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  1. Jon Mearsheimer saying firebombing civillians never brings regime change. Murdering civilians never makes a country surrender -- except possibly Japan 1945, but possibly not.

    #ChrisHedges | Why America is Losing the War With Iran (w/ John Mearsheimer) | The Chris Hedges Report

    chrishedges.substack.com/p/why

    #JohnMearsheimer #Iran #US

  2. Jon Mearsheimer saying firebombing civillians never brings regime change. Murdering civilians never makes a country surrender -- except possibly Japan 1945, but possibly not.

    #ChrisHedges | Why America is Losing the War With Iran (w/ John Mearsheimer) | The Chris Hedges Report

    chrishedges.substack.com/p/why

    #JohnMearsheimer #Iran #US

  3. Ich finde ja immer faszinierend, wenn Leute #JohnMearsheimer immer noch ernst nehmen.

  4. Jeffrey Sachs Briefs UN on US Aggression in Venezuela
    consortiumnews.com/2026/01/05/
    The author advises the Security Council to fulfill its responsibilities by immediately affirming a series of actions in response to the U.S. attacks on Venezuela. The following remarks, as prepared for presentation, were made by Jeffrey D. Sachs, president of…
    #Politics #Colombia #Commentary #Denmark #InternationalLaw #Iran #Iraq #Mexico #Nigeria #ObamaAdministration #Syria #TrumpAdministration #U.n.SecurityCouncil #U.s. #Uncategorized #UnitedNations #Venezuela #Yemen #CovertAction #JeffreyD.Sachs #JohnMearsheimer #JuanGuaidó #LeagueOfNations #LindseyO’rourke #RegimeChange #Sanctions #U.n.Charter

  5. Jeffrey Sachs Briefs UN on US Aggression in Venezuela
    consortiumnews.com/2026/01/05/
    The author advises the Security Council to fulfill its responsibilities by immediately affirming a series of actions in response to the U.S. attacks on Venezuela. The following remarks, as prepared for presentation, were made by Jeffrey D. Sachs, president of…
    #Politics #Colombia #Commentary #Denmark #InternationalLaw #Iran #Iraq #Mexico #Nigeria #ObamaAdministration #Syria #TrumpAdministration #U.n.SecurityCouncil #U.s. #Uncategorized #UnitedNations #Venezuela #Yemen #CovertAction #JeffreyD.Sachs #JohnMearsheimer #JuanGuaidó #LeagueOfNations #LindseyO’rourke #RegimeChange #Sanctions #U.n.Charter

  6. “I don’t think the basic nature of conventional warfare has changed – it still looks a lot like it did during the First and Second World Wars.”

    #JohnMearsheimer

    newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/09

    I literally laughed out loud at this one. How can you look at modern warfare, which is played out mainly using drones and cyberattacks, and claim that it's anything like the world wars?! It's like claiming WW1 was like the Napoleonic wars. Just nonsense.

  7. “I don’t think the basic nature of conventional warfare has changed – it still looks a lot like it did during the First and Second World Wars.”

    #JohnMearsheimer

    newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/09

    I literally laughed out loud at this one. How can you look at modern warfare, which is played out mainly using drones and cyberattacks, and claim that it's anything like the world wars?! It's like claiming WW1 was like the Napoleonic wars. Just nonsense.

  8. It's that same "prisoner's dilemma" paranoia that leads to potentially self-fulfilling prophecies like this;

    “China believes that there must be a way for it to rise peacefully. But it’s not going to happen. If China continues to rise, there is going to be a security competition with the US.”

    #JohnMearsheimer, 2025

    newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/09

    If China wants to trade in a peaceful world, and so does the US, it seems self-evident to me that peaceful co-existence can be negotiated.

    (1/3)

  9. It's that same "prisoner's dilemma" paranoia that leads to potentially self-fulfilling prophecies like this;

    “China believes that there must be a way for it to rise peacefully. But it’s not going to happen. If China continues to rise, there is going to be a security competition with the US.”

    #JohnMearsheimer, 2025

    newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/09

    If China wants to trade in a peaceful world, and so does the US, it seems self-evident to me that peaceful co-existence can be negotiated.

    (1/3)

  10. "The tragedy is that you could have two states who are content with the status quo and have no interest in fighting or competing for power. Nevertheless, because they cannot know each other’s intentions, and because they operate in an anarchic system, they have to assume the worst about each other and have to compete for power."

    #JohnMearsheimer

    newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/09

    Typical IR realist cant. Basically the RAND Corporation "prisoner's dilemma" paranoia that Adam Curtis explores in The Trap.

  11. "The tragedy is that you could have two states who are content with the status quo and have no interest in fighting or competing for power. Nevertheless, because they cannot know each other’s intentions, and because they operate in an anarchic system, they have to assume the worst about each other and have to compete for power."

    #JohnMearsheimer

    newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/09

    Typical IR realist cant. Basically the RAND Corporation "prisoner's dilemma" paranoia that Adam Curtis explores in The Trap.

  12. "Then in 2006, along with his co-author Stephen Walt, [John Mearsheimer] wrote 'The Israel Lobby', which examined the complex of organisations that sought to encourage the US to provide material aid to Israel, often against American strategic interests. It was subsequently published as a book in 2007, and the argument saw Mearsheimer and Walt labelled as anti-Semitic, liars and bigots."

    #GavinJacobson, September 2023

    newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/09

    That sounds familiar.

    #JohnMearsheimer #Israel

  13. "Then in 2006, along with his co-author Stephen Walt, [John Mearsheimer] wrote 'The Israel Lobby', which examined the complex of organisations that sought to encourage the US to provide material aid to Israel, often against American strategic interests. It was subsequently published as a book in 2007, and the argument saw Mearsheimer and Walt labelled as anti-Semitic, liars and bigots."

    #GavinJacobson, September 2023

    newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/09

    That sounds familiar.

    #JohnMearsheimer #Israel

  14. What the Sachs–Mearsheimer Debate Misses
    The World Is a Sphere, But It Needs Zones of Peace
    — Biljana Vankovska

    Also: Military-Industrial-Media-Academia Complex (MIMAC)

    #jeffreysachs #johnmearsheimer #geopolitics #speresofsecurity #BiljanaVankovska #mimac #media #military

  15. Jeffrey Sachs & John Mearsheimer: Spheres of Security to Prevent World War III

    How should the security needs of great powers be balanced with the sovereignty of smaller nations on their border? The concept of Spheres of Security limits the activity of other borders of other great powers. ... #Mexico does not have the freedom to host #Russian missiles or #Chinese military bases. This is common sense ...

    youtube.com/watch?v=Ntkc7AWujEU

    #jeffreysachs #johnmearsheimer #geopolitics #glenndiesen

  16. Jeffrey Sachs & John Mearsheimer: Spheres of Security to Prevent World War III

    How should the security needs of great powers be balanced with the sovereignty of smaller nations on their border? The concept of Spheres of Security limits the activity of other borders of other great powers. ... #Mexico does not have the freedom to host #Russian missiles or #Chinese military bases. This is common sense ...

    youtube.com/watch?v=Ntkc7AWujEU

    #jeffreysachs #johnmearsheimer #geopolitics #glenndiesen

  17. Glenn Diesen:
    "More than 500.000 people watched my discussion with John Mearsheimer & Jeffrey Sachs within the first two weeks
    - What should be the rules for military presence on the borders of other great powers?"

    youtu.be/Ntkc7AWujEU
    #ukraine #russia #geopolitics #johnmearsheimer #jeffreysachs #glenndiesen

  18. @telepolis

    Genau wegen solcher peinlichen Artikel hat #Telepolis den Ruf, für unseriöse Schwurbeleien zu stehen.

    Euer Putinversteher #LucaSchäfer hat wohl noch nicht mitbekommen, dass alle "Analysen" von #JohnMearsheimer längst widerlegt wurden. Stattdessen bezeichnet er dessen reaktionären Unsinn als "erfrischend-kontrovers".

    Und die Behauptung, dass der unschuldige Putin von der Nato dazu gezwungen wurde, die Ukraine zu überfallen, wird auch durch eure Wiederholungen nicht wahrer.

  19. As U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska for a high-stakes summit, Democracy Now host a debate between two foreign policy thinkers about the war.

    John Mearsheimer is an international relations theorist at the University of Chicago, known for his realist perspective. He has long argued that Western policies are the main cause of the Ukraine crisis.

    youtube.com/watch?v=VyWTNuXCcmk

    #ukraine #russia #johnmearsheimer #mattdruss #democracynow #alaskasummit

  20. Well.......That's gonna hurt a lot

    #JohnMearsheimer Trump and Witkoff are probably the only people who want this war to end.

    #EU, Zelensky, and the #US neoliberal establishment, including Marco Rubio, continue to redouble their efforts to continue the war.

  21. Great conversation on #foreignpolicy , #Russia, #China (and even #India ). It was 7 months ago and was light on the Middle East... largely because of the conversation itself.

    Grab snacks.

    #JohnMearsheimer #JeffreySachs

    youtube.com/watch?v=uvFtyDy_Bt

  22. The interview of Prof. #JohnMearsheimer attracted many bots with Ukrainian flags and some moron NOFOs.
    And I, who thought that all of them had been permanently lost in the oblivion of History.
    I guess there are still some zombies around us.

  23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4wLXNydzeY

    John Mearsheimer is in my opinion a most clear thinking and correct in his assesment on the current Russian Ukraine situation and its background.
    The segment on the podcast about Russia and Ukraine is a must see/listen. Yes there are uncomfortable truths being exposed, for us in the West that is, we are not as innocent as we like to believe. And Russia for their part did a lot more to avoid war, for years on end, than we in the West are aware of. This lack of knowledge about affairs and failure in putting yourself in the persons shoes seeing things from their perspective leads to foolish thoughts and misunderstandings. At least Lex Fridman promotes voices you seldom hear, John Mearsheimer does an excellent job in explaining the situation as objectively as he can, can't say that about or Western news media.
    Also, the topic of China and the Israel/Palestine being discussed on the podcast was good listening.

    #LexFridman #Podcast #JohnMearsheimer #War #Russia #Ukraine