I did another interview with Freddie Sayers on 12 December 2023.
Much of it focuses on my substack article on Gaza: “Death and Destruction”
Freddy questions me on whether a realist like me can offer moral judgments on another state’s behavior — as I do regarding Israeli behavior in Gaza. He pushes me on all sorts of other issues involving Ukraine as well as Gaza.
Also see: https://unherd.com/2023/12/john-mearsheimer-there-is-no-two-state-solution/
John's statement at 24:22 will surprise many realists:
"this is a case where you have a greater Israel and Hamas is a group that operates inside of Greater Israel and this is a resistance movement that's what's going on here this is not Interstate relations REALISM DOESN'T HAVE ALOT TO SAY ABOUT RELATIONS BETWEEN HAMAS AND ISRAEL" (my emphasis).
He is consistent in saying that his theory doesn't have much to say about domestic politics ("inside of Greater Israel and this is a resistance movement "), even from the perspective of the Domestic Determinant of International Politics: on pp10-11 'Tragedy' his "theory pays little attention to individuals or domestic political considerations ... tends to treat states like black boxes or billiard balls").
The idea that power politics doesn't have anything to say about powers that fight states ("inside of Greater Israel and this is a resistance movement") or which are trying to capture state power for themselves leaves the field for realism much narrower than most Realist sub-schools.
It also betrays a peculiar view of International Politics which Offensive Realism officially eschews, of the primacy of legalism. The Palestinians are fighting to become a state, they have Observer status in the UNGA, and manifest many of the facets of a state (no less its war-making capacity), and yet John The Realist has little to say about it.
So much for Statism. Many Realists are coming to terms with Economics, and recognising Economic Power where it is in the Real World, at Systemic and at other levels. Yes, economic power is to be found in the State, but also underneath it, opposed to it, and regardless of it.
So don't you think John should re-evaluate his state-ment?!
In what the late Saddam Hussein once dubbed “the great Satan,” roughly two-thirds of the United States enlisted military corps is white . . . The fat, bulbous, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin once confirmed in a 93-2 vote of the U.S. Senate, immediately embarked on a whirlwind media tour of duty, telling the pseudo-secular sycophants in the state-controlled tabloid press and state-controlled television talk show circuit about how the U.S. Army is full of bad racist white men.
Senior Defense Department leaders celebrating yet another Pride Month at the Pentagon sounding the alarm about the rising number of state laws they say target the LGBTQ+ community, warned the trend is hurting the feelings of the armed forces . . . “LGBTQ plus and other diverse communities are under attack, just because they are different. Hate for hate’s sake,” said Gil Cisneros, the Pentagon’s undersecretary for personnel and readiness, who also serves as DoD’s chief diversity and inclusion officer.
And now the U.S. Army is doing ads begging for more young white males?
What happened?
Even with a full-on declaration of war from Congress, and even if Gavin Newsome could be cheated into the Oval Office by ZOG somehow, while Globohomo diversity brigades go door-to-door looking to impress American children into military service, they will be met with armed, well-trained opposition, the invasion at the Southern border is going full tilt, and the drugs are flowing in like never before . . .
With the borders of Europe and the USA wide open, civil warfare within the USA, Britain, and most of Europe is a certainty if foreign wars are initiated. Nobody is going to fight a war for Biden, he is dumber than Bush . . . Nobody is going to fight a war for that kikesucking Zionist ass-whore Nikki Haley, and I mean nobody.
Get ready for it . . . the fat old devil worshipping fags on Capitol Hill, on Wall Street, in Whitehall, and in Brussels are in no shape to fight a war themselves, and most Americans are armed to the teeth with their own guns . . . NATO hates heterosexual white men . . . they said so themselves . . .
https://cwspangle.substack.com/i/138320669/nato-an-anti-white-and-anti-family-institution