Sitemap - 2026 - John’s Substack
Israel Is a Strategic Liability
Wolf Warrior Diplomacy with Allies
Seeing Eye to Eye with Piers on Iran
The Disaster that Keeps on Giving
Trump in Iran Is Looking More & More Like LBJ in Vietnam
Another Memorandum of Understanding?
Will President Trump Strike Iranian Bridges And Power Stations This Coming Week, As He Promised?
Flailing about in Iran & Ukraine
Discussing the Iran War in India
The Balance of Coercive Leverage
Iran--Not Sam--Holds the Cards
Russia Has Red Lines & Nuclear Weapons
Ukraine Is Doomed to Lose The War
Will Russia Strike Targets in Europe?
Repairing US Relations with India
Mearsheimer and Walt versus Nuland and Pompeo
President Trump Thinks the US Can Play Traffic Cop in the Persian Gulf
The Fallout from the Iran Debacle
The Fraught State of Global Politics
Escalation Will Not Work for Trump
JJM Address at The Arab Center
With Steve Walt on the Lobby & Iran
The Iran War: Manna from Heaven for China & Russia
Israel, Its Lobby, and the Iran War
"The Israel Lobby" after 20 Years
The Unfolding Disaster in the Gulf
You Listen to Israel, You Lose
What's The Least Bad Alternative?
Is a Peace Deal in Ukraine Possible?
Kabuki Theater with Iran & Russia
The New World Order--or Disorder?
Talking Great Power Politics in Moscow
Weaponizing Antisemitism in Australia to Protect Israel
Trying to Comprehend Trump's FP
"It's Not Great Power Politics. It's Old-Style Imperialism"
Trying to Wreck Iran and Failing
Asking for Big Trouble in Venezuela
The Venezuela Crisis and Europe
Quincy Panel on Irresponsible Statecraft