On 8 July 2025, I was on CNN-News18 in India talking about the worsening state of US foreign policy in the wake of the Iran war and President Trump’s latest round of tariffs.
The West always tries to personalise issues, resulting in "when a new US president comes in, everything will be fine". The US has deep systemic issues that cannot be resolved with the on-board tools. Also its economy is irrecoverably in decline.
Americans tend to delude themselves by finding arbitrary points in time when things turned sour. Lately the smarter moneys is on somethig with Clinton or Bush the Younger. I would probably say, that at least since 1830 the US has committed extraordinarily acts in each and every decade. And the period before that I have yet to examine.
Einar Tangen: "America is an Empire. We solve our problems by taking things from others."
Here again what’s happening is evidence that we would have been much better off if we had listened to the peace activists in the 1960s, followed by George Kennan and John Mearsheimer but we aren’t smart enough to take good advice. Same goes for what I’ve been trying to promote when it comes to the even bigger picture.
As a result we’re in big trouble and unfortunately with the exponential growth in the capabilities of AI we’re likely to be doomed.
He’s a realist. He modified the realist theory into the offensive realism theory. If you follow what he teaches you would find that he advocates diplomacy over warfare. And the avoidance of war and nastiness is what out top world political leaders should be focused on.
Watch his talk to a group of Australians last year. When they pushed back on the notion of US wars he said something to the effect of “If you’re not on our side you’re the enemy! “Either you are with us or against us”. The audience were shocked. Yes he tells you like it is. Lots of them do. And with the demise of MSM it’s making them a pretty penny. Take Jeffrey Sachs. He’s spilling the beans on everything and raking a fortune. But he only whispers his solution to the right audiences - a one world government. That’ll fix everything.
If Trump doesn't end up screwinig over Bibi, too, it will be because AIPAC is stuffing his pockets with enough money. This Nobel Prize insanity (one criminal nominating another criminal) might be the straw. When Trump doesn't get it, he'll need someone to blame: Bibi?
Keeping an imbecile in the White House and spreading utter cruel violence, keeping a mass murderer, cum mass human butcher, cum mass human slaughterer, cum mass human incinerator by his side - is this called the imbecile foreign policy? On the other hand, the same mass human butcher, while illegally, forcibly occupying Palestine (brought in and dumped from Europe as naked, uncivilised, uncultured, filthy European savages), in those circumstances, this bunch of naked European savages do not have a country of their own (sovereignty lies with the Palestinian people), proposing ignobel Nobel Prize for this imbecile is deplorable and an insult to that august institution, but also to the human race and humanity altogether. This is shamelessness at its best, bringing down human dignity, values, integrity, innocence, and decency, and ultimately reducing humanity to its lowest level in the annals of human history.
Mersheimer, you’re a first-rate quisling, dispenser of lies and half-truths. You embody everything that’s wrong with the professoriate class. I can only thank God that you have no power.
If I understand it that Israel cannot survive in a war of attrition with Iran, but is adamant on regime change, then the only option Israel has is ext to to go nuclear, to have US marines die for Netanyahu's cause.
1. If Trump allows marines, he must be impeached.
2. If Trump allows Israeli a tactical nuclear attack on Iran, his inevitable impeachment will follow swiftly and it will send him to jail for life. (If there's a jail to be sent to btw.)
Note furthermore that genocidal Israeli are turning to Argentina. If things go south they have, like the nazis, a place to run to.
Shalom Aleichem...It's not "support the Jewish state unconditionally,"; Prof. Mearsheimer must be referring to the "Israeli" state (or, to be more clear, the "Netanyahu state").
The West always tries to personalise issues, resulting in "when a new US president comes in, everything will be fine". The US has deep systemic issues that cannot be resolved with the on-board tools. Also its economy is irrecoverably in decline.
Americans tend to delude themselves by finding arbitrary points in time when things turned sour. Lately the smarter moneys is on somethig with Clinton or Bush the Younger. I would probably say, that at least since 1830 the US has committed extraordinarily acts in each and every decade. And the period before that I have yet to examine.
Einar Tangen: "America is an Empire. We solve our problems by taking things from others."
The systemic issue is 'business above all'.
The US has a deep systemic issue: Israel and its henchman.
That's a consequence of these "systemic issues".
What is in essence the systemic issue you mean? You mean the personalisation of politics or?
Should read "extraordinarily *vile* acts"
Does it follow that if the bumbler is left to bumble long enough we might have world peace by default.
After the world has been reduced to pieces, yes. And then he can enjoy his Nobel Piece Price without all the worldly din.
No peace without justice and he refuses to adhere to the rule of law.
Yes Or WW3
We are in WW lll. It is only a question of how long it will last and how much more it will be escalated. This is the battle for the planet's future.
Here again what’s happening is evidence that we would have been much better off if we had listened to the peace activists in the 1960s, followed by George Kennan and John Mearsheimer but we aren’t smart enough to take good advice. Same goes for what I’ve been trying to promote when it comes to the even bigger picture.
As a result we’re in big trouble and unfortunately with the exponential growth in the capabilities of AI we’re likely to be doomed.
Mearsheimer is not a peace activist; far from it. He believes international relations are anarchic. He also supports war with China.
He’s a realist. He modified the realist theory into the offensive realism theory. If you follow what he teaches you would find that he advocates diplomacy over warfare. And the avoidance of war and nastiness is what out top world political leaders should be focused on.
Watch his talk to a group of Australians last year. When they pushed back on the notion of US wars he said something to the effect of “If you’re not on our side you’re the enemy! “Either you are with us or against us”. The audience were shocked. Yes he tells you like it is. Lots of them do. And with the demise of MSM it’s making them a pretty penny. Take Jeffrey Sachs. He’s spilling the beans on everything and raking a fortune. But he only whispers his solution to the right audiences - a one world government. That’ll fix everything.
If Trump doesn't end up screwinig over Bibi, too, it will be because AIPAC is stuffing his pockets with enough money. This Nobel Prize insanity (one criminal nominating another criminal) might be the straw. When Trump doesn't get it, he'll need someone to blame: Bibi?
AIPAC doesn’t have much money. You mean the whole ecosystem that’s a fraction of Qatar or Turkey?
Keeping an imbecile in the White House and spreading utter cruel violence, keeping a mass murderer, cum mass human butcher, cum mass human slaughterer, cum mass human incinerator by his side - is this called the imbecile foreign policy? On the other hand, the same mass human butcher, while illegally, forcibly occupying Palestine (brought in and dumped from Europe as naked, uncivilised, uncultured, filthy European savages), in those circumstances, this bunch of naked European savages do not have a country of their own (sovereignty lies with the Palestinian people), proposing ignobel Nobel Prize for this imbecile is deplorable and an insult to that august institution, but also to the human race and humanity altogether. This is shamelessness at its best, bringing down human dignity, values, integrity, innocence, and decency, and ultimately reducing humanity to its lowest level in the annals of human history.
Your comment is both harsh and cogent.
What a hell-hole we've come to.
Awful take and poorly written. Start over
Mersheimer, you’re a first-rate quisling, dispenser of lies and half-truths. You embody everything that’s wrong with the professoriate class. I can only thank God that you have no power.
For anyone interested, I've written about Iran's nuclear programme, you can read it here: https://sarahalard.substack.com/p/its-not-nuclear-weapons-stupid
If I understand it that Israel cannot survive in a war of attrition with Iran, but is adamant on regime change, then the only option Israel has is ext to to go nuclear, to have US marines die for Netanyahu's cause.
1. If Trump allows marines, he must be impeached.
2. If Trump allows Israeli a tactical nuclear attack on Iran, his inevitable impeachment will follow swiftly and it will send him to jail for life. (If there's a jail to be sent to btw.)
Note furthermore that genocidal Israeli are turning to Argentina. If things go south they have, like the nazis, a place to run to.
I call B.S. tRump didn't need begging.
Shalom Aleichem...It's not "support the Jewish state unconditionally,"; Prof. Mearsheimer must be referring to the "Israeli" state (or, to be more clear, the "Netanyahu state").
How do you square this with the recent Washington Post article?
JM discusses Trump's unpredictible style, but that's nothing much in the face of Business-Firstness, which actually directs the world.
‘....shamelessnesss at its worst...’ ( surely😶)
Lock the bumbler in Gitmo's psych ward!