Beyond the fact that the Israel along with the Israeli lobby has masterfully gained and maintained control over the US government it comes down to a simple case of cause and effect. If you enlist the services of a profound malignant narcissist who has sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies to hold a position of ultimate power you end up with a disaster.
Put someone with extreme narcissism and obvious sociopathic or psychopathic tendencies in a position of unchecked power, and what do you think is going to happen? This isn’t some shocking twist—it’s a predictable train wreck. You hand ultimate authority to a person wired like that, and disaster isn’t a possibility, it’s the inevitable outcome.
This is why my “course” is so important if we are to try to right the ship and get it sailing in a better direction…
Are you putting this all on Trump? Israel's agenda for the Middle East has been implemented over decades and many in our government have assisted them, greatly influenced by an Israeli lobby that exerts control over our elected officials. Before Trump came into office we have implemented wars with one middle eastern country after another that was on Israel's hit list. Culpability lies with many, since many of our elected officials have pushed this agenda for a long time making it inevitable for this to happen. Both pasties are equally responsible. just in case you want to single out just one.
Most people see the clear and present danger, but not the avoided dangers (in the past) or the potential dangers (in the future). Therefore, they are all proud to tell us that "Trump is bad. See? I told you." Had they selected Kamala Harris, situation will just be the same. and they will tell us something similar. These pundits are always right in the sense that they have a wrong interpretation about how we get to this point, when all they have is the clear and present danger. This war is dominated by Israel and Netanyahu with widespread support from the Israeli general public, especially people living in the illegal (against UN resolution and US-Israel Camp David agreement) Jewish settlements. Of course, we have to add the AIPAC, US deep-state, and perhaps even Chinese intelligence apparatus. While China suffers from choked oil supply just like other people, China can help Iran to break the swords and shields of the American Empire. Knocking out one or more US Navy supply ships or US Army/Air Force armories would push back the US intervention in the Taiwan Strait for a couple of years.
AN INTERESTING,... post apocalypse analysis - you present.
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~ Can you provide a LINK to where you saw this political infiltration (lobby) of the U$A & this, future disaster, on your 'event horizon' since the days of JFK - & his concern about DIMONA ??? -- ( Note: He - JFK - certainly saw how 'meddling' with that 'Wasps Nest' turned out. -- So, I'd like to know where you have covered the successive presidents being SWAYED into Zionist-political support. )
Look into which Congress critters get funding and have AIPAC minders in their offices. Check who votes to give genocidal Israel everything it demands, and has done so for at least 100 years.
Then you're never going to fully understand the situation.
Epstein was (is?) a hired thug, a mafioso-style blackmailer and money launderer for the Rothschild Class. He and Ghislane merely stepped into the shoes of her father, Robert Maxwell.
The Rothschilds first major warmongering was when they loaned huge to both the Brits and French for the Napoleonic Wars. That debt-lever gave them 'influence' over the central Banks of Britain and France. Just like today the Rothschild-controlled FED uses the $40trillion US Debt to 'influence' US policy in conjunction with their AIPAC 'lobby'.
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.” Lord Acton
Note the term INFLUENCE... in other words, using sycophants and useful idiots to do the dirty work.. Epstein, Nutty-yahoo, Clintons, Carney, Macron, etc.
Who exactly do you think Acton was talking about? He wrote this when the Rothschilds were inveigling themselves and their Zionist minions into British Parliament and administration. Benjamin Disraeli ring a bell?
That's rayceest. Or is that bigoted? No matter. It simply opens you up to all manner of attack vectors which the Zionist trolls will employ to discredit your criticism.
I save my approbation for actual individuals and definable groups, not a generalized, nebulous designation.
Simply blaming "Jews" is like trying to nail jello to the wall. A Jew living next door in the US/EU is likely not a geopolitical threat to humanity. A Zionist Rothschild with messianic tendencies IS PROBABLY a geopolitical threat to humanity.
All murders eat pickles, all Jews eat pickles. Therefore all Jews are murderers?
The asymmetry here is what stands out: Israel creates the fact on the ground, the US absorbs the strategic consequences.
That's not a partnership — that's a structural dependence where the junior partner controls the escalation timeline.
If Qatar LNG is already struck, the economic pressure shifts from theoretical to actual. And markets don't care about who started it — they care about who can stop it. Right now, nobody with credibility can.
MMmmmm,... the only error in your 'assessment' appears to be - THINKING - that the 'junior partner' is I$RAEL !!! - As 'bibi' states,... this (current situation) is what he has been (planning for and) DREAMING of for the past 40years !!!
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~TRUMP is an out & out Zionist & his daughter Ivanka, even 'converted' from Christian to Secular-Judaism to marry Zionnist Kushner in 2009 !!!
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~TRUMP,... is the only (Zionist) PUPPET minion - bibi - (along wiith other I$RAELI PM's preceding him,) - who has been able to completely 'lead by the nose' whole-heatedly into the Middle-East 'bull-fight' !!!
So all the wars in the Middle East that preceded our attack on Iran didn't lay the groundwork for what is now occurring? When you capitulate time and time again the end game is often the most destructive. You do recognize our middle eastern wars in this century have been fought for Israel? You do know that the Israeli lobby has exerted over time more and more control over our political agenda. See the whole picture if you want to see the truth. To help you out just think of our complicity of both parties of assisting Israel in it's genocidal attack in Gaza, and going along with it's plans to take over the West Bank, and being mute as to the many atrocities implement among its people, like land stolen, people incarcerated without charges, rotting in their jails, and now owning more then 60 percent of their land, etc. US silence has been present for many decades on that front. This isn't a one man show, nor should the emphasis be placed on one person.
Gracias por el análisis, siempre lúcido, lógico y claro. El panorama mundial es terrible considerando que estamos en manos de dos sociópatas. Parece que el gran ganador es Rusia y a la larga China. Probablemente la caída del imperio americano se acentúe y un animal herido se vuelve más peligroso e impredecible...
A realist says that. If you can't see that the Apartheid Genocidal Terrorist Occupation State called 'Israel' and its Rothschild Class backers are currently the 'greatest threat' to humanity, you are the one with the distorted mind.
The rest of the world is goyim and Amalek according to Zionist theology. Animals to serve the Zionists or be killed (including women and children) if they are in the Holy Land™ as loosely defined in the Torah. So anywhere Jews declare 'holy' and want to occupy.
A few observations for followers of John Mearsheimer. When John Mearsheimer says Israel is “the greatest threat to Western values,” that’s not realism—it’s distortion.
Realism is supposed to be structural. But notice the pattern:
– Russia → security dilemma
– China → balance of power
– Israel → “the lobby”
So great powers get structural explanations. Israel gets blamed.
That’s not theory. That’s selective reasoning.
And the “Israel Lobby” claim collapses under its own weight:
If it’s powerful enough to drag the U.S. into war with Iran now, why didn’t it succeed in 2003, 2009, 2012, or 2018?
Either it’s not that powerful—or the argument isn’t consistent.
Then there’s the missing history:
Israel accepted partition. Arab states rejected it.
Jordan and Egypt held the West Bank and Gaza—no Palestinian state.
Israel withdrew from Gaza—violence escalated.
None of this fits the narrative, so it disappears.
At some point, this stops being realism and starts looking like a theory in search of evidence.
You can criticize Israel. But if Israel is always the answer—regardless of the question—that’s not analysis. That’s fixation.
The Rothschilds have deliberately placed themselves and their puppets at key nodes in banking, finance, corporates, politics and even military brass wherever they are allowed to do so. Beginning wth the 5 Arrows being dispatched to the banking/finance centres of Europe in the late 1700s.
Russia, China and Iran have barred the Rothschilds from gaining excessive control in their systems. Other countries that kept the Rothschilds out? Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Iraq, Cuba... see a pattern? Now Burkina Faso has recently booted them and the US/EU poodles out and its leader Traore is under constant threat of assassination attempts.
They Rothschilds essentially ran the British and Dutch East India Companies, financed both the Brits and French in the Napoleonic Wars. Wrote Sykes-Picot and the Balfour Declaration.
That Israel is the problem it is can be largely laid at their feet as they were instrumental in funding and transferring settler Zionist Jews to Palestine. In 1850, Jews were 4% of Palestine, by 1935 25%. The Rothschilds admit this openly.
Playing the 'Jewish victimhood card' is long past its best-before date. Killing over 50,000 Palestinians since Oct 7 has taken the shine off that bullshit.
Would professor John Mearsheimer "s or his followers consider raising this as the “West's” acceptance of genocide has consequences that might include Israeli nuking Iran as *preemptive" if present war seen as lost.
Sorry, the control of the US to unquestioningly support 'Israel' goes much further back than 1973.
While it was the Brits who nominally foisted the Balfour Declaration (actually written by the Rothschilds and their Zionist confreres) on the world, the US was 100% onboard. Fast forward to 1948, and it was the US primarily behind the near-copy of Balfour, the UN Resolution 181 that created the legal fiction of the Apartheid Genocidal Occupation State called 'Israel'.
If one REALLY wants to get to the root cause, find the Rothschilds funding and media/politically backing the 1800s Zionist Movement in Europe and the US.
I wasn’t referring to the control of the US in general but specifically in relation to its threat to invoke the Samson option in 1973 and which still haunts the US leadership in moments of crisis involving Israel.
The difference now is that Iran has the ability to totally demolish Israel, plus any remaining US bases and warships, nuclear Samson threat or not. It appears Iran still hasn't begun using the 'newest' stuff, and still has destroyed a lot of US weapon stockpiles in the last days or so. 72 hours-worth left of 'interceptors' is the rumour. Hit an F35 as well, which is likely the Israeli vector of choice after subs.
The question remains if Russia and China will get involved if psychopath Nutty-yahoo decides to play the nuke card. It is a good bet Russian and Chinese ISR knows exactly where Israel's nukes are, even on subs. Israel might get one or two launched, but the rest probably will be destroyed in minutes. Perhaps even an Israeli 'threat' similar to the pre-staging in 1973 would trigger a massive Iranian barrage on any Israeli nuke sites.
Iran knows this is for all the marbles, and if Russia and China want to stop the US 'pivot' to attack them directly, this is the time to put the US in its place permanently and put down the rabid Israeli dog for good.
Dr Mearsheimer sounds moderate and balanced, which may disguise the fact that he is still extremely biased. He says that the USA is the world's most powerful nation - that's untrue. China has been for some years now. Even in a military sense. The Chinese navy, for instance, is larger and more modern than the US navy.
Dr Mearsheimer seems to be a captive of Israeli propaganda, which is the fatal problem of the US government itself.
Even Saint Chomsky couldn't face the fact the US wasn't as 'powerful' as claimed.
Johnson, Ritter, Macgregor all refer the US as "we" when generally describing what is going on. Probably to do with maintaining their image as 'true patriots' with the US public. Keeps the Hasbara 'you're a traitor' birds from chirping at them. That's always next when 'antisemitic' doesn't work.
Please, China vs. USA - aircraft carriers 3:11. nuclear submarines 13:70, overseas military bases 2:800, military allies 1:55.
America is the hegemon, China - not even an Asian one. The submarines, supported by local American allies, could do it alone. The AGM-158Cs, long-range (1000 kilometers) anti-ship stealth missiles will be willing to help.
Assuming the subs' toilets don't get plugged and the 'laundry' doesn't catch on fire...
It is delusional think Russia would stand by if China was nuked, or significantly directly attacked with conventional munitions. Russia's nukes and advanced missiles are on a series of localized dead-man switches, so destroying all the central command nodes will not stop the US public witnessing war directly. China's probably are too. Look how frantic the US got after relatively miniscule casualties at Pearl Harbour and 9/11. 6 dead tanker airmen is a BIG DEAL, can't acknowledge the hundreds also dead. To quote Trumpty Dumbdy, "Who's next!" Losing 70,000 in Vietnam was beyond their capacity to bear, vs. Iran, Russia and China has lost MILLIONS in wars...
The US seems to want nuclear war on its mainland. I'd bet one Oreshnik or two in a couple strategic places would bring the US to its knees in an hour. Just like Iran just did to key US bases and weapons storage.
When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
To be fair, depends on what metric one judges "most powerful". Militarily, I'd say yes. Financially, some would argue yes - deep capital markets, etc. if we think about other metrics like average IQ in a population, number of stem grads, leadership in key technologies, then the outcome would be different.
Those "deep capital markets" are not fully, or even mostly, controlled by the US and its Oligarchs (the Adelson cabal). That power belongs mainly to the Rothschild Class, indicated by Rothschild Men Carney, Macron, Starmer and Mertz wearing a path in Xi's carpet and the knees of their pants begging China to rescue their economies. Even Stoltendolt has changed his 'daddy Trump" tune.
Then consider that the China/Russia/BRICS+ group dwarfs the US/EU/NATO economic bloc.
I’m glad you are open-minded enough to see that, Fred. Militarily, I think you need to reassess. It’s been a long time since the USA Army was practically able to invade any serious enemy without taking completely unacceptable losses. Iraq and Afghanistan were very deceptive; even Iran is uninvadeable, and countries like China and Russia are strictly off limits. The US Navy still sails around the world, intimidating smaller and weaker countries; but as we are seeing today, it is powerless against Iran. The USAF, too, is impotent; it dare not overfly Iran and can only let fly with stand-off missiles. None of its aircraft can safely approach Russian, Chinese, or even Iranian missile defences.
Military power can be evaluated only in the context of what it is to be used for. Russia and China, for instance, make it very clear that their armed forces are strictly for defence. And on their own ground the USA cannot defeat them. If it tried, it would suffer far more than it is now doing against Iran.
The financial question is also relative, and shifting quite rapidly. The USA had a dominant position as a result of Bretton Woods, but precisely by exploiting that “exorbitant privilege” it has drawn too much attention to it. As a result, others are increasingly peeling away and insulating themselves from New York and London.
I think militarily I won't disagree with you - since world war II at least, I don't think the US has gone up against a truly near-peer adversary head to head. I think Dr. Mearsheimer would also agree that in terms of conventional warfare, sure, the US is powerful - barring my comments about near-peer or peer adversaries. But I think in the larger scheme of things, the US has a particular weakness we saw come to light in Vietnam and that's public opinion. The US, I think, can bring to bear an immense amount of firepower, but its government is still shackled to public opinion. Maybe not so much with Trump, or we just haven't seen the consequences of his actions play out yet. November!!
China doesn't want to "project power globally", because it is a civilised country that prefers to have friendly and mutually advantageous relations with everyone else. Neither does Russia, or India, , or Brazil, or South Africa, or Indonesia... or, of course, Iran.
Your comment reveals that you understand "the world's most powerful nation" as meaning the nation that is most able to attack, harm, and destroy others everywhere. That is a direct route to becoming the world's pariah, shunned, and impoverished. It's already happening, except for a tiny elite who have no allegiance to the USA.
As for "maritime choke points", I know that a lot is being written and said on that topic. But it's illusory. For one thing, China is on the edge of the world's largest continent and has terrestrial trade routes to and from most of the human species. Also, the Chinese navy is bigger and more modern than the US navy. It consists mainly of small, fast, agile ships armed with powerful missiles. If the US government attempts to exploit those "choke points" it will have to resort to force, and it will suffer a defeat compared to which the current fiasco in the Gulf will look like a huge success.
Beyond the fact that the Israel along with the Israeli lobby has masterfully gained and maintained control over the US government it comes down to a simple case of cause and effect. If you enlist the services of a profound malignant narcissist who has sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies to hold a position of ultimate power you end up with a disaster.
Put someone with extreme narcissism and obvious sociopathic or psychopathic tendencies in a position of unchecked power, and what do you think is going to happen? This isn’t some shocking twist—it’s a predictable train wreck. You hand ultimate authority to a person wired like that, and disaster isn’t a possibility, it’s the inevitable outcome.
This is why my “course” is so important if we are to try to right the ship and get it sailing in a better direction…
Exactly Sir!!
Are you putting this all on Trump? Israel's agenda for the Middle East has been implemented over decades and many in our government have assisted them, greatly influenced by an Israeli lobby that exerts control over our elected officials. Before Trump came into office we have implemented wars with one middle eastern country after another that was on Israel's hit list. Culpability lies with many, since many of our elected officials have pushed this agenda for a long time making it inevitable for this to happen. Both pasties are equally responsible. just in case you want to single out just one.
Most people see the clear and present danger, but not the avoided dangers (in the past) or the potential dangers (in the future). Therefore, they are all proud to tell us that "Trump is bad. See? I told you." Had they selected Kamala Harris, situation will just be the same. and they will tell us something similar. These pundits are always right in the sense that they have a wrong interpretation about how we get to this point, when all they have is the clear and present danger. This war is dominated by Israel and Netanyahu with widespread support from the Israeli general public, especially people living in the illegal (against UN resolution and US-Israel Camp David agreement) Jewish settlements. Of course, we have to add the AIPAC, US deep-state, and perhaps even Chinese intelligence apparatus. While China suffers from choked oil supply just like other people, China can help Iran to break the swords and shields of the American Empire. Knocking out one or more US Navy supply ships or US Army/Air Force armories would push back the US intervention in the Taiwan Strait for a couple of years.
AN INTERESTING,... post apocalypse analysis - you present.
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~ Can you provide a LINK to where you saw this political infiltration (lobby) of the U$A & this, future disaster, on your 'event horizon' since the days of JFK - & his concern about DIMONA ??? -- ( Note: He - JFK - certainly saw how 'meddling' with that 'Wasps Nest' turned out. -- So, I'd like to know where you have covered the successive presidents being SWAYED into Zionist-political support. )
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Thank you in advance
Guy Fhawkes
Go to the AIPAC website, it's all there.
Look into which Congress critters get funding and have AIPAC minders in their offices. Check who votes to give genocidal Israel everything it demands, and has done so for at least 100 years.
YES - I know those sites & links.... Thanks
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~ What I was prompting was the LACK of info & LINKS with date-stamps from the ORIGINAL boaster ( Ooops poster )
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https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/up-the-escalation-ladder/comment/229987114
Epstein class war crimes 😈🧃🕎🇮🇱😈
Actually Rothschild Class, of which the Epstein Class is a sub-set.
Nah I like Epstein gang (🧃🇮🇱🕎😈) war crimes better
Then you're never going to fully understand the situation.
Epstein was (is?) a hired thug, a mafioso-style blackmailer and money launderer for the Rothschild Class. He and Ghislane merely stepped into the shoes of her father, Robert Maxwell.
The Rothschilds first major warmongering was when they loaned huge to both the Brits and French for the Napoleonic Wars. That debt-lever gave them 'influence' over the central Banks of Britain and France. Just like today the Rothschild-controlled FED uses the $40trillion US Debt to 'influence' US policy in conjunction with their AIPAC 'lobby'.
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.” Lord Acton
Note the term INFLUENCE... in other words, using sycophants and useful idiots to do the dirty work.. Epstein, Nutty-yahoo, Clintons, Carney, Macron, etc.
Who exactly do you think Acton was talking about? He wrote this when the Rothschilds were inveigling themselves and their Zionist minions into British Parliament and administration. Benjamin Disraeli ring a bell?
Epstein class war criminals 😈🧃🇮🇱🕎😈😈
It all comes from the nasty 🤮 Jews
That's rayceest. Or is that bigoted? No matter. It simply opens you up to all manner of attack vectors which the Zionist trolls will employ to discredit your criticism.
I save my approbation for actual individuals and definable groups, not a generalized, nebulous designation.
Simply blaming "Jews" is like trying to nail jello to the wall. A Jew living next door in the US/EU is likely not a geopolitical threat to humanity. A Zionist Rothschild with messianic tendencies IS PROBABLY a geopolitical threat to humanity.
All murders eat pickles, all Jews eat pickles. Therefore all Jews are murderers?
Nah it’s all the Jews (aka Epstein class) 😈🇮🇱🧃🕎😈
Bigot? Haha what a joke , are you a nasty Jew ?
Nobody cares what you animals think 😂😂😂
We have an obviously blackmailed, compromised, deranged President. Borders, election integrity are good. Funding genocides is a MASSIVE war crime!
The asymmetry here is what stands out: Israel creates the fact on the ground, the US absorbs the strategic consequences.
That's not a partnership — that's a structural dependence where the junior partner controls the escalation timeline.
If Qatar LNG is already struck, the economic pressure shifts from theoretical to actual. And markets don't care about who started it — they care about who can stop it. Right now, nobody with credibility can.
— @lintara
MMmmmm,... the only error in your 'assessment' appears to be - THINKING - that the 'junior partner' is I$RAEL !!! - As 'bibi' states,... this (current situation) is what he has been (planning for and) DREAMING of for the past 40years !!!
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~TRUMP is an out & out Zionist & his daughter Ivanka, even 'converted' from Christian to Secular-Judaism to marry Zionnist Kushner in 2009 !!!
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~TRUMP,... is the only (Zionist) PUPPET minion - bibi - (along wiith other I$RAELI PM's preceding him,) - who has been able to completely 'lead by the nose' whole-heatedly into the Middle-East 'bull-fight' !!!
So all the wars in the Middle East that preceded our attack on Iran didn't lay the groundwork for what is now occurring? When you capitulate time and time again the end game is often the most destructive. You do recognize our middle eastern wars in this century have been fought for Israel? You do know that the Israeli lobby has exerted over time more and more control over our political agenda. See the whole picture if you want to see the truth. To help you out just think of our complicity of both parties of assisting Israel in it's genocidal attack in Gaza, and going along with it's plans to take over the West Bank, and being mute as to the many atrocities implement among its people, like land stolen, people incarcerated without charges, rotting in their jails, and now owning more then 60 percent of their land, etc. US silence has been present for many decades on that front. This isn't a one man show, nor should the emphasis be placed on one person.
Israel authorized its military to kill any senior Iranian official. This sounds quite like the commissar order, issued by the Germans 1941.
Gracias por el análisis, siempre lúcido, lógico y claro. El panorama mundial es terrible considerando que estamos en manos de dos sociópatas. Parece que el gran ganador es Rusia y a la larga China. Probablemente la caída del imperio americano se acentúe y un animal herido se vuelve más peligroso e impredecible...
I hope Tulsi stays. She needs all the information she is getting to be effective after Trump is gone.
TULSI CAVED !!!,.. you're delusional !!!
When trump is gone another clown will run through the circus
Really!!
“George Orwell once wrote: ‘Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.’
Perhaps by rediscovering the past, we’ll regain control of the present, and save the future.”
— Alison Weir, Against Our Better Judgment
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/57th-street-books-the-great-conversation
I hope you’re right, but i prefer they deal the decisive blows much earlier.
What kind of a distorted mind says this?
Daniel Davis- “Is Iran really the sworn enemy of western values?”
John Mearsheimer - “No. The greatest threat to western values at this point in time is Israel.”
you must have spent a long time deluding yourself if you think describing reality is a distortion. the fantasist is all you with this one.
A realist says that. If you can't see that the Apartheid Genocidal Terrorist Occupation State called 'Israel' and its Rothschild Class backers are currently the 'greatest threat' to humanity, you are the one with the distorted mind.
The rest of the world is goyim and Amalek according to Zionist theology. Animals to serve the Zionists or be killed (including women and children) if they are in the Holy Land™ as loosely defined in the Torah. So anywhere Jews declare 'holy' and want to occupy.
A few observations for followers of John Mearsheimer. When John Mearsheimer says Israel is “the greatest threat to Western values,” that’s not realism—it’s distortion.
Realism is supposed to be structural. But notice the pattern:
– Russia → security dilemma
– China → balance of power
– Israel → “the lobby”
So great powers get structural explanations. Israel gets blamed.
That’s not theory. That’s selective reasoning.
And the “Israel Lobby” claim collapses under its own weight:
If it’s powerful enough to drag the U.S. into war with Iran now, why didn’t it succeed in 2003, 2009, 2012, or 2018?
Either it’s not that powerful—or the argument isn’t consistent.
Then there’s the missing history:
Israel accepted partition. Arab states rejected it.
Jordan and Egypt held the West Bank and Gaza—no Palestinian state.
Israel withdrew from Gaza—violence escalated.
None of this fits the narrative, so it disappears.
At some point, this stops being realism and starts looking like a theory in search of evidence.
You can criticize Israel. But if Israel is always the answer—regardless of the question—that’s not analysis. That’s fixation.
Delusional.
The Rothschilds have deliberately placed themselves and their puppets at key nodes in banking, finance, corporates, politics and even military brass wherever they are allowed to do so. Beginning wth the 5 Arrows being dispatched to the banking/finance centres of Europe in the late 1700s.
Russia, China and Iran have barred the Rothschilds from gaining excessive control in their systems. Other countries that kept the Rothschilds out? Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Iraq, Cuba... see a pattern? Now Burkina Faso has recently booted them and the US/EU poodles out and its leader Traore is under constant threat of assassination attempts.
They Rothschilds essentially ran the British and Dutch East India Companies, financed both the Brits and French in the Napoleonic Wars. Wrote Sykes-Picot and the Balfour Declaration.
That Israel is the problem it is can be largely laid at their feet as they were instrumental in funding and transferring settler Zionist Jews to Palestine. In 1850, Jews were 4% of Palestine, by 1935 25%. The Rothschilds admit this openly.
Playing the 'Jewish victimhood card' is long past its best-before date. Killing over 50,000 Palestinians since Oct 7 has taken the shine off that bullshit.
Would professor John Mearsheimer "s or his followers consider raising this as the “West's” acceptance of genocide has consequences that might include Israeli nuking Iran as *preemptive" if present war seen as lost.
Very short AI. Assisted article with links
https://edsurridge.substack.com/p/the-unthinkable-nuclear-victory-for?r=u3317&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
I continue to learn so much about narrative of this war and the players driving the world into madness. Thx for sharing and educating the public
Thanks John for your Freudian slip: “… Israel wanted to go to war with the United States”.
Israel doesn’t need to go to war with the US as it already controls it. It has done so since the war of Yom Kippur in 1973.
Sorry, the control of the US to unquestioningly support 'Israel' goes much further back than 1973.
While it was the Brits who nominally foisted the Balfour Declaration (actually written by the Rothschilds and their Zionist confreres) on the world, the US was 100% onboard. Fast forward to 1948, and it was the US primarily behind the near-copy of Balfour, the UN Resolution 181 that created the legal fiction of the Apartheid Genocidal Occupation State called 'Israel'.
If one REALLY wants to get to the root cause, find the Rothschilds funding and media/politically backing the 1800s Zionist Movement in Europe and the US.
I wasn’t referring to the control of the US in general but specifically in relation to its threat to invoke the Samson option in 1973 and which still haunts the US leadership in moments of crisis involving Israel.
The rest that you mention was just the buildup.
The difference now is that Iran has the ability to totally demolish Israel, plus any remaining US bases and warships, nuclear Samson threat or not. It appears Iran still hasn't begun using the 'newest' stuff, and still has destroyed a lot of US weapon stockpiles in the last days or so. 72 hours-worth left of 'interceptors' is the rumour. Hit an F35 as well, which is likely the Israeli vector of choice after subs.
The question remains if Russia and China will get involved if psychopath Nutty-yahoo decides to play the nuke card. It is a good bet Russian and Chinese ISR knows exactly where Israel's nukes are, even on subs. Israel might get one or two launched, but the rest probably will be destroyed in minutes. Perhaps even an Israeli 'threat' similar to the pre-staging in 1973 would trigger a massive Iranian barrage on any Israeli nuke sites.
Iran knows this is for all the marbles, and if Russia and China want to stop the US 'pivot' to attack them directly, this is the time to put the US in its place permanently and put down the rabid Israeli dog for good.
Dr Mearsheimer sounds moderate and balanced, which may disguise the fact that he is still extremely biased. He says that the USA is the world's most powerful nation - that's untrue. China has been for some years now. Even in a military sense. The Chinese navy, for instance, is larger and more modern than the US navy.
Dr Mearsheimer seems to be a captive of Israeli propaganda, which is the fatal problem of the US government itself.
Even Saint Chomsky couldn't face the fact the US wasn't as 'powerful' as claimed.
Johnson, Ritter, Macgregor all refer the US as "we" when generally describing what is going on. Probably to do with maintaining their image as 'true patriots' with the US public. Keeps the Hasbara 'you're a traitor' birds from chirping at them. That's always next when 'antisemitic' doesn't work.
Please, China vs. USA - aircraft carriers 3:11. nuclear submarines 13:70, overseas military bases 2:800, military allies 1:55.
America is the hegemon, China - not even an Asian one. The submarines, supported by local American allies, could do it alone. The AGM-158Cs, long-range (1000 kilometers) anti-ship stealth missiles will be willing to help.
Assuming the subs' toilets don't get plugged and the 'laundry' doesn't catch on fire...
It is delusional think Russia would stand by if China was nuked, or significantly directly attacked with conventional munitions. Russia's nukes and advanced missiles are on a series of localized dead-man switches, so destroying all the central command nodes will not stop the US public witnessing war directly. China's probably are too. Look how frantic the US got after relatively miniscule casualties at Pearl Harbour and 9/11. 6 dead tanker airmen is a BIG DEAL, can't acknowledge the hundreds also dead. To quote Trumpty Dumbdy, "Who's next!" Losing 70,000 in Vietnam was beyond their capacity to bear, vs. Iran, Russia and China has lost MILLIONS in wars...
The US seems to want nuclear war on its mainland. I'd bet one Oreshnik or two in a couple strategic places would bring the US to its knees in an hour. Just like Iran just did to key US bases and weapons storage.
When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
Stupid is as stupid does.
To be fair, depends on what metric one judges "most powerful". Militarily, I'd say yes. Financially, some would argue yes - deep capital markets, etc. if we think about other metrics like average IQ in a population, number of stem grads, leadership in key technologies, then the outcome would be different.
Those "deep capital markets" are not fully, or even mostly, controlled by the US and its Oligarchs (the Adelson cabal). That power belongs mainly to the Rothschild Class, indicated by Rothschild Men Carney, Macron, Starmer and Mertz wearing a path in Xi's carpet and the knees of their pants begging China to rescue their economies. Even Stoltendolt has changed his 'daddy Trump" tune.
Then consider that the China/Russia/BRICS+ group dwarfs the US/EU/NATO economic bloc.
I’m glad you are open-minded enough to see that, Fred. Militarily, I think you need to reassess. It’s been a long time since the USA Army was practically able to invade any serious enemy without taking completely unacceptable losses. Iraq and Afghanistan were very deceptive; even Iran is uninvadeable, and countries like China and Russia are strictly off limits. The US Navy still sails around the world, intimidating smaller and weaker countries; but as we are seeing today, it is powerless against Iran. The USAF, too, is impotent; it dare not overfly Iran and can only let fly with stand-off missiles. None of its aircraft can safely approach Russian, Chinese, or even Iranian missile defences.
Military power can be evaluated only in the context of what it is to be used for. Russia and China, for instance, make it very clear that their armed forces are strictly for defence. And on their own ground the USA cannot defeat them. If it tried, it would suffer far more than it is now doing against Iran.
The financial question is also relative, and shifting quite rapidly. The USA had a dominant position as a result of Bretton Woods, but precisely by exploiting that “exorbitant privilege” it has drawn too much attention to it. As a result, others are increasingly peeling away and insulating themselves from New York and London.
I think militarily I won't disagree with you - since world war II at least, I don't think the US has gone up against a truly near-peer adversary head to head. I think Dr. Mearsheimer would also agree that in terms of conventional warfare, sure, the US is powerful - barring my comments about near-peer or peer adversaries. But I think in the larger scheme of things, the US has a particular weakness we saw come to light in Vietnam and that's public opinion. The US, I think, can bring to bear an immense amount of firepower, but its government is still shackled to public opinion. Maybe not so much with Trump, or we just haven't seen the consequences of his actions play out yet. November!!
China can't project power globally. Google "China’s maritime choke points." So, no.
China doesn't want to "project power globally", because it is a civilised country that prefers to have friendly and mutually advantageous relations with everyone else. Neither does Russia, or India, , or Brazil, or South Africa, or Indonesia... or, of course, Iran.
Your comment reveals that you understand "the world's most powerful nation" as meaning the nation that is most able to attack, harm, and destroy others everywhere. That is a direct route to becoming the world's pariah, shunned, and impoverished. It's already happening, except for a tiny elite who have no allegiance to the USA.
As for "maritime choke points", I know that a lot is being written and said on that topic. But it's illusory. For one thing, China is on the edge of the world's largest continent and has terrestrial trade routes to and from most of the human species. Also, the Chinese navy is bigger and more modern than the US navy. It consists mainly of small, fast, agile ships armed with powerful missiles. If the US government attempts to exploit those "choke points" it will have to resort to force, and it will suffer a defeat compared to which the current fiasco in the Gulf will look like a huge success.
A lot of blinking back tears from the poor defenceless female.