises to the Arabs that they would have the lands they helped free from Ottoman rule.
Sykes was your sort of person, an ardent Zionist who saw the indigenous inhabitants not as human beings but as inconvenient objects in the way of Jews. You would love the book, as it detailed all the cynical strategems (and worse) used to get the Palestinians off the land that they had inhabited certainly for centuries, and as we now know, actually for millenia. (Israeli media from time to time reports the "discovery" that the Palestinians are the direct descendants of the ancient population of Palestine and therefore have more ancient Hebrew blood than European Jews, and wonders what should be done about it.)
Sykes wrote assuming that his readers were racists like you and would quietly approve all those strategems to get rid of the sub-human obstacles. But, being a decent human being, I reacted in the opposite way. The book changed my attitude to Zionism from ignorant mild approval to well-informed hatred. There were years when I often had difficulty sleeping because of shame and anger that, as a Briton, I felt for what Sykes taught me that my country had done to facilitate the evil that you celebrate.
I won't go through all your standard hasbara justifying racist colonialist dispossession and wars of ethnic cleansing and worse. I learnt from the Zionist Sykes that it is all nonsense.
Do you agree when Napolitano references Obama and Biden as being left wing, or that their administrations could be defined as left wing? The democrats presented him that way, but I have never heard left wingers make him one of their own. Forget even talking about Biden being a left winger in his past. He didn't even want busing to create racial balance in schools. He's a proclaimed Zionist, and supported the Iraq war for Netanyahu, and on and on. Not to mention his Putin has got to go comment. The idea that we define the democrats as liberals has got to go, because it's based on little more on making comparisons between them and republicans.
Really defending your country and protecting its citizens defines you as Satan Wow that’s brilliant However if a leader a banded his people I guess you would cocider him a great leader Outstanding logic
I eagerly watch Judge Napolitano's interviews to hear excellent and informed commentary, and Prof. Mearsheimer's segments are one of the major treats of the weekly series.
Pres. Trump's presidency is turning out to be increasingly disappointing---first time around, he could be somewhat forgiven for not understanding DC politics and somewhat at the mercy of unreliable advisors etc., but this term shows that "the buck has to stop here" for Pres. Trump, and whether or not his advisors operate with malicious agendas, it is Trump's incurious nature and weak, volatile, narcissist personality (as well as weakness toward his Zionist backers) that continually interfere with his decision-making. (Nevertheless, he is still vastly better than the previous Democrat regimes...).
Just sending my thanks for your regular sharing of insights and wisdom on Judge Nap's show!
Thank you, President Trump, for the moral clarity that bozos like Mearsheimer and Napolitano completely lack. You recognize the difference between good and evil, between those defending themselves and those who attack. You understand the contrast between nations run by thugs who flood our streets with deadly drugs and those fighting to stop the 80,000 American overdose deaths each year. Thank you for standing firmly with Israel against Hamas and Iran, and for getting tough on Venezuela.
Trump's attack on those ships that killed people, not really knowing if they had drugs on board, used it as a signal to Venezuela that this administration is coming for you! I can even remember the days when America went after Chavez, and nothing to do with drugs! I do think in part it's about oil, and their independence in a world where the US has tried to control every country that is south of their border.
Have you two Gentlemen not heard the SecWar explain clearly that they have the evidence from Assets,contacts about all those go fast boats are loaded with drugs. Trump has said it. Although Not in detail,why would he need to ? Accusing someone of murder should be accompanied by facts, smoking gun facts….What do You have ??? What has nice guy, play soft gotten this country ? In the streets and like places, what works is visiting harsh violence on violence !
I have only a small understanding of the depth of the conversation at hand. However, I do feel that the central tenet of the core behavior of parties involved is brilliantly presented in your treatise, the tragedy of great power politics. Political actors always use a moral basis to justify self serving decisions and military actions, as Machiavelli once said, the prince must appear to be good, generous and honorable all the while acting ruthlessly with no conscience for his enemies, and that it is always better to be feared than to be loved. This sad axiom seems to be true up to this very day, over six hundred years after it was written. I pray everyday for a positive outcome, even though I too take the role of an offensive realist in my view of international relations and statecraft.
Sorry to get off topic. There are youtube videos “Mearsheimer Reality-Analysis Channel” that feature an AI version of you, speaking on various topics. Are they legit, and if not, what can be done about them?
They are operated by low level workers who think they have very cool "too sexy for their shirts" "outlaw" jobs .... They think they're cool jobs they make cash and they're brave for their girlfriends.
mostly, they're very young and sadly expendable to the cartels
Murdering them is unnecessary and cruel.
It must be understood that the drug problem has to be dealt with under a Hydra- headed approach involving attacking supply side production and trafficking
it is important to understand, however, the main thing is to address the demand side
It's the moral rot and decay of humanity the impoverishment of the middle classes through corporate greed causing this demand for these sleazy dangerous drugs. ...
That's what needs to be addressed through higher education and healthcare , churches of all Fairhs play a huge role or I'll put it this way ...should play a huge role in the solutions. ... .
Decapitation might be a good military tactic sometimes, but it is rarely a good political strategy, especially if long-term peace is of concern. However, the current US power-elites do not seem to have much concern about long-term peace or prosperity. If so, then mob justice in Chicago style is certainly well justifiable. But we the people had better recognize this political reality. The power-elites who treat foreign leaders as mud pigeions will treat domestic population the same way.
Coincido totalmente con el análisis del Prof. Mearsheimer. En América Latina podemos hablar con propiedad de la larga historia de intervenciones abiertas o encubiertas de Estados Unidos. La lista es interminable y no importa qué partido estuviera en el poder, siempre se adjudicaron el poder de actuar en lo que ellos consideran como su patio trasero. Si uno mira la historia de Estados Unidos no llama la atención que un país fundado sobre el genocidio de los nativos americanos y el robo de sus tierras, apoye el genocidio de Israel.
Brilliant observations as always. Of course, the Zionists control Trump as his legendary co-written book eloquently noted. Cut the Israeli's loose and largely our problem in the Mid-East will be quelled.
They also controlled Biden, and the democratic party. Neither party is independent of their control, and that's why Mearsheimer says, AIPAC has got to go. If we don't the US will suffer grave consequences since Israel's present lifespan is going to be rather short lived.
Fran,
Israel has controlled the narrative, more or less, since 1948, with successive US Administrations. The Jewish Lobby controls us wrt to Israeli policy, that's the point of Mearscheimer/Walt's book, as well as erudite tomes by Ilan Pappe, Chomsky, Finklestein, Jeffrey Sachs, Benny Morris, Avi Shlaim, all Jews themselves, but the Jewish Lobby includes many fundamentalist Christian groups who believe that Christ will appear again in Israel, the Promised Land. I see tremendous downsides to our support for Israel and virtually zero upsides. As Dr. M has long noted, what Bibi, who is as corrupt as Trump, has pursued wrt to Gaza is purely and simply genocide. And it continues. The Balfour Declaration, wrongly reasoned, was the genesis of our problems and we supported it and still do, but it is not in the geopolitical interests of the US.
I don't think the lobby began to have a real hold on our elected officials until after the Kennedy years and simply grew over time, and a colonial mindset was in play when the Zionist got "their land without a people." I read Israel does not have the same support among younger fundamentalist Christians, thank god, and I think that trend will continue, and rather quickly. They say some 130,000 Israeli's have left Israel in the last 2 years and I'm sure many hundreds of thousands will eventually leave since their lives have been, and will continue to be diminished economically with a world that has become quite critical of Israel and it's barbarism in regard to the Palestinian people. Interesting that during our 21st century Middle Eastern wars it was acknowledged by some we were fighting those wars for Israel. I remember when Netanyahu was pushing for war with Iraq with the lie they were pursuing the development of nuclear weapons, and Biden pushed that lie and happy to do so, and the democrats bought it, and we had our war on Iraq in 2003. Jeffery Sachs had a sit down with Tucker Carlson and claims the same truth. Netanyahu in his 1995 book, Fighting Terrorism identifies the countries that are a potential threat and didn't we take them out. How is it no one references the fact , that we destroyed those countries for Israel and no doubt many rationalized for our good as well. it wasn't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your observations are clearly in line with mine. Thank you very much for your cogent thoughts. Our mindless support of Israel is antithetical to our interests and largely those of the West.
Very nice summation - and What we are NOT taught in school.
That’s nonsense. Israel hasn’t “controlled the narrative” — it’s spent 75 years fighting to survive while rejectionist Palestinians, radical Islamists, and their gullible followers keep trying to destroy it.
Blaming a “Jewish lobby” is just recycled antisemitism. The U.S. supports Israel because it’s a democracy that shares our values and fights the same enemies — not because of some secret cabal.
Calling Israel’s war on Hamas “genocide” is obscene. No country warns civilians and drops aid while fighting a terrorist group that hides behind its own people. The real problem isn’t Israel — it’s those who can’t accept its right to exist and keep choosing hate over peace.
The land was at peace before European Jews decided to steal it from the native inhabitants. How come sophists like you always leave out the core reasons for the conflict?
That’s a lazy and false narrative. Jews didn’t “steal” anything — they legally purchased land from Arab owners during the late Ottoman and British periods, often at inflated prices. Before 1948, there was no sovereign Palestinian state to “steal” from. The land was sparsely populated, under foreign rule for centuries — Ottoman, then British — and waves of Jewish and Arab migration reshaped it together.
The violence didn’t begin with Jewish immigration; it began with Arab rejection of any Jewish self-determination. Jews accepted partition in 1947 — Arabs rejected it and launched a war to wipe out the new state. That pattern hasn’t changed: Israel keeps seeking coexistence; its neighbors and terror groups keep choosing destruction.
So no, the “core reason” isn’t theft — it’s rejectionism. The tragedy is that Palestinians could have had a thriving state many times over, if they hadn’t kept trying to erase the one Jewish one.
What I said is the exact opposite of lazy and false. I have put in many thousands of hours of reading on this subject since the 1970s, when I first read a book called "Crossroads to Israel" by Christopher Sykes, which covered exactly that era of the history of that land. Sykes was the son of the Sykes of the Sykes-Picot Agreement that split up the levant between Britain and France after WW1, reneging on the promise of self-determination under which WW1 had been fought, and on explicit promises to the Arabs that they would have the lands they helped free from Ottoman rule.
Sykes was your sort of person, an ardent Zionist who saw the indigenous inhabitants not as human beings but as inconvenient objects in the way of Jews. You would love the book, as it detailed all the cynical strategems (and worse) used to get the Palestinians off the land that they had inhabited certainly for centuries, and as we now know, actually for millenia. (Israeli media from time to time reports the "discovery" that the Palestinians are the direct descendants of the ancient population of Palestine and therefore have more ancient Hebrew blood than European Jews, and wonders what should be done about it.)
Sykes wrote assuming that his readers were racists like you and would quietly approve all those strategems to get rid of the sub-human obstacles. But, being a decent human being, I reacted in the opposite way. The book changed my attitude to Zionism from ignorant mild approval to well-informed hatred. There were years when I often had difficulty sleeping because of shame and anger that, as a Briton, I felt for what Sykes taught me that my country had done to facilitate the evil that you celebrate.
I won't go through all your standard hasbara justifying racist colonialist dispossession and wars of ethnic cleansing and worse. I learnt from the Zionist Sykes that it is all nonsense.
The Zionists control Trump What a stupid as sine nine remark The usual ignorant drivel uttered by moronic Jew haters
Thank you as always for an excellent analysis that cuts through the Trump administration’s spin.
Do you agree when Napolitano references Obama and Biden as being left wing, or that their administrations could be defined as left wing? The democrats presented him that way, but I have never heard left wingers make him one of their own. Forget even talking about Biden being a left winger in his past. He didn't even want busing to create racial balance in schools. He's a proclaimed Zionist, and supported the Iraq war for Netanyahu, and on and on. Not to mention his Putin has got to go comment. The idea that we define the democrats as liberals has got to go, because it's based on little more on making comparisons between them and republicans.
You are correct. Compared to the republican party the democratic party is liberal. And compared to Netanyahu, Satan is a bad dude.
Really defending your country and protecting its citizens defines you as Satan Wow that’s brilliant However if a leader a banded his people I guess you would cocider him a great leader Outstanding logic
Abandoned sorry for the typo
Funny1
I eagerly watch Judge Napolitano's interviews to hear excellent and informed commentary, and Prof. Mearsheimer's segments are one of the major treats of the weekly series.
Pres. Trump's presidency is turning out to be increasingly disappointing---first time around, he could be somewhat forgiven for not understanding DC politics and somewhat at the mercy of unreliable advisors etc., but this term shows that "the buck has to stop here" for Pres. Trump, and whether or not his advisors operate with malicious agendas, it is Trump's incurious nature and weak, volatile, narcissist personality (as well as weakness toward his Zionist backers) that continually interfere with his decision-making. (Nevertheless, he is still vastly better than the previous Democrat regimes...).
Just sending my thanks for your regular sharing of insights and wisdom on Judge Nap's show!
Thank you, President Trump, for the moral clarity that bozos like Mearsheimer and Napolitano completely lack. You recognize the difference between good and evil, between those defending themselves and those who attack. You understand the contrast between nations run by thugs who flood our streets with deadly drugs and those fighting to stop the 80,000 American overdose deaths each year. Thank you for standing firmly with Israel against Hamas and Iran, and for getting tough on Venezuela.
Americans should start by looking at themselves instead of attacking others for their drug and other social problems.
Trump's attack on those ships that killed people, not really knowing if they had drugs on board, used it as a signal to Venezuela that this administration is coming for you! I can even remember the days when America went after Chavez, and nothing to do with drugs! I do think in part it's about oil, and their independence in a world where the US has tried to control every country that is south of their border.
Yeah, like the Sackler family who introduced opioids which—once people were addicted and couldn’t get more—lead to fentanyl.
Moral clarity? Go climb back under your tea bag!
Dead on This judge Google him This info reveals that he is a borderline lunatic As for this professor really a sick Jew hater seriously pathological
Delete yourself, you damned fence for meth head porch pirates! (Not just; your brigade of thieves and robbers generally.)
ShitHeadiBuffoon…nice to see you again.
Ask Natansamaelhu to drive a Caterpillar over you.
I'm sort of stuck on WhyTF people don't understand that long wars (won or lost) enrich the MIN's (Military Industrial Networks)....
They're about profits 🤷
Boats
He jerks off while sinking the boats
It’s murder but he sits and gloats
His crimes are not vague
Send him to the Hague
Deprive him of any more votes.
Have you two Gentlemen not heard the SecWar explain clearly that they have the evidence from Assets,contacts about all those go fast boats are loaded with drugs. Trump has said it. Although Not in detail,why would he need to ? Accusing someone of murder should be accompanied by facts, smoking gun facts….What do You have ??? What has nice guy, play soft gotten this country ? In the streets and like places, what works is visiting harsh violence on violence !
Thanks for your great work!
We've shared this link on 'The Stacks'
https://askeptic.substack.com/p/the-stacks
Dr. Mearsheimer,
I have only a small understanding of the depth of the conversation at hand. However, I do feel that the central tenet of the core behavior of parties involved is brilliantly presented in your treatise, the tragedy of great power politics. Political actors always use a moral basis to justify self serving decisions and military actions, as Machiavelli once said, the prince must appear to be good, generous and honorable all the while acting ruthlessly with no conscience for his enemies, and that it is always better to be feared than to be loved. This sad axiom seems to be true up to this very day, over six hundred years after it was written. I pray everyday for a positive outcome, even though I too take the role of an offensive realist in my view of international relations and statecraft.
Thank you,
A. E. L. S.
Sorry to get off topic. There are youtube videos “Mearsheimer Reality-Analysis Channel” that feature an AI version of you, speaking on various topics. Are they legit, and if not, what can be done about them?
My Tomahoax cartoon: https://substack.com/@nemopix/note/c-173107900
by the way about the drug boats ....
They are operated by low level workers who think they have very cool "too sexy for their shirts" "outlaw" jobs .... They think they're cool jobs they make cash and they're brave for their girlfriends.
mostly, they're very young and sadly expendable to the cartels
Murdering them is unnecessary and cruel.
It must be understood that the drug problem has to be dealt with under a Hydra- headed approach involving attacking supply side production and trafficking
it is important to understand, however, the main thing is to address the demand side
It's the moral rot and decay of humanity the impoverishment of the middle classes through corporate greed causing this demand for these sleazy dangerous drugs. ...
That's what needs to be addressed through higher education and healthcare , churches of all Fairhs play a huge role or I'll put it this way ...should play a huge role in the solutions. ... .
The more than normal barren moral landscape of America is very disturbing.
Thank you guys very much for your courageous speaking talent and expertise.
Decapitation might be a good military tactic sometimes, but it is rarely a good political strategy, especially if long-term peace is of concern. However, the current US power-elites do not seem to have much concern about long-term peace or prosperity. If so, then mob justice in Chicago style is certainly well justifiable. But we the people had better recognize this political reality. The power-elites who treat foreign leaders as mud pigeions will treat domestic population the same way.
Have faith, have courage have the balls to face up to the challenge.
Coincido totalmente con el análisis del Prof. Mearsheimer. En América Latina podemos hablar con propiedad de la larga historia de intervenciones abiertas o encubiertas de Estados Unidos. La lista es interminable y no importa qué partido estuviera en el poder, siempre se adjudicaron el poder de actuar en lo que ellos consideran como su patio trasero. Si uno mira la historia de Estados Unidos no llama la atención que un país fundado sobre el genocidio de los nativos americanos y el robo de sus tierras, apoye el genocidio de Israel.