Podcast appearances and mentions of John Mearsheimer

It is commonplace for American leaders to describe their fiercest foreign adversaries as irrational, crazy, delusional, or illogical. In their new book, “How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy,” political scientists John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Sebastian Rosato of the University of Notre Dame argue that these claims and many similar ones are often wrong because they're based on a flawed understanding of state rationality and international affairs.Jack Goldsmith questioned Mearsheimer and Rosato about why they think most states act rationally most of the time in developing grand strategy and managing crises. Among other topics, they discussed how their theory of state rationality differs from rational choice theorists and political psychologists, why understanding state rationality is important to success in international affairs, and why Mearsheimer, a harsh critic of U.S. expansion of NATO and of the U.S. choice to pursue liberal hegemony after the Cold War, nonetheless argues in this book that those decisions were rational. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An Endgame for the Ukrainian War w/ John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen Bound to Lose. Ukraine's 2023 Counteroffensive: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/bound-to-lose

John Mearsheimer, the eminent political scientist who has warned for years that NATO's Ukraine policy would lead to disaster, joins Aaron Maté to assess the state of the Ukraine proxy war and the dangers ahead. Guest: John Mearsheimer. R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Support Pushback: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate

When great powers feel insecure and vulnerable, they lash out in unpredictable ways. This is what happened after the United States was attacked on 9/11, and it's happening now as Russia feels besieged and encircled by NATO.According to American political scientist John Mearsheimer, the Ukraine war could have been avoided if the West had abandoned the idea of Ukraine joining NATO from the start.He tells The Bottom Line host Steve Clemons that the West is happy to support a frozen conflict that weakens Russia, but not NATO membership for Ukraine and direct involvement in the war.Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#News

Harvey and Jim reflect on Glenn Greenwald's recent interview with John Mearsheimer in an attempt to spread the thought that it is important to look at the Russian/Ukrainian war from Russia's perspective to understand what provoked Putin and what we can expect in the future. Beyond that Mearsheimer also points out the effects of this war on the global power structure, the US/Nato's capabilities, the continuing escalation, Ukraine's untenable position and more. This clearly is not pretty.

A version of this essay has been published by firstpost.com at https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/shadow-warrior-mr-modi-goes-to-washington-deja-vu-all-over-again-12750892.htmlConsidering that India and the US are my two favorite countries, it is odd that I get nervous whenever there is a summit between the two. I am reminded inevitably of the Frank Capra film “Mr Smith goes to Washington” (1939), where James Stewart plays Mr Smith, a naive idealist, who goes to the corrupt company town Washington DC and is bullied and humiliated. In the end (this being fiction) Mr Smith wins a famous victory for democracy and the power of the people.In real life, things are different. Mr Modi is not naive, and he is a pragmatist (though there is a wee bit of an idealist in him), and he is quite aware of the Deep State and its regime-change agendas (e.g. they just did one in Brazil, defenestrating Bolsonaro, although it didn't quite work with Hungary's Orban). Besides, I am sure that the PM remembers the same Democrats giving him the dubious distinction of being the only person ever denied a visa on the grounds of “severe violation of religious freedom”, purportedly for the Gujarat riots in 2002. Yes, along the same lines as the absurd USCIRF.When Democrats are in power, things simply don't seem to go well for Indo-US relations. There are many reasons: one is that Democrats on average seem to prefer autocrats and uniformed caudillos because hey, they get things done; another is that many are Atlanticists, and quite a few are of Eastern European origin (eg Brzezinski, Albright, Nuland, Blinken) with scant regard for Indo-Pacific issues; a third is that they tend to be woke (trans-gender bathrooms, yeah!). The Clinton Administration and especially the Obama Administration were unpleasant to India, in keeping with the above tendencies Democrats exhibit. Manmohan Singh was, with much hoopla, given the “first state dinner” by Obama, which so far as I can tell meant nothing whatsoever. It was an empty gesture. In fact, I have been underwhelmed by various US shows of bonhomie. I panned the Obama state visit in 2010. To be honest, I have not been an admirer of Obama from day one, and the current Biden Administration seems to be, for all practical purposes, Obama 3.0: same ruinous economic and foreign policies, mostly the same tired faces, the same wokeness. Even though I am Republican-leaning, I was not all that impressed by Narendra Modi's interaction with Trump in 2017 either. Certainly, Trump was a lot better than the Democrats, but then I expected Trump to look out, correctly, for US interests, rather than do anything for India, even though Republicans understand the China threat better. Earlier, I thought the entire full-court-press and hard-sell on the 2008 ‘nuclear deal' simply indicated that it was a good deal for the US, and not so good for India. In the event, India's nuclear power production capacity did not go up dramatically, India became a much bigger buyer of US military hardware, and there were surely (non-public) limitations placed on India's nuclear weapons programs. I guess I suffer from the soft bigotry of low expectations. I think this is a selling job on the part of the Americans, and that ill-prepared Indians will be taken in by flattery. Therefore I continue to be skeptical about the real value of the current tour by Modi to meet Biden, and have a ‘state dinner' with him. In fact, I do hope Modi will take his own chef with him. Let's be careful remembering (God forbid) what happened to Lal Bahadur Shastri. I get particularly suspicious when The Economist magazine, which is the voice of the Deep State, starts waxing eloquent about something. Apart from the fact that they are generally wrong about all their geopolitical forecasts, being unvarnished imperialists, I am reminded of Kissinger's dictum: “It is dangerous to be America's enemy, but fatal to be America's friend”. I tried to get Microsoft Bing and DALL-E to get me an AI-generated image of the great mans' quote, but I was warned sternly that such a query was “against content rules” (whatever they are) and that I would be kicked off the platform! So I am satisfying myself with this Economist cover story, which apparently is a parody of some Netflix show. Prospects are actually worse for Indo-American rapport today than they have been for years, although it should be the opposite, given rampaging China. The principal reason is Democrat antipathy: for instance Biden's staff explicitly hurt India in the past with the so-called Biden Amendment that set India's space program back by 19 years by pressing the Russians to cancel the transfer of cryogenic engines, as seen in the brilliant “Rocketry: the Nambi Effect”.On top of this, the US has hurt itself in the last few years through disastrous policies, allowing others to gain power in relative terms. So when Modi goes to Washington, it would be appropriate to revisit the old story about the emperor, the vassal king and his court bard, who wrote a new poem extolling the emperor as “the full moon”, and the king as “the new moon”. Upon being berated by the king for diminishing him, the bard explained: “The full moon is waning, and the new moon is waxing.” This mollified the king, presumably saving the bard from having his head separated from his body. India is on a trajectory to achieve economic (and military) power, but then it may or may not be in the US's interests to accommodate India. The on-again, off-again US approach to the Quad (eg the AUKUS diversion) signals that the US is not serious about India's concerns regarding China's hegemonic ambitions. Not only US politicians, but the steady stream of Wall Street and business honchos making a beeline for China suggests that even for the money folks, despite calls for ‘de-coupling' or ‘de-risking', China is very much a factor in their future plans. The US has made several strategic, even existential, blunders in the recent past, and again I think the Democrats are mostly to blame:* The US actively collaborated in the rise of China by allowing it to be a principal manufacturing partner. People such as Henry Kissinger and several POTUSes wittingly or unwittingly helped in a process where China effectively de-industrialized the US. As the realist foreign policy analyst John Mearsheimer suggests, this may be the worst example ever of a major power paving the way for its own eclipse. * The unnecessary Ukraine war, with the singular goal of humiliating and possibly balkanizing Russia, has already had disastrous consequences for Western Europe. Russia is a demographically declining power, and it will eventually fade away on its own; wasting enormous amounts of money and effort on ‘punishing' it is a folly, as was the peremptory, headlong abandonment of Afghanistan to the Taliban. By pushing Russia into China's dhritharashtra embrace, the Ukraine war is counterproductive strategically.* The emerging facts about the Covid pandemic suggest that Anthony Fauci and others were working with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on ‘gain-of-function', in direct contravention of US law. In addition, the poorly handled fiscal and monetary policies in relation to the pandemic have imposed pain, including high inflation, on the US. * The awful culture wars and the focus on gender issues, diversity, equity, climate change and other divisive issues have been tearing the US apart since Obama's time. Objectively speaking, some of these are manufactured issues. In addition, there is clear deterioration in the system, where now we have the unedifying spectacle of an ex-President indicted on mishandling classified documents, and the sitting President is accused of the same, as well as of relatives doing influence peddling. None of this is a good look. The US is in trouble. Which it pains me to say, because I think the ideals of the ‘City on a hill' that animate the spirit of the US Constitution still resonate after all these years. It is hard to think that the US is being overtaken by an authoritarian China. Anyway, I think the general idea from the Biden Administration's point of view is to get India into its orbit as a vassal, just like most of Western Europe, Japan, Australia, etc. The nastiness at the time India stoutly refused to toe the US/NATO line on Ukraine is a signal about this. People like the Portuguese Bruno Macaes and Duleep Singh, the architect of the Russia sanctions, chided India severely; the official US stance was that India somehow betrayed their trust. They couldn't accept that India has no dog in this very European/Western fight. I suspect a big part of the backroom negotiations on the PM's trip will be to get India to toe the line on Ukraine. There will be various sticks and carrots dangled, such as technology transfers (which is actually an oxymoron, as nobody in their right mind transfers technology; the only way it happens is if you steal it, like China does). Then there is the GE fighter aircraft engine under discussion, and vague talk about quantum computing and other exotic stuff.There will be more efforts to wean India away from Russian arms imports, and to sell lots of US hardware. There are expensive drones being discussed. An expert told me that if these are Reaper-class Sea Guardians, they may be a good buy, as they can be paired with the submarine hunter-killer surveillance craft, the P8i Poseidon, to help patrol the Indian Ocean.All in all, the prospects for a mutually beneficial outcome seem bleak. Let us just hope that the Indians don't come back with a whole lot of lemons, having been bamboozled. Again. 1473 words, June 15th 2023, updated June 17th This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com

This month we are looking into the following stories: Economic coercion is BAD if it comes from China, but great if it comes from the USA (AFR) John Mearsheimer can't see any room for peace talks in Ukraine as all sides see it as an existential threat (Youtube) The Russian economy continues to flout Western expectations (The Guardian) US Continues Dangerous Escalations in Ukraine, Sprinting Toward Catastrophe (Glenn Greenwald)  Obama's views on Ukraine in 2016 (The Atlantic) Niall Ferguson on US strategy to bleed Russia dry in Ukraine  (Bloomberg) Jeffrey Sachs on Nord Stream (YouTube) Skepticism about Bellingcat (Glenn Greewald) FBI lacked evidence for alleged Trump-Russia collusion probe, US Special Counsel finds (ABC Australia, Seymour Hersh) Olver Stone's interviews with Putin (Youtube)   The post BS Filter 117 – Economic Coercion appeared first on The BS Filter.

Raquel Vaz-Pinto é Investigadora do Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais (IPRI) da Universidade Nova de Lisboa e Prof. Auxiliar Convidada da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da mesma Universidade, onde lecciona as disciplinas de Estudos Asiáticos e História das Relações Internacionais. Foi consultora do Conselho de Administração da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian de 2020 a 2022 e Presidente da Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política de 2012 a 2016. Autora de vários artigos e livros entre os quais A Grande Muralha e o Legado de Tiananmen, a China e os Direitos Humanos editado pela Tinta-da-China e Os Portugueses e o Mundo editado pela Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.  Os seus interesses de investigação são Política Externa e Estratégia Chinesa; os EUA e o Indo-Pacífico; e Liderança e Estratégia. É analista residente de política internacional da SIC e da TSF. Actualmente, está a terminar um livro, que será publicado pela Tinta-da-china, sobre os desafios colocados pela China às democracias liberais europeias, incluindo a portuguesa. ->Workshop de Pensamento Crítico: sessões de Lisboa, Porto e online esgotadas! Inscreva-se aqui para ser avisado(a) de futuras edições. -> Apoie este podcast e faça parte da comunidade de mecenas do 45 Graus em: 45grauspodcast.com _______________ Índice (com timestamps): ​(9:47) O que mudou na rivalidade CN-EUA desde o nosso episódio de 2018? | Wolf warrior diplomacy | Os diplomatas chineses mal-comportados | Índia | Quad (30:18) A política externa dos EUA em relação à China começou por ser complacente e tornou-se demasiado agressiva? | Artigo de John Mearsheimer | Estratégia dos G7 em relação à CN: do decoupling ao de-risking | Matérias primas críticas e terras raras (e aqui) (42:10) Já podemos falar de uma Guerra Fria entre EUA e CN? | A Armadilha de Tucídides (Livro: História da Guerra do Peloponeso)| Houve uma crença exagerada no Ocidente nos efeitos da abertura económica? | Como os manuais de economia americanos sobrevalorizam a economia da URSS | Frase atribuída a Deng Xiaoping: «Hide your strength, bide your time» (55:26) Comparação China vs URSS | O papel da ideologia na guerra fria vs na nova ‘ordem chinesa' | Aumento do autoritarismo do regime chinês | Digital Dictators | Cimeira da Ásia Central, sem a Rússia | Nova política externa defendida pelo SPD alemão | A nova ambição da China para o Ártico (1:18:37) O que esperar do futuro -- e o que fazer para evitar uma escalada do conflito? | Tese do ‘peak China' | O problema demográfico da china (e os telefonemas aos recém-casados) | Livro: Leftover Women, de Leta Hong Fincher | Episódio com Hu Jintao no congresso do CCP | European Critical Raw Materials Act | A integração económica é um garante de que não ocorre uma guerra ou é, pelo contrário, uma fonte permanente de tensões? _______________ Pode parecer estranho o que vou dizer -- tendo em conta que a política internacional parece estar  dominada pela Guerra da Ucrânia desde fevereiro do ano passado -- mas a verdade é que, muito provavelmente, não será este o tema central das Relações Internacionais da nossa época.  O tema que vai marcar, muito provavelmente, as próximas décadas é outro: a rivalidade entre os Estados Unidos e a China, que se vai instalando à medida que esta vai ascendendo na ordem internacional e disputando a ordem unipolar até aqui dominada pelos norte-americanos. Há mesmo quem ache que já estamos a viver uma nova Guerra Fria entre as duas potências. Esta ideia não será novidade para os mais atentos a estas lides, e sobretudo não o é para quem ouviu o episódio #38 do 45 Graus, publicado em 2018, cuja convidada foi Raquel Vaz Pinto. O tema geral desse episódio foi a China e um dos tópicos que discutimos foi, precisamente, até que ponto a rivalidade entre Pequim e Washington iria marcar as próximas décadas. Ora, se já na altura, há quase 5 anos, isso era uma probabilidade forte, hoje é quase uma certeza. Ao mesmo tempo, passou-se entretanto muita coisa na relação entre os dois países, desenvolvimentos esses que nos vieram dar uma ideia mais clara (embora ainda repleta de incógnitas) sobre a forma que esta rivalidade poderá tomar nos próximos anos. Além disso, ao longo destes anos, fui recebendo muitos elogios ao episódio -- não só pela relevância do tema (que justificava mais do que um episódio), mas, sobretudo, pela convidada. A Raquel não só sabe muito, como é uma excelente comunicadora.  Por isso, decidi convidá-la para regressar ao 45 Graus para discutir este tema: com mais profundidade do que na 1ª conversa e tirando partido da informação adicional que hoje temos. E ela teve a gentileza de aceitar. Raquel Vaz-Pinto é Investigadora do Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais (IPRI) da Universidade Nova de Lisboa e Prof. Auxiliar Convidada da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da mesma Universidade, onde lecciona as disciplinas de Estudos Asiáticos e História das Relações Internacionais. Foi consultora do Conselho de Administração da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian de 2020 a 2022 e Presidente da Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política de 2012 a 2016. Autora de vários artigos e livros entre os quais A Grande Muralha e o Legado de Tiananmen, a China e os Direitos Humanos editado pela Tinta-da-China e Os Portugueses e o Mundo editado pela Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.  Os seus interesses de investigação são Política Externa e Estratégia Chinesa; os EUA e o Indo-Pacífico; e Liderança e Estratégia. É analista residente de política internacional da SIC e da TSF. Actualmente, a terminar um livro, que será publicado pela Tinta-da-china, sobre os desafios colocados pela China às democracias liberais europeias, incluindo a portuguesa. Quando gravámos a nossa conversa em 2018, estas tensões entre os EUA e a China estavam ainda, de certa forma, no início. Donald Trump tinha tomado posse apenas no início do ano anterior, pondo em prática uma mudança radical na postura americana em relação à China, impondo tarifas a uma série de bens chineses. Essa medida gerou uma réplica do lado chinês, dando início a uma guerra comercial entre os dois países.  Mas, desde então, já muita tinta correu. A guerra comercial -- mesmo já com a Administração Biden -- acentuou-se e estendeu-se a outras áreas, e os dois países têm acumulado várias divergências na arena internacional, nomeadamente em relação à Guerra da Ucrânia, na qual a China tem adoptado uma postura no mínimo ambivalente. teoricamente neutra mas, na prática, próxima da Russia. Ao mesmo tempo, a retórica belicosa que Trump tinha inaugurado do lado norte-americano tem sido mais do que correspondida do lado chinês, com líderes políticos e diplomatas a adoptarem um discurso cada vez mais assertivo (e, em alguns casos, mesmo agressivo). Estas disputas comerciais e divergências geopolíticas são, no entanto, segundo muitos analistas, apenas as causas próximas do aumento da conflitualidade entre CN e EUA. A causa última – o factor fundamental por trás desta mudança – reside, para muitos, na denominada ‘Armadilha de Tucídides', de que falámos também no episódio de 2018.  A ‘armadilha' tem este nome porque foi postulada pela primeira vez pelo historiador ateniense Tucídides, na sua História da Guerra do Peloponeso, que opôs Atenas a Esparta. Segundo ele, a guerra entre os dois era inevitável, uma vez que Atenas estava a crescer e ganhar poder, o que fazia aumentar a sua ambição, enquanto essa situação gerava em Esparta, o poder incumbente uma forte ansiedade.  Esta ideia tem sido amplamente discutida nos últimos tempos, a propósito da rivalidade CN-EUA, por académicos e analistas, tanto do lado norte-americano como também do chinês. Um dos mais conhecidos é Graham Allison, que popularizou o conceito no seu livro: Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? , Segundo os proponentes da “Armadilha”, sempre que uma potência emergente ameaça substituir uma potência hegemónica existe uma tendência inexorável para a guerra entre as duas. Aplicada à relação entre a China e os EUA, isto implica que à medida que o poder económico e militar da primeira se vai aproximando do dos EUA, isso cria-lhe, inevitavelmente, um sentimento de auto-importância crescente e de direito a ter um papel mais activo na política global. Ao mesmo tempo, cria nos Estados Unidos, a potência incumbente, medo, insegurança e uma determinação de defender o status quo a todo o custo .  Esta visão da Armadilha de Tucídides enquanto espécie de “lei das relações internacionais” atinge o seu pináculo em académicos da chamada escola ultra-realista das RI. O maior exemplo -- de quem falamos no episódio -- é talvez John Mearsheimer (de quem também falei no episódio sobre a Guerra da Ucrânia, com Lívia Franco).  Para Mearsheimer, esta armadilha é de tal modo uma inevitabilidade, que afirma que o governo norte-americano deveria ter antecipado o perigo do crescimento económico acelerado da China e, simplesmente, tentado impedi-lo.  Ancorados nesta ideia, há, assim, um número crescente de analistas e oficiais -- tanto nos Estados Unidos como na China -- que discutem hoje, abertamente, a possibilidade de um conflito entre os dois países, seja ele uma guerra directa (de maior ou menor escala) ou uma guerra fria, como a com a URSS, sem conflitos directos mas com as charadas “guerras por procuração”.  No entanto, como a Raquel chama a atenção, as RI são demasiado complexas para podermos tomar esta armadilha como lei de forma simplista. Há factores que contribuem para este desenlace, mas outros há que não e, sobretudo, persistem ainda muitas incógnitas sobre o que pode acontecer.  Espero que gostem! _______________ Obrigado aos mecenas do podcast: Francisco Hermenegildo, Ricardo Evangelista, Henrique Pais João Baltazar, Salvador Cunha, Abilio Silva, Tiago Leite, Carlos Martins, Galaró family, Corto Lemos, Miguel Marques, Nuno Costa, Nuno e Ana, João Ribeiro, Helder Miranda, Pedro Lima Ferreira, Cesar Carpinteiro, Luis Fernambuco, Fernando Nunes, Manuel Canelas, Tiago Gonçalves, Carlos Pires, João Domingues, Hélio Bragança da Silva, Sandra Ferreira , Paulo Encarnação , BFDC, António Mexia Santos, Luís Guido, Bruno Heleno Tomás Costa, João Saro, Daniel Correia, Rita Mateus, António Padilha, Tiago Queiroz, Carmen Camacho, João Nelas, Francisco Fonseca, Rafael Santos, Andreia Esteves, Ana Teresa Mota, ARUNE BHURALAL, Mário Lourenço, RB, Maria Pimentel, Luis, Geoffrey Marcelino, Alberto Alcalde, António Rocha Pinto, Ruben de Bragança, João Vieira dos Santos, David Teixeira Alves, Armindo Martins , Carlos Nobre, Bernardo Vidal Pimentel, António Oliveira, Paulo Barros, Nuno Brites, Lígia Violas, Tiago Sequeira, Zé da Radio, João Morais, André Gamito, Diogo Costa, Pedro Ribeiro, Bernardo Cortez Vasco Sá Pinto, David , Tiago Pires, Mafalda Pratas, Joana Margarida Alves Martins, Luis Marques, João Raimundo, Francisco Arantes, Mariana Barosa, Nuno Gonçalves, Pedro Rebelo, Miguel Palhas, Ricardo Duarte, Duarte , Tomás Félix, Vasco Lima, Francisco Vasconcelos, Telmo , José Oliveira Pratas, Jose Pedroso, João Diogo Silva, Joao Diogo, José Proença, João Crispim, João Pinho , Afonso Martins, Robertt Valente, João Barbosa, Renato Mendes, Maria Francisca Couto, Antonio Albuquerque, Ana Sousa Amorim, Francisco Santos, Lara Luís, Manuel Martins, Macaco Quitado, Paulo Ferreira, Diogo Rombo, Francisco Manuel Reis, Bruno Lamas, Daniel Almeida, Patrícia Esquível , Diogo Silva, Luis Gomes, Cesar Correia, Cristiano Tavares, Pedro Gaspar, Gil Batista Marinho, Maria Oliveira, João Pereira, Rui Vilao, João Ferreira, Wedge, José Losa, Hélder Moreira, André Abrantes, Henrique Vieira, João Farinha, Manuel Botelho da Silva, João Diamantino, Ana Rita Laureano, Pedro L, Nuno Malvar, Joel, Rui Antunes7, Tomás Saraiva, Cloé Leal de Magalhães, Joao Barbosa, paulo matos, Fábio Monteiro, Tiago Stock, Beatriz Bagulho, Pedro Bravo, Antonio Loureiro, Hugo Ramos, Inês Inocêncio, Telmo Gomes, Sérgio Nunes, Tiago Pedroso, Teresa Pimentel, Rita Noronha, miguel farracho, José Fangueiro, Zé, Margarida Correia-Neves, Bruno Pinto Vitorino, João Lopes, Joana Pereirinha, Gonçalo Baptista, Dario Rodrigues, tati lima, Pedro On The Road, Catarina Fonseca, JC Pacheco, Sofia Ferreira, Inês Ribeiro, Miguel Jacinto, Tiago Agostinho, Margarida Costa Almeida, Helena Pinheiro, Rui Martins, Fábio Videira Santos, Tomás Lucena, João Freitas, Ricardo Sousa, RJ, Francisco Seabra Guimarães, Carlos Branco, David Palhota, Carlos Castro, Alexandre Alves, Cláudia Gomes Batista, Ana Leal, Ricardo Trindade, Luís Machado, Andrzej Stuart-Thompson, Diego Goulart, Filipa Portela, Paulo Rafael, Paloma Nunes, Marta Mendonca, Teresa Painho, Duarte Cameirão, Rodrigo Silva, José Alberto Gomes, Joao Gama, Cristina Loureiro, Tiago Gama, Tiago Rodrigues, Miguel Duarte, Ana Cantanhede, Artur Castro Freire, Rui Passos Rocha, Pedro Costa Antunes, Sofia Almeida, Ricardo Andrade Guimarães, Daniel Pais, Miguel Bastos, Luís Santos _______________ Esta conversa foi editada por: Hugo Oliveira

Target executives are scrambling to contain the fury of its core customer base after nationwide displays of pro-trans and pro-gay clothing in the children and baby section. Target's stock is tanking and calls for a boycott are increasing. Also today: Hungary's Prime Minister says the quiet part out loud...and he's backed up by John Mearsheimer.

Hil Aked joins PTO to talk about their new book, Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity, the first book length treatment of the pro-Israel lobby in Britain. We talked about the strategies that Israel and pro-Israel organisations in Britain have adopted to deflect criticism of the ongoing occupation and the dispossession of the Palestinian people, and their efforts to undermine the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. Hil explained why they characterise contemporary Zionism as a "social movement from above" and how apartheid-era South Africa was a forerunner for some of the public relations techniques adopted by Israel and its outriders. We also talked about John Mearsheimer and Steven Walt's 2007 book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign policy and where Hil's analysis differs from theirs. We also discussed the pitfalls of writing on this topic at a time of increasing anti-semitism. And finally, we talked about why parliamentary support for Israel was once stronger within the Labour party than the Conservatives, and what the role of the Labour and Conservative friends of Israel groups is today.

“I think the situation we face today in the world is much more dangerous than it was during the Cold War,” warned realist John J. Mearsheimer in this conversation as the global order shifts. Criticized by Michael McFaul in Endgame 134, John Mearsheimer defends his argument on the cause and consequences of the Ukraine War which he concludes as “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics”. Professor Mearsheimer shares his view on why the US hates his realism theory, who will benefit from the prolonged Ukraine War, and how the climate crisis might increase the geopolitical tension over the Arctic region. #Endgame #GitaWirjawan #JohnMearsheimer Supported by the Indonesian Students Association at the University of Chicago. -----------------SGPP Indonesia Master of Public Policy: admissions@sgpp.ac.id | admissions.sgpp.ac.id | wa.me/628111522504 Other "Endgame" episode playlists: Global Thinkers | Wandering Scientists | The Take Visit and subscribe: SGPP Indonesia | Visinema Pictures

01:00 Chuck Johnson Space on Tucker, https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/1650628080354971652?s=20 03:25 NPR: Tucker Carlson Built An Audience For Conspiracies At Fox. Where Does It Go Now? https://www.npr.org/2023/04/26/1172311796/tucker-carlson-built-an-audience-for-conspiracies-at-fox-where-does-it-go-now 15:00 Tucker speaks https://www.npr.org/2023/04/26/1172311796/tucker-carlson-built-an-audience-for-conspiracies-at-fox-where-does-it-go-now 22:00 Charles Johnson on Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder, https://charlesjohnson.substack.com/p/anti-trust-bisexual-phases-and-divorce 29:00 Chuck Johnson on Tucker, https://substack.com/inbox/post/117040234 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/fox-news-tucker-carlson-secret-dossier-oppo-file-1234723855/ 30:00 Steven Crowder talks about his bisexual phase 31:30 National Enquirer, New York Post and right-wing media as intelligence operations https://sfstandard.com/politics/how-tucker-carlsons-sf-mother-became-a-stand-in-for-everything-he-despises/ 37:00 Russia Hawks and China Hawks | Robert Wright & John Mearsheimer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1pwgUBkgcU 45:00 NYT: Why Kamala Harris Matters So Much in 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/opinion/kamala-harris-joe-biden-2024-reelection.html, 1:06:00 Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130386 https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/04/tucker-carlson-tonight-fox-news-last-episode-pizza/673845/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/25/tucker-carlson-far-right/ How soft power fell out of favor, https://www.ft.com/content/1f88e314-3ee9-4ff9-82ed-4cf42e28b6f5?shareType=nongift https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/25/biden-reelection-2024-campaign-desantis/ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/opinion/tucker-carlson-fox-news-audience.html https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/tucker-carlson-fox-news-departure-reactions https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/tucker-carlson-fox-news-fired https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/tucker-carlson-fox-news-execution https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/04/25/tucker-carlson-fox-cnn-jon-stewart/ https://www.mediaite.com/tv/no-one-has-control-over-tucker-how-fox-news-let-its-biggest-star-go-rogue/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/25/tucker-carlson-fired-rupert-murdoch-fox/?itid=mr_lifestyle_1 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/04/tucker-carlson-and-don-lemons-same-day-demise.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/04/tucker-carlson-president-2024.html https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-world-according-to-tucker-carlson https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/24/tucker-carlson-departure-fox-news-00093559 https://neokrat.blogspot.com/2023/04/kessler-gracefully-bows-out.html Free Speech, Human Rights And The Nation-State, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=147515 The volcano question: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-earth-transformed-review-doom-may-be-delayed-fc140873?mod=article_inline Gerald Ford, https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-ordinary-man-book-review-underestimating-gerald-ford-biography-29cd08b7?mod=article_inline Reading Hitler's Mind, https://www.wsj.com/articles/spying-on-the-reich-book-review-reading-hitlers-mind-6445464b?mod=article_inlineDennis Prager: ‘The Bigger the Government, the Smaller the Citizen', https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=147484

John's upcoming book, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy ... Is the US to blame for Russia's invasion of Ukraine? ... Is Putin less rational than John assumes? ... Why John is a Russia dove and a China hawk ... Does China pose a threat to freedom around the world? ... Why John thinks China's rise threatens American security ... Has globalization made great-power peace possible? ... Should the US defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion? ...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nonzero.substack.com0:00 John's upcoming book, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy2:51 Is the US to blame for Russia's invasion of Ukraine?10:00 Is Putin less rational than John assumes?22:20 Why John is a Russia dove and a China hawk29:50 Does China pose a threat to freedom around the world?36:57 Why John thinks China's rise threatens American security47:58 Has globalization made great-power peace possible?56:14 Should the US defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion?Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago, The Great Delusion). Recorded April 19, 2023.Comments on BhTV: http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66062 Twitter: https://twitter.com/NonzeroPods

John Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, believes the priority of the U.S. in Ukraine should be de-escalation, and that it should shift its focus to China, which he calls the bigger threat.

Van does battle with voices ranging from John Mearsheimer and Robert Kagan to Joseph Nye and Hillary Clinton in this book launch at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy for his book, Pacific Power Paradox: American Statecraft and the Fate of the Asian Peace. Must listen! Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoVm4MrK4aU&t=412sBuy Pacific Power Paradox: https://www.amazon.com/Pacific-Power-Paradox-American-Statecraft/dp/0300257287/ref=sr_1_1?crid=KE1Q04ZJVROB&keywords=pacific+power+paradox&qid=1676789479&sprefix=%2Caps%2C759&sr=8-1Un-Diplomatic Newsletter: https://www.un-diplomatic.comBuy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/undiplomatic 

Empires rise and fall from Greek and Roman times down to the British and the French to the present-day U.S. Some lasted for centuries others mere decades. There are always new powers that want to rule the roost. For many, military power is closely linked to economic well-being. But once the cash register starts emptying overall decline is not far behind. It's clear that in the 21st-century global dominance is a contest between the U.S. and China. Russia is dangerous but is relatively weak, witness its ineptitude in Ukraine. The National Intelligence Council is a top-level U.S. government agency that produces reports projecting global trends. Not surprisingly, it identifies Beijing as a "potential rival" to Washington that "will probably have the largest economy, surpassing that of the U.S. a few years before 2030."

2:17 Why are so many people (including Fred) down on John Mearsheimer? 15:21 Bob: Explaining bad behavior is not the same as justifying it 30:16 How the US eroded international law—and why it matters 44:16 Did US policy make Russia's invasion of Ukraine more likely? 58:06 NATO's role in Ukraine before the invasion 1:21:31 How would the US respond to a China-Mexico military alliance? 1:34:08 Henry Kissinger's peace proposal 1:42:38 Impediments to productive debate on US foreign policy Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Fred Kaplan (Slate, Dark Territory). Recorded January 5, 2023. Comments on BhTV: http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65508Twitter: https://twitter.com/NonzeroPodsFacebook: https://facebook.com/bloggingheads/ Podcasts: https://bloggingheads.tv/subscribe This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nonzero.substack.com/subscribe

Why are so many people (including Fred) down on John Mearsheimer? ... Bob: Explaining bad behavior is not the same as justifying it ... How the US eroded international law - and why it matters ... Did US policy make Russia's invasion of Ukraine more likely? ... NATO's role in Ukraine before the invasion ... How would the US respond to a China-Mexico military alliance? ... Henry Kissinger's peace proposal ... Impediments to productive debate on US foreign policy ...

  Author and researcher David Lifton passed away FREE Borrowable Ebook: Best Evidence by David Lifton Book: Murder from Within: Lyndon Johnson's Plot Against President Kennedy by Fred T. Newcomb: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle Lifton's new book titled Final Charade may be released soon David Lifton tribute videos (6 videos so far: from Vince Palamara's channel) Part B: John Kelin; beginning at 18:25 Book: Praise from a Future Generation by John Kelin: Hardcover, Kindle At Kennedys and King Article: Worse Than I Thought: A Mother In History by John Kelin Oliver Stone's 1991 movie JFK: Director's Cut (Prime) Jean Stafford's book A Mother in History FREE Borrowable Ebook: The Last Investigation by Gaeton Fonzi Article: A Mother In History: The Stafford Archive by John Kelin Jean Stafford attributed made-up quotes to Marguerite Oswald in her book Harold Feldman and Vincent Salandria interviewed Marguerite Oswald in 1964 Article: The Unsinkable Marguerite Oswald by Harold Feldman Part C: Dave Ratcliffe; beginning at 1:08:00 David's website: ratical.org New documentary on Col. Prouty by Jeff Carter and Len Article: Open Letter to Oliver Stone On the Wisdom of Pursuing Nuclear Power by Dave Ratcliffe Video: Oliver Stone interviewed by Lex Fridman Trailer: NUCELAR by Oliver Stone FREE Online Ebook: The Secret Team by Col. L. Fletcher Prouty (1973) FREE Online Ebook: (html version) Understanding Special Operations, And Their Impact on Vietnam War Era 1989 Interview with L. Fletcher Prouty, Colonel USAF (Retired) by David Ratcliffe (1999) Dave's time with John Gofman, MD, PhD FREE Borrowable Ebook: JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters by James Douglass (2008) See Also: segments of the book and various editions Free Borrowable Ebook: A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur Schlesinger (1965) FREE Online Ebook: History Will Not Absolve Us by Martin Schotz (1996) FREE Online Ebook: False Mystery: Essays on the JFK Assassination by Vincent J. Salandria (2017) Pandemic Parallax View: the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer just published third part, now completing a trilogy: Apprehending the False Promise of Biosecurity: Unmasking Usurpation by Fear Merchants, Nov 2020 Conscience and The Nuremberg Code: Informed Consent, Censorship, and Inalienable Rights, Oct 2021 History Will Not Absolve Us: Invoke the Bond With Your Creator and Be Liberated from the United States of Denial, 8 Dec 2022 “It is so important to understand that one of the primary means of mobilizing the American people politically today is to hold them in a state of confusion in which anything can be believed but nothing can be known and the American people are more than willing to be held in this state because to know the truth as opposed to only believe the truth is to face an awful terror and to be no longer able to evade responsibility. It is precisely in moving from belief to knowledge that the citizen moves from irresponsibility to responsibility, from helpless and hopelessness to action with the ultimate aim of being empowered and confident in one's rational powers” —E. Martin “Marty” Schotz Symposium: The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, 2015 Video: Ukraine Fires Missiles DEEP INTO RUSSIA (The Jimmy Dore Show) “It's very easy to study propaganda about World War I or II or anything else. But it's not so easy at all for people to recognize the propaganda in the present day” - Dave Ratcliffe Why The West's Strategy in Ukraine Is So Dangerous by John Mearsheimer, et al Article: The CIA and the Media: 50 Facts the World Needs to Know by James F. Tracy Video: Maajid Nawaz on CBDCs and social credit system (The Joe Rogan Experience) Malthusian theory and survival of the fittest “And we call ourselves the human race” - JFK

00:30 The conventional wisdom regarding Kanye West (mentally ill), Nick Fuentes (he means it) and Milo (opportunist) 08:00 Elliott Blatt joins 09:00 When Elliott picks up his phone, he expects a dopamine rush 10:20 Twitter is so fun these days, are we worthy of these great times? 12:30 Sports provides meaning and connection 13:00 Soccernomics (2022 World Cup Edition): Why European Men and American Women Win and Billionaire Owners Are Destined to Lose, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146297 28:00 I felt awkward at the sports bar for two hours, ordering coffee, learning new social skills 39:00 Matthew Bevan "Matt" Cox (born July 2, 1969) is an American former mortgage broker and admitted mortgage fraudster, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Cox 47:00 True Crime as a substitute for Alt Right drama 48:40 Warning lights comes on in Elliott's car 1:01:00 Near death experiences, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience 1:15:00 Sarcasm vs sincerity 1:19:00 Milo as a demon 1:20:50 The 2022 Holberg Debate w/ John Mearsheimer and Carl Bildt: Ukraine, Russia, China and the West, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aNMOEQ0248 1:26:00 Donny Pauling joins, https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Donny_Pauling 1:27:00 Donny on Christian anti-semitism 1:39:00 Sports bars as means to male connection 2:25:00 Artscroll, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArtScroll 2:33:00 John Mearsheimer met with Viktor Orban, https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/john-mearsheimer-on-putins-ambitions-after-nine-months-of-war 2:49:30 Rodney Martin joins 2:52:00 Rodney on Kanye West, Nick Fuentes, Milo 3:04:40 Christian nationalism 3:07:00 Reparations for black slavery 3:08:20 Alex Jones 3:09:30 FTX collapse and Sam Bankman-Fried 3:12:45 Sports as a tool for social connection https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/1598421835032694785 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormwood_(miniseries) https://www.news.com.au/world/i-see-good-things-about-hitler-hooded-kanye-west-praises-nazis-to-alex-jones/video/3762f3f7c70b608e10d7eb7218280a0f https://www.npr.org/2022/12/02/1140218872/ye-antisemitism-alex-jones-podcast https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/i-see-good-things-about-hitler-hooded-kanye-west-praises-nazis-during-alex-jones-interview/news-story/212fda46cfbfab052849e51d77059184 https://radixjournal.substack.com/p/shady-characters https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/30/milo-yiannopoulos-nick-fuentes-donald-trump-dinner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-27/donald-trump-criticised-after-meeting-kanye-west-and-nick-fuente/101703374 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/26/trump-nick-fuentes-dinner-reaction Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFVD7Xfhn7sJY8LAIQmH8Q/join https://odysee.com/@LukeFordLive, https://lbry.tv/@LukeFord, https://rumble.com/lukeford https://dlive.tv/lukefordlivestreams Listener Call In #: 1-310-997-4596 Superchat: https://entropystream.live/app/lukefordlive Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lukeford/ Soundcloud MP3s: https://soundcloud.com/luke-ford-666431593 Code of Conduct: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=125692 https://www.patreon.com/lukeford http://lukeford.net Email me: lukeisback@gmail.com or DM me on Twitter.com/lukeford Support the show | https://www.streamlabs.com/lukeford, https://patreon.com/lukeford, https://PayPal.Me/lukeisback Facebook: http://facebook.com/lukecford Feel free to clip my videos. It's nice when you link back to the original.

In today's episode, Freddie Sayers interviews John Mearsheimer about the West and how it is screwed according to the realist foreign policy scholar, in an UnHerd exclusive interview titled John Mearsheimer: We're playing Russian roulette.

Freddie Sayers meets political scientist John Mearsheimer, the world-famous proponent of realism in international relations.Read the full article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Denne uken snakker vi om Aksels artikkelserie om koronavirusets opphav, Arbeiderpartiets fall og om John Mearsheimer og realismens forståelse av Ukraina-krigen.

Eric and Eliot welcome Georgetown Professor Emeritus Robert Lieber to discuss his new book, Indispensable Nation. They discuss the nature of the "rules-based" international order, the unique role that U.S. policy plays in sustaining the order, the true disruptive challenges to the order, the nature of political opposition to a robust U.S. foreign policy, political "realism" and its flaws, as well as the increasing challenges for teaching of international relations in the academy. Shield of the Republic is a Bulwark podcast co-sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Email us with your feedback at shieldoftherepublic@gmail.com. Eliot's “Cut the Baloney Realism” or “Stop Talking About Talking" (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/russia-ukraine-negotations-mark-milley/672198/) Robert Lieber's Indispensable Nation (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B5MH82TV/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0) Robert Lieber's Retreat And Its Consequences (https://www.amazon.com/Retreat-its-Consequences-American-Foreign/dp/1316506711) Team America: World Police Hans Blix Scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TEvacFETvM) Andrey Sushentsov and William Wohlforth's "The tragedy of US–Russian relations: NATO centrality and the revisionists' spiral” (https://www.proquest.com/docview/2405756420) John Mearsheimer's Revealing Interview With The New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/john-mearsheimer-on-putins-ambitions-after-nine-months-of-war) “Yes, It's Anti-Semitic:” Eliot's Review of The Israel Lobby by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2006/04/05/yes-its-anti-semitic/e7de5f13-60d5-4567-9090-8d24c8237801/) Robert Lieber's Review of John Mearsheimer's The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (https://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=14655) Eric and David Kramer's “Now Is Not the Time to Negotiate with Putin” (https://www.thebulwark.com/now-is-not-the-time-to-negotiate-with-putin/) Eric and David Kramer's “Don't Go Wobbly on Ukraine" (https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/dont-go-wobbly-on-ukraine/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

DeadYawn comments: "I like that there's honesty without emotional exhibitionism on the Luke Ford show. Also I'm ashamed to admit I find the humour very funny." You might wonder why some people are so right so often. FIFA and Qatar exemplify how much of the world works. It's not always about merit or a level playing field, everything conducted legally and ethically, all for the good of the game. During the World Cup, the officiating won't be perfect. The incentives of the people running things won't be perfectly aligned with what they're running. All sorts of things happen behind closed doors that we won't know about, but if we are emotionally honest with ourselves and something doesn't feel right, it likely means people are lying to you or you have incomplete information. It makes no sense for Qatar to have a world cup, ergo, people are lying. If I research something in the news, and it doesn't make sense, in all likelihood, people are lying. If you are emotionally honest and something doesn't make sense to you, either you are not getting all relevant info or you are being lied to. You know people who are good at spotting lies? People who are honest. Are you bad at noticing when people are lying to you and manipulating you? You are not honest with yourself. If FTX or Bernie Madoff don't make sense, then either you are missing info or you are being lied to. SBF and Abe Fortas got away with a ton of bad things because they were aligned with the Left. SBF got great press because he was aligned with the Left. If he had been aligned with Right, would not have happened. The people who controlled the discourse gave SBF good press. If crypto makes no sense to you, either you are missing info or people are lying to you. I think Crypto bros are lying to you. Theranos made no sense, it was a scam. John Mearsheimer: "It has become clear that the Russians are having difficulties defeating the Ukrainians, in ways that most people didn't anticipate back when we first talked. What also changed is that the war has escalated and the Russians are behaving more ruthlessly towards the Ukrainians than they were initially. That the Russians are now tearing apart the electric grid, which is causing immense human suffering and doing grave economic damage to Ukraine, is evidence of this." https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/john-mearsheimer-on-putins-ambitions-after-nine-months-of-war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharisees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_B._Shapiro https://torahinmotion.org/profile/dr-marc-shapiro https://www.scranton.edu/academics/cas/theology/marcshapiro.shtml A middle ground between Orthodoxy and Reform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoFfpU_Qb9g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Judaism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Judaism http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/crossroads/religious-and-confessional-spaces/andreas-braemer-reform-judaism-positive-historical-school-orthodoxy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zecharias_Frankel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Raphael_Hirsch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Geiger https://torahinmotion.org/tim-torah/the-rise-of-reform-and-the-rabbinic-response-part-7mp3 Italian Jews & the body Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFVD7Xfhn7sJY8LAIQmH8Q/join

John Mearsheimer: "It has become clear that the Russians are having difficulties defeating the Ukrainians, in ways that most people didn't anticipate back when we first talked. What also changed is that the war has escalated and the Russians are behaving more ruthlessly towards the Ukrainians than they were initially. That the Russians are now tearing apart the electric grid, which is causing immense human suffering and doing grave economic damage to Ukraine, is evidence of this." https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/john-mearsheimer-on-putins-ambitions-after-nine-months-of-war Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFVD7Xfhn7sJY8LAIQmH8Q/join https://odysee.com/@LukeFordLive, https://lbry.tv/@LukeFord, https://rumble.com/lukeford https://dlive.tv/lukefordlivestreams Superchat: https://entropystream.live/app/lukefordlive Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lukeford/ Soundcloud MP3s: https://soundcloud.com/luke-ford-666431593 Code of Conduct: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=125692 https://www.patreon.com/lukeford http://lukeford.net Email me: lukeisback@gmail.com or DM me on Twitter.com/lukeford Support the show | https://www.streamlabs.com/lukeford, https://patreon.com/lukeford, https://PayPal.Me/lukeisback Facebook: http://facebook.com/lukecford Feel free to clip my videos. It's nice when you link back to the original.

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The international response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been extraordinary. Rarely have so many nations united so quickly to impose such heavy economic and diplomatic sanctions on Russia. Even Switzerland, a byword for studied neutrality, saw fit to levy sanctions on Putin's regime. Millions of Ukrainians who fled their homes have been welcomed as refugees in Europe. The sympathy for them, and for those who remain under Russian bombardment, has been widespread (with American schoolchildren mailing small toys, crayons, and stuffed animals to comfort Ukrainian kids displaced from their homes). From across the globe, military aid to Ukraine has poured in. Underlying this reaction is an unspoken, in many cases impressionistic, recognition that Russia is the aggressor. But one prominent intellectual, Professor John Mearsheimer, argues that we've got it all wrong. In this episode, we read aloud Elan Journo's article, “Why John Mearsheimer Gets Ukraine Wrong.” In that essay, he argues that Mearsheimer's "realist" take on Russian invasion on Ukraine is an object lesson in the destructiveness of amoralism. Journo's article was originally published in New Ideal on September 14, 2022. Podcast audio:

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The University of Chicago's Paul Poast claims that G. Lowes Dickinson is was the OG "modern" theorist of international relations—and also an "offensive realists." John Mearsheimer invokes Dickinson in Tragedy of Great Power Politics, but notes that Dickinson vocally supported the creation of the League of Nations. Brian Schmidt pays close attention to Dickinson in his work on the history of the discipline. Andreas Osiander also sees Dickinson's account of anarchy as realist, but emphasizes that Dickinson's argument has distinctive "overtones of moralism and voluntarism" and that "Dickinson hope[s] that [anarchy] might be transcended." Jeanne Morefield offers a nuanced appraisal, arguing that we shouldn't read Dickinson through the idealist-realist frame later popularized by E.H. Carr (see also). Unfortunately, we consulted few of these works before recording the episode, so we unwittingly make arguments that previously appeared in some of this scholarship. We apologize, and hope that listeners go out and read the work that we link to above.We discuss whether or not Dickinson is a "realist" (which is probably the least interesting aspect of his work), and examine parts of The European Anarchy, The International Anarchy, The Causes of War, and lots of other stuff. Dan reiterates his view that structural realists are best understood as "liberal pessimists" and Patrick discusses Dickinson's biography and some of his work outside of the area of international relations.

    5:00 - How Matt got into the military and why he was removed from service  12:00 - The importance of great books  16:30 - Matt's journey toward patriotism and the redefining of words  21:00 - The spiritual impulse of nationalism  26:30 - Marxism,  changing language and how it re-shapes culture, particularly the military culture  40:00 - Is Western civilization inherently racist and imperialistic?   46:00 - Where we are headed as a country and Matt's recommendations for living a good, hopeful life   Resources: https://matthewlohmeier.com/Irresistible Revolution https://www.amazon.com/Irresistible-Revolution-Marxisms-Conquest-Unmaking/dp/1737067323Great Books Of the Western World https://www.amazon.com/Great-Books-Western-World-Set/dp/B000NWXN5EThe Tragedy Of Great Power Politics, John Mearsheimer https://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-Great-Power-Politics-Updated/dp/0393349276/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1664671614&refinements=p_27%3AJohn+J.+Mearsheimer&s=books&sr=1-1Live Not By Lies, Rod Dreher https://www.amazon.com/Live-Not-Lies-Christian-Dissidents/dp/B0892SPHYG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1G994JD9XPP8G&keywords=live+not+by+lies+by+rod+dreher&qid=1664676114&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIyLjA1IiwicXNhIjoiMS43OCIsInFzcCI6IjEuOTEifQ%3D%3D&s=books&sprefix=live+not+by+lies%2Cstripbooks%2C169&sr=1-1James Lindsay https://newdiscourses.com/author/jameslindsay/

A few days after the invasion began this past February a guy named Arnaud Bertrand put together an extremely viral Twitter thread that just goes on and on and on about the various diplomats, analysts and academics in the west who have over the years been warning that a dangerous confrontation with Russia was coming because of NATO advancements toward its borders, interventionism in Ukraine, and various other aggressions. It contains examples like John Mearsheimer explicitly warning in 2015 that "the west is leading Ukraine down the primrose path, and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked," and Pat Buchanan warning all the way back in 1999 that "By moving NATO onto Russia's front porch, we have scheduled a twenty-first-century confrontation."  Empire apologists love claiming that the invasion of Ukraine had nothing to do with NATO expansionism (their claims generally based on brazen misrepresentations of what Vladimir Putin has said about Russia's reasons for the war), but that's silly. The US war machine was continuing to taunt the possibility of NATO membership for Ukraine right up until the invasion, a threat it refused to take off the table since placing it there in 2008 despite knowing full well that this threat was an incendiary provocation to Moscow. This is to say nothing of the US empire actively fomenting a violent uprising in 2014 which ousted Kyiv's sitting government and fractured the nation between its more Moscow-loyal populations to the east and the more US/EU-friendly parts of the country. This led to the annexation of Crimea (overwhelmingly supported by the people who live there) and eight years of brutal warfare against Russia-backed separatists in the Donbas. Ukrainian attacks on those separatists are known to have increased exponentially in the days leading up to the invasion, and it has been argued that this is what provoked Putin's final decision to commit to invading (which was a last-minute decision according to US intelligence). The US power alliance could very easily have prevented this war with a few low-cost concessions like enshrining Ukrainian neutrality, rolling back its war machinery from Russia's borders and sincerely pursuing detente with Moscow instead of shredding treaties and ramping up cold war escalations. Hell, it could likely have prevented this war just by protecting President Zelensky from the anti-Moscow far right nationalists who were openly threatening to lynch him if he began honoring the Minsk agreements and pursuing peace with Russia, as he was originally elected to do. Instead it knowingly chose the opposite course: continuing to float the possibility of formal NATO membership for Ukraine while pouring weapons into the nation and making it more and more of a de facto NATO member with closer and closer intimacy with the US war machine, and then either ordering, encouraging or tolerating Ukraine's aggressive assault on Donbas separatists. Reading by Tim Foley.

On this edition of Parallax Views, is the two-state solution in the Israel/Palestine conflict dead? If so what are the possible futures moving forward for Israel/Palestine? Dr. Ian S. Lustick, the Bess W. Heyman Chair in the Political Science Department of the University of Pennsylvania, joins us to discuss why he believes the two-state solution is now an impossibility as argued in his 2019 book Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality. Recently, Dr. Lustick's book was just recently released in a Hebrew-language edition which is what helped precipitate this conversation. Among the topics discussed in this conversation: - The history of the the two-state solution including discussion of Great Britain, the Peel Commission, partition, the United Nations, Zionism, Palestinian Arabs, the 1967 Six-Day War, and the return of partition discussion in the 1970s - Dr. Lustick's support for the two-state solution and his work on that matter starting in the 1970s; how Dr. Lustick's views evolved over time and why he no longer believes the two-state solution is within the realm of possibility - The use of the term "one-state reality" rather than solution in the title of the book; the loss of the two-state solution as a paradigm of thought; the promise and hope that exists within new ways of thinking about Israel/Palestine - The question of the Israel lobby (specifically AIPAC) and U.S. foreign policy; John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's critique of the lobby as related to U.S. national interests and the ways in which Dr. Lustick's analysis is both in way similar to and different to Mearsheimer and Walt's analysis - The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement - Revisionist Zionism, Likud Party founder and Israel's sixth Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Zionist thinker Vladimir "Ze'ev" Jabotinsky, and the "Iron Wall" strategy - Secret negotiations, sabotaging of peace processes, and the failure of Oslo Accords - Gaza and the West Bank - President Joe Biden's comments on Israel/Palestine early on in his White House tenure and why Dr. Lustick believes they are significant - The nature of political change, the evolution of the Democratic Party from supporting Jim Crow to being the party of the first black President Barack, and the abandonment of the "Demographic" argument in regards to Israel/Palestine - What does Dr. Lustick have to say about, for example, Gazans than can't wait for decades long changes through a long protracted struggle? - The theme of unintended consequences in Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality - Commenting on the human rights-centric approach to Israel/Palestine as advocated by Palestinian human rights attorney Zaha Hassan and others - Peter Beinart and the changing of the guard on the issue of Israel/Palestine and the two-state solution - And much, much more!

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has triggered the most dangerous international conflict in decades with ominous implications. It has already resulted in much death, destruction and displacement in Ukraine. A disruption in food supplies may lead to famine in West Asia, Latin America and Africa. And there is a possibility of the war escalating into something unthinkable. Understanding the root causes of the crisis is essential if we are to prevent it from getting worse and to find a way to bring it to a close. What role have the U.S. and NATO played historically and currently in Ukraine? What might a peace settlement look like?

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In Episode 248 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with professors of international relations John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. Professor Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and the author of multiple books including “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics,” “Why Leaders Lie,” and “The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities.” Professor Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is also the author of several books including “Revolution and War,” “Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy,” and most recently “The Hell of Good Intentions.” They both have appeared separately on the podcast before: professor Walt for a conversation on the decline of US primacy and professor Mearsheimer on the power of nationalism in international affairs. They are also both prominent members of the so-called “realist school” and their views have often run counter to the prevailing orthodoxy in Washington, which one could broadly characterize as interventionist. John Mearsheimer especially has gained attention for his views on Ukraine, which went viral after the recent Russian invasion. Just one of his videos on YouTube alone has been seen over 26 million times. Demetri asks him about that experience, why he thinks his views have resonated so strongly with the public, and if there's a connection between peoples' views on Ukraine and their positions on the larger culture wars that seem to be dividing so many of us in Western societies today. Of course, the conversation veers well beyond Ukraine, which is just the touching off point for a much larger discussion about the future of great power competition, the endurance of the alliance between Russia and China, America's pivot to Asia, and how Russia's invasion of Ukraine could actually make that easier, and what should the goals of American foreign policy be. You can access the full episode, transcript, and intelligence report to this conversation by going directly to the episode page at HiddenForces.io and clicking on "premium extras." All subscribers gain access to our premium feed, which can be easily added to your favorite podcast application. If you enjoyed listening to today's episode of Hidden Forces you can help support the show by doing the following: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | YouTube | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | CastBox | RSS Feed Write us a review on Apple Podcasts & Spotify Subscribe to our mailing list at https://hiddenforces.io/newsletter/ Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas Editor & Engineer: Stylianos Nicolaou Subscribe & Support the Podcast at https://hiddenforces.io Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @hiddenforcespod Follow Demetri on Twitter at @Kofinas Episode Recorded on 05/10/2022

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By any measure, the Russian invasion of Ukraine represents a profound security risk for the world. It raises fundamental issues about the basic principles that underwrite the current international order and it threatens the specter of an entrenched, high-risk Great Power conflict. How is this fast-evolving crisis best addressed? Does it demand a resolute and relentless push by the West to punish, isolate and degrade Putin's Russia economically, politically and militarily? Or is a solution to be found in acknowledging Russia's security needs and finding ways to mutually de-escalate the war, sooner not later? Which of these different strategies stand the best chance of success? And how ultimately is this conflict best resolved? Arguing in favour of the resolution are John Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Walt, the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. Arguing against the resolution are The Hon. Radosław Sikorski, member of the European Parliament and former defence minister of Poland, and Michael McFaul, who served as the US ambassador to Russia from 2012-2014. QUOTES: JOHN MEARSHEIMER: "We in effect poked the Russian bear in the eye and then we left Ukraine defenceless. We have led the Ukrainians down the primrose path." STEPHEN WALT: "If you want to bring this to an end, as quickly as possible, you have to start by recognizing Russia's security interests, the reasons they went to war." RADEK SIKORSKI: "This is not a war about NATO membership, which is a hypothetical possibility. This is the last gasp of Russian imperialism." MICHAEL MCFAUL :"The US, NATO and the West have recognized Russia's security interests for three decades. Yet, that did not prevent Putin from invading Ukraine."   The host of the Munk Debates is Rudyard Griffiths - @rudyardg.   Tweet your comments about this episode to @munkdebate or comment on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/munkdebates/ To sign up for a weekly email reminder for this podcast, send an email to podcast@munkdebates.com.   To support civil and substantive debate on the big questions of the day, consider becoming a Munk Member at https://munkdebates.com/membership Members receive access to our 10+ year library of great debates in HD video, a free Munk Debates book, newsletter and ticketing privileges at our live events.This podcast is a project of the Munk Debates, a Canadian charitable organization dedicated to fostering civil and substantive public dialogue - https://munkdebates.com/ Senior Producer: Ricki Gurwitz Editor: Adam Karch  

Who fundamentally is to blame for the war in Ukraine? John Mearsheimer, a professor at University of Chicago, insists the principal blame lies not with Putin, but with the West, especially the U.S. This astonishing conclusion flows from Mearsheimer's championing of a theory called “Realism” in international relations. Join Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos for an analysis of the philosophic assumptions and consequences of Mearsheimer's brand of “realism.” Podcast audio:

In Episode 248 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with professors of international relations John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. Professor Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and the author of multiple books including “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics,” “Why Leaders Lie,” and “The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities.” Professor Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is also the author of several books including “Revolution and War,” “Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy,” and most recently “The Hell of Good Intentions.” They both have appeared separately on the podcast before: professor Walt for a conversation on the decline of US primacy and professor Mearsheimer on the power of nationalism in international affairs. They are also both prominent members of the so-called “realist school” and their views have often run counter to the prevailing orthodoxy in Washington, which one could broadly characterize as interventionist. John Mearsheimer especially has caught flak for his views on Ukraine, which went viral after the recent Russian invasion. Just one of his videos on YouTube alone has been seen over 26 million times. Demetri asks him about that experience, why he thinks his views have resonated so strongly with the public, and if there's a connection between peoples' views on Ukraine and their positions on the larger culture wars that seem to be dividing so many of us in Western societies today. Of course, the conversation veers well beyond Ukraine, which is just the touching off point for a much larger discussion about the future of great power competition, the endurance of the alliance between Russia and China, America's pivot to Asia and how Russia's invasion of Ukraine could actually make that easier, and what should the goals of American foreign policy be. You can access the full episode, transcript, and intelligence report to this conversation by going directly to the episode page at HiddenForces.io and clicking on "premium extras." All subscribers gain access to our premium feed, which can be easily added to your favorite podcast application. If you enjoyed listening to today's episode of Hidden Forces you can help support the show by doing the following: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | YouTube | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | CastBox | RSS Feed Write us a review on Apple Podcasts & Spotify Subscribe to our mailing list at https://hiddenforces.io/newsletter/ Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas Editor & Engineer: Stylianos Nicolaou Subscribe & Support the Podcast at https://hiddenforces.io Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @hiddenforcespod Follow Demetri on Twitter at @Kofinas Episode Recorded on 05/10/2022

Mearsheimer argues that liberal hegemony — the foreign policy pursued by the United States since the Cold War ended — is doomed to fail. It would be better, he says, for America to practice restraint in the foreign policy sphere based on a sound understanding of how nationalism and realism constrain great powers. We also discuss Ukraine and both agree that American solidiers do not belong in the conflict.

Katrina vanden Heuvel is the editorial director and publisher of The Nation magazine, as well as a columnist for the Washington Post. She is also the president of the American Committee For U.S.-Russia Accord and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Katrina has been studying, working in, and writing about Russia for decades. In columns leading up to the invasion of Ukraine, Katrina was warning that failures of diplomacy were leading toward disaster. In this conversation, we discuss what she believes those failures were. Katrina is no defender of Putin's regime, but she does believe that opportunities were missed to de-escalate the crisis, and that Western policy choices stretching back to the 1990s have made Russia's present aggression more likely. We also discuss the terrifying threat of nuclear weapons and the prospects for getting rid of them, and why it's critical to avoid further militarizing the world. Katrina's writings on Russia are both deeply-informed and uncompromisingly progressive, and she shows how those of us on the left can combine solidarity with the victims of Putin's war with strong critiques of American foreign policy. Katrina's recent columns on Russia and Ukraine:What A Sensible Ukraine Policy Would Look Like (Jan. 4, Washington Post)Stop The Stumble Toward War With Russia (Jan. 18, Washington Post)The Exist From The Ukraine Crisis That's Hiding In Plain Sight (Feb. 1, Washington Post)A Path Out of the Ukraine Crisis (Feb. 15, Washington Post)Putin's Invasion (Feb. 24, The Nation)We Must End The War on Ukraine—and Put an End To Perpetual Wars (March 1, Washington Post)War and Peace in Ukraine (March 3, The Nation)Some of the people and writings referred to in the conversation:An excellent Behind the News interview with Anatol Lieven, whose work Katrina cites, can be read here.Stephen F. Cohen's book War With Russia? can be bought here.Voices of Glasnost can be bought here.John Mearsheimer's 2015 prediction that Ukraine would get "wrecked" as a result of the West leading it down the "primrose path" is here. His article expanding on his thesis is here.An article by Jack F. Matlock, the last U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on how NATO expansion worsened tensions with Russia, can be found here.Patrick Cockburn's column on why Putin's war is a disastrous blunder is here. The Current Affairs conversation with him is here.Nathan's article on prospects for World War III is here."There's a history to everything and the history right now is very hard to speak about, as blood flows, with images of bombardment and barbarism. But I think history will be important for what emerges, and what is possible to mediate and lead to a cease-fire."  — Katrina vanden Heuvel      

As we enter the fourth week of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, many of the possible pathways this conflict could take are terrifying. A military quagmire that leads to protracted death and suffering. A Russian takeover of Kyiv and installation of a puppet government. An accidental strike on Polish or Romanian territory that draws America and the rest of NATO into war. Or, perhaps worst of all, a series of escalations that culminates in nuclear exchange.But one possibility carries a glimmer of hope. This week, Ukrainian and Russian negotiators began talks on a tentative peace plan — one that would involve Ukraine abandoning its attempts to join NATO and promising not to host foreign military bases or weaponry, in exchange for Western security guarantees and a Russian troop withdrawal. We're still far from any kind of definitive settlement — and there are legitimate concerns over whether Putin would accept any kind of deal at this point — but it's a start.Emma Ashford is a senior fellow with the New American Engagement Initiative at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, and a member of the school of foreign policy thinking known as “realism.” Realists view international relations as a contest between states for power and security; they tend to focus less on the psychologies and ideologies of individual leaders and more on the strategic self-interest of the parties involved. It's an imperfect framework but a useful one — especially when it comes to analyzing what it would take to achieve a successful negotiation or settlement.So I invited Ashford on the show to help me think through the different trajectories the conflict could take — and what the West can do to make de-escalation more likely. We also discuss John Mearsheimer's argument that the West's effort to expand NATO bears responsibility for Putin's invasion, why Ashford isn't particularly worried about the possibility of Russian cyberattacks on the West, how Western sanctions blur the line between war and peace, whether NATO's efforts to supply Ukraine with weapons might backfire, why sanctions might not hurt Russian elites as much as Western leaders hope and how this conflict is changing the geopolitical calculus of countries like Germany, China and India.Book recommendations:The Economic Weapon by Nicholas MulderNot One Inch by M.E. SarotteThe Sleepwalkers by Christopher ClarkThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Michelle Harris, Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Jeff Geld; audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Our executive producer is Irene Noguchi. Special thanks to Kristin Lin and Kristina Samulewski.

It's impossible to understand the destruction and death that Vladimir Putin is unleashing in Ukraine without understanding his most basic conviction: that the breakup of the Soviet empire was a catastrophe from which Russia has yet to recover. Some experts, including John Mearsheimer, have blamed NATO expansion for the invasion of Ukraine, arguing that it has provoked Vladimir Putin to defend his sphere of influence. Stephen Kotkin, a professor of history and international affairs at Princeton University, and a research scholar at the Hoover Institution, respectfully disagrees. Putin's aggression is “not some kind of deviation from the historical pattern,” he tells David Remnick. Russia in the nineteenth century looked much as it does today, he says. “It had an autocrat. It had repression. It had militarism. It had suspicion of foreigners and the West.” Kotkin describes how and why the Putin regime has evolved toward despotism, and he speculates that the strategic blunders in invading Ukraine likely resulted from the biases of authoritarian rulers like Putin, and the lack of good information available to them. Kotkin is the author of an authoritative biography of Joseph Stalin, two volumes of which have been published; a third is in the making.

It's impossible to understand the destruction and death that Vladimir Putin is unleashing in Ukraine without understanding his most basic conviction: that the breakup of the Soviet empire was a catastrophe from which Russia has yet to recover. Some experts, including John Mearsheimer, have blamed NATO expansion for the invasion of Ukraine, arguing that it has provoked Vladimir Putin to defend his sphere of influence. Stephen Kotkin, a professor of history and international affairs at Princeton University, and a research scholar at the Hoover Institution, respectfully disagrees. Putin's aggression is “not some kind of deviation from the historical pattern,” he tells David Remnick. Russia in the nineteenth century looked much as it does today, he says. “It had an autocrat. It had repression. It had militarism. It had suspicion of foreigners and the West.” Kotkin describes how and why the Putin regime has evolved toward despotism, and he speculates that the strategic blunders in invading Ukraine likely resulted from the biases of authoritarian rulers like Putin, and the lack of good information available to them. Kotkin is the author of an authoritative biography of Joseph Stalin, two volumes of which have been published; a third is in the making.

It's impossible to understand the destruction and death that Vladimir Putin is unleashing in Ukraine without understanding his most basic conviction: that the breakup of the Soviet empire was a catastrophe from which Russia has yet to recover. Some experts, including John Mearsheimer, have blamed NATO expansion for the invasion of Ukraine, arguing that it has provoked Vladimir Putin to defend his sphere of influence. Stephen Kotkin, a professor of history and international affairs at Princeton University, and a research scholar at the Hoover Institution, respectfully disagrees. Putin's aggression is “not some kind of deviation from the historical pattern,” he tells David Remnick. Russia in the nineteenth century looked much as it does today, he says. “It had an autocrat. It had repression. It had militarism. It had suspicion of foreigners and the West.” Kotkin describes how and why the Putin regime has evolved toward despotism, and he speculates that the strategic blunders in invading Ukraine likely resulted from the biases of authoritarian rulers like Putin, and the lack of good information available to them. Kotkin is the author of an authoritative biography of Joseph Stalin, two volumes of which have been published; a third is in the making.

https://youtu.be/kxreeqdn9iE The United States aids Ukraine and her people, so that we can fight Russia over there, and we don't have to fight Russia here. - Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA), January 2020 [0:00] - Adam Schiff, Congressman from California [0:08] - CATO's Ted Galen Carpenter [10:30] - John Mearsheimer, American political scientist, 2015 Odysee BitChute Minds Archive Flote Spotify

In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil discuss the American response to the escalating war between Russia and Ukraine. Support Past Present on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pastpresentpodcast Here are some links and references mentioned during this week's show:  Russia has invaded Ukraine as the world watches. Natalia referred to philosopher Jason Stanley's article in TIME about denazification and this New Yorker interview with political scientist John Mearsheimer. Neil cited this POLITICO interview with Fiona Hill, and Niki recommended M.E. Sarotte's book Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Stalemate.   In our regular closing feature, What's Making History: Natalia recommended the second season of the Netflix series, Dirty John. Neil discussed the legacy of college basketball coaching legend “Coach K.” Niki shared about historian Lily Geismer's new book, Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality.