It is not winning, when you degrade your moral status. It means you take all the money you got for the month, spend it in one day on some crazy things and then starve. The more sophisticated people on this planet also think ahead and deal with what comes after death. Leaders nowadays are empty plastic bottles. Uninspiring, self-sabotaging fools. It is not clever to not know about these things and be ignorant. Anyways I have my complain-day today, just ignore. Any Ai program is on the same level with these people. There is no real difference, when all people do is stubbornly repeat patterns like a computer-program completely ignoring the options and potential life offers. God is alive, spirits are alive, but curiosity is DEAD.
Absolutely! I laugh every time Ukraine holds Russia at bey or pushes Russia back to the hell they came from!
Have you noticed the smallest countries are causing the most trouble in the world?!?
Now the smallest in the region of the Middle East (Israel) has convinced the deadhead ruining America, Donvict d’Rump to assist him with another land grab in Iran! Netanyahu hasn’t finished the genocide in Gaza he started so he could steal their land!
All three leaders need to be arrested and turned over to the ICC for prosecution and execution!
why can't name things as they are? How about ""Bullied and remote controlled by AIPAC, the Democratic establishment thwarted Bernie Sanders"?.... and he had no effective response besides a bunch of whining 😕
John, one thread I keep coming back to in your framework is the idea that the US-Israel relationship is deeply embedded (almost “joined at the hip”) yet at the same time increasingly exposed to the same structural pressures you describe as reshaping the broader international system. In the transcript, you argue that the US is being forced by structure to pivot toward East Asia and China, while also being pulled into a far more consequential and unwinnable conflict with Iran, in large part because of its alignment with Israel. That creates a tension that feels qualitatively different from prior episodes of disagreement - less about policy divergence, and more about competing strategic imperatives operating on different time horizons.
So, the question I’m trying to sharpen is this: where, when, and under what conditions do those incentives begin to materially misalign in a way that actually stresses the relationship - not rhetorically, but structurally? Put differently, is there a plausible path in which the U.S., under pressure from a deteriorating global position (China containment, resource constraints, economic fallout from conflicts like Iran), begins to view its alignment with Israel as a net strategic liability rather than an asset? And if so, what would be the catalyst—does it emerge gradually through overstretch and reprioritization, or does it require a discrete event (for example, an escalation dynamic with Iran that the U.S. cannot control but is forced to absorb)?
Related to that, you make the point that domestic political constraints—particularly the influence of Israel and its supporters in the US - effectively limit Washington’s ability to cut a deal even when it is the only rational outcome. But that raises a second-order question: are there scenarios where structural pressures overwhelm those domestic constraints? In other words, what are the plausible pathways (from here) that could lead not just to tactical divergence, but to a genuine fracture in alignment? Is that something that only happens at the tail end of systemic stress (e.g., economic crisis, major military failure), or can it emerge earlier as part of the transition into a multipolar system you describe?
The Israel lobby is powerful because the deep state set it up that way. When Israel is no longer serving US imperial interests I'm sure the actual rulers of the US will find a way to deal with it.
As much as I like John Mearsheimer, I don’t like hearing him say that if he were in the Iranian leadership. He would want to see the US start the war up again. People are literally being blown apart, dying under rubble, etc., .
Would John Mearsheimer say such a thing if it was his family, his loved ones being mown down?
I suppose every country wants its own version of a military advantage, but it always seems to come at the cost of defenseless people.
If Israel were to return the land to the Palestinians (the 49% that the British were willing to leave them), and/or allow the Palestinians to live as citizen with the same rights as Israelis, and thus not pursue the idea of a Jewish state (for Jews only), then no Palestinian or any other Arab/Muslim/Persian... would have any reason to attack the Israelis.
Israel should also give up its nuclear weapons if it doesn't want the Iranians to build an atomic bomb.
Equal rights for all peoples of this earth.
Israel has caused enough death and destruction since beginning of the 1900s, behaving cruelly, and intolerantly towards the inhabitants of Palestine (Nakba, etc., etc.) and continuing to kill and expropriate the Palestinians of the little land they have. It's time to reconcile with the Palestinians and the surrounding countries if the Jews want to remain there.
-The likelihood, given Trump's behavior, that Israel is blackmailing him with incriminating info, possibly via Jeffrey Epstein.
-What would actually happen if Israel and/or the US used nuclear weapons on Iran? Would that be the end of Iran or could it end Israel with non-nuclear weapons (or even nuclear weapons, which it might already have it could soon?) And would it end up causing Russia or China to use nuclear weapons on Israel or the US?
-Why would an existential threat to Israel be an existential threat to the US? I don't see it.
It is not winning, when you degrade your moral status. It means you take all the money you got for the month, spend it in one day on some crazy things and then starve. The more sophisticated people on this planet also think ahead and deal with what comes after death. Leaders nowadays are empty plastic bottles. Uninspiring, self-sabotaging fools. It is not clever to not know about these things and be ignorant. Anyways I have my complain-day today, just ignore. Any Ai program is on the same level with these people. There is no real difference, when all people do is stubbornly repeat patterns like a computer-program completely ignoring the options and potential life offers. God is alive, spirits are alive, but curiosity is DEAD.
The idea that Ukraine can beat Russia is laughable.
Absolutely! I laugh every time Ukraine holds Russia at bey or pushes Russia back to the hell they came from!
Have you noticed the smallest countries are causing the most trouble in the world?!?
Now the smallest in the region of the Middle East (Israel) has convinced the deadhead ruining America, Donvict d’Rump to assist him with another land grab in Iran! Netanyahu hasn’t finished the genocide in Gaza he started so he could steal their land!
All three leaders need to be arrested and turned over to the ICC for prosecution and execution!
why can't name things as they are? How about ""Bullied and remote controlled by AIPAC, the Democratic establishment thwarted Bernie Sanders"?.... and he had no effective response besides a bunch of whining 😕
John, one thread I keep coming back to in your framework is the idea that the US-Israel relationship is deeply embedded (almost “joined at the hip”) yet at the same time increasingly exposed to the same structural pressures you describe as reshaping the broader international system. In the transcript, you argue that the US is being forced by structure to pivot toward East Asia and China, while also being pulled into a far more consequential and unwinnable conflict with Iran, in large part because of its alignment with Israel. That creates a tension that feels qualitatively different from prior episodes of disagreement - less about policy divergence, and more about competing strategic imperatives operating on different time horizons.
So, the question I’m trying to sharpen is this: where, when, and under what conditions do those incentives begin to materially misalign in a way that actually stresses the relationship - not rhetorically, but structurally? Put differently, is there a plausible path in which the U.S., under pressure from a deteriorating global position (China containment, resource constraints, economic fallout from conflicts like Iran), begins to view its alignment with Israel as a net strategic liability rather than an asset? And if so, what would be the catalyst—does it emerge gradually through overstretch and reprioritization, or does it require a discrete event (for example, an escalation dynamic with Iran that the U.S. cannot control but is forced to absorb)?
Related to that, you make the point that domestic political constraints—particularly the influence of Israel and its supporters in the US - effectively limit Washington’s ability to cut a deal even when it is the only rational outcome. But that raises a second-order question: are there scenarios where structural pressures overwhelm those domestic constraints? In other words, what are the plausible pathways (from here) that could lead not just to tactical divergence, but to a genuine fracture in alignment? Is that something that only happens at the tail end of systemic stress (e.g., economic crisis, major military failure), or can it emerge earlier as part of the transition into a multipolar system you describe?
The Israel lobby is powerful because the deep state set it up that way. When Israel is no longer serving US imperial interests I'm sure the actual rulers of the US will find a way to deal with it.
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As much as I like John Mearsheimer, I don’t like hearing him say that if he were in the Iranian leadership. He would want to see the US start the war up again. People are literally being blown apart, dying under rubble, etc., .
Would John Mearsheimer say such a thing if it was his family, his loved ones being mown down?
I suppose every country wants its own version of a military advantage, but it always seems to come at the cost of defenseless people.
The USA has formally advised the UN that they attacked Iran at the REQUEST of Israel
Ukraine is not part of NATO
How much cost to a country invest in war compare to how much cost to invest in health, education,
…food, welfare, development of its population?
If Israel were to return the land to the Palestinians (the 49% that the British were willing to leave them), and/or allow the Palestinians to live as citizen with the same rights as Israelis, and thus not pursue the idea of a Jewish state (for Jews only), then no Palestinian or any other Arab/Muslim/Persian... would have any reason to attack the Israelis.
Israel should also give up its nuclear weapons if it doesn't want the Iranians to build an atomic bomb.
Equal rights for all peoples of this earth.
Israel has caused enough death and destruction since beginning of the 1900s, behaving cruelly, and intolerantly towards the inhabitants of Palestine (Nakba, etc., etc.) and continuing to kill and expropriate the Palestinians of the little land they have. It's time to reconcile with the Palestinians and the surrounding countries if the Jews want to remain there.
Please consider discussing next:
-The likelihood, given Trump's behavior, that Israel is blackmailing him with incriminating info, possibly via Jeffrey Epstein.
-What would actually happen if Israel and/or the US used nuclear weapons on Iran? Would that be the end of Iran or could it end Israel with non-nuclear weapons (or even nuclear weapons, which it might already have it could soon?) And would it end up causing Russia or China to use nuclear weapons on Israel or the US?
-Why would an existential threat to Israel be an existential threat to the US? I don't see it.
Thank you!
Do you plan on asking your guests to comment on Trump’s mental decline?
Further, I don’t see the humor or irony (another type of humor) when discussing the war with Iran.