On 30 January 2025, I talked to Judge Napolitano on “Judging Freedom” about the difficulties President Trump faces in trying to create a stable Middle East and shut down the Ukraine War.
The Israeli Lobby was a real eye-opener. I appreciate your work and never miss an episode of judging freedom. It's level-headed thinkers like yourself that we need more than ever in today's world
I haven’t listened to the podcast yet but the answer to the questions you pose is simple. The answer is that we in the US should have followed John Mearsheimer’s advice regarding Isreal and Ukraine from the start.
If Trump would want to make the situation much better in Ukraine he would do the right thing and negotiate a settlement with Putin following John Mearsheimer’s prescription.
If Trump would want to do the right thing with regard to Israel he would follow John Mearsheimer’s and Stephen Walt’s advice and stop the violence against the Palestinians, slowly wean the Israelis off of US support and quit allowing the tail to wag the dog.
Well put as usual by Mearsheimer. Unfortunately, there's many people here on Substack who think they're stable geniuses on understanding this conflict and Trump's possible handling of it.
Trump is a man in a hurry with too many irons in too many fires with great potential for a lot of negative social impacts at home and abroad. He is running on arrogance and ego a very dangerous combo for a demagogue with too few constraints on his power.
Is this SNL? So Rapist in Chief Trump's goal is to stabilize? Ukraine? Why? He's digging profits in drones and AI and war sales. ME? Israel? It's all theater and Adolph Netanyahu is in control.
The evil lesser Trump is all about sadism and tossing grenades into everything. His goal is to scrap it all: labor rights, social security and all of the New Deal deals and civil and environmental rights advances?
So Ukraine? The murdering maiming jailing poisoning starving Jews of occupied Palestine? Trump wants instability.
Narcissist and psychopath and sociopath. Little words for Trump.
Unlike Biden, Trump will not be protected against hearing that nomer, and unlike Blinken/Sullivan, I suspect it will hurt.
And now he has 'made' a literal fortune from selling his crypto scam, he's no longer in the pockets of the financial oligarchy. $100m is no small change to a bankrupt realto looking to a Presidential run, but its chump change to a factual billionaire who cannot run again.
Unfortunately, doubtful it's enough. Not only the Israelis, but the Saudis are likely to support an ethnic cleansing with a bit of a nudge, after all, MbS has already done his own with the Shia of Eastern Arabia. Morality is 'Boy Scout' behaviour to such as those.
One thing I'd take issue with is the notion the US/Western societies EVER had a "higher morality" from which we are descending, in actual fact such behaviour has been ongoing for centuries, idiot Pinker be damned.
The Gazans suffering is not yet over. The state called Israel is already a pariah, and will now consider doing things they were restrained from before. Such as drone swarms simply to mass murder civilians.
How different the situation would be if the USA had not couped Morsi to install Sisi.
The Israeli Lobby was a real eye-opener. I appreciate your work and never miss an episode of judging freedom. It's level-headed thinkers like yourself that we need more than ever in today's world
I haven’t listened to the podcast yet but the answer to the questions you pose is simple. The answer is that we in the US should have followed John Mearsheimer’s advice regarding Isreal and Ukraine from the start.
If Trump would want to make the situation much better in Ukraine he would do the right thing and negotiate a settlement with Putin following John Mearsheimer’s prescription.
If Trump would want to do the right thing with regard to Israel he would follow John Mearsheimer’s and Stephen Walt’s advice and stop the violence against the Palestinians, slowly wean the Israelis off of US support and quit allowing the tail to wag the dog.
Well put as usual by Mearsheimer. Unfortunately, there's many people here on Substack who think they're stable geniuses on understanding this conflict and Trump's possible handling of it.
If trump was serious about peace Rubio would be in Moscow right now and not in Panama
Trump is a man in a hurry with too many irons in too many fires with great potential for a lot of negative social impacts at home and abroad. He is running on arrogance and ego a very dangerous combo for a demagogue with too few constraints on his power.
Is this SNL? So Rapist in Chief Trump's goal is to stabilize? Ukraine? Why? He's digging profits in drones and AI and war sales. ME? Israel? It's all theater and Adolph Netanyahu is in control.
The evil lesser Trump is all about sadism and tossing grenades into everything. His goal is to scrap it all: labor rights, social security and all of the New Deal deals and civil and environmental rights advances?
So Ukraine? The murdering maiming jailing poisoning starving Jews of occupied Palestine? Trump wants instability.
Narcissist and psychopath and sociopath. Little words for Trump.
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulokirk/p/corrupt-and-criminal-the-parade-of?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5i319
Mearsheimer = truth serum. There are some remarkably quotable zingers in this short podcast.
Genocide Don.
Unlike Biden, Trump will not be protected against hearing that nomer, and unlike Blinken/Sullivan, I suspect it will hurt.
And now he has 'made' a literal fortune from selling his crypto scam, he's no longer in the pockets of the financial oligarchy. $100m is no small change to a bankrupt realto looking to a Presidential run, but its chump change to a factual billionaire who cannot run again.
Unfortunately, doubtful it's enough. Not only the Israelis, but the Saudis are likely to support an ethnic cleansing with a bit of a nudge, after all, MbS has already done his own with the Shia of Eastern Arabia. Morality is 'Boy Scout' behaviour to such as those.
One thing I'd take issue with is the notion the US/Western societies EVER had a "higher morality" from which we are descending, in actual fact such behaviour has been ongoing for centuries, idiot Pinker be damned.
The Gazans suffering is not yet over. The state called Israel is already a pariah, and will now consider doing things they were restrained from before. Such as drone swarms simply to mass murder civilians.
How different the situation would be if the USA had not couped Morsi to install Sisi.