@@Kalagi545-tg7ek - eh, Zionism is just a way to build support for the colonial project. Colonizers will make up any BS possible to justify a land grab. If people wanted to return to the holy land they would have just done it. slowly build a majority while making friends. Instead they used the British to disarm and suppress the indigenous Palestinian population while the zionists built up their own forces to seize the land. Zionism is the circus, its the song and the dance used to drum up support. What the USA spreads is colonialism like the British before them, using the British playbook too.
John has advocating to contain China for decades, yet Chinese are interested in inviting him as a guest in interviews and exchanges while in Washington his view is never treasured. The comparison is so interesting and shows how closed-minded US politics has become.
@@Kimmimaro86 there is literally a clip of him saying that the US must contain China because if China have the GDP per capita of South Korea or Hong Kong, it will be a super power that's more than twice as strong as the US.
This is probably the best interview I've seen Dr Miersheimer do, and I think that's has a lot to do with the questions asked of him. I typically see him interviewed by Western journalists, so they typically ask him the same types of questions. Hearing this gentleman's questions from an Eastern perspective really helped bring out more information. Bravo.
Ha ha. Meershimmer is so out of touch with reality. He says Nothing new here and " spins" his narrative but omuts anything he dies not like and does not fit his "NARRATIVE" A FALSE " NARRATIVE"!!
USA doesn't have Elections .. it has Cosplay Festivals where the folks vote for their favourite costumes. Then everyone goes home and takes off their costumes and everything continues as before.
LOL it is public knowledge that Prof M is an anti China war hawk. Prof M wished that U$ allied with Russia against China, that was his regret!! Besides he is just like most Americans, he believed in the "manifest destiny".
The US political system is the most corrupt in the world? You need to "raise" tons of money in the first place to be considered. It goes on, the legal system is against anyone without money, the advertising fees are enormous........
It's worse than that. The US political system "solved" corruption by making it legal. It's even more insidious than illegal corruption because people just take it as an unavoidable fact of life rather than something to be fixed. @jamesmurphy9426 made the perfect analogy. The US is very much like the Roman Republic: plutocracy masquerading as democracy. And with a rapidly crumbling empire to boot.
Great questions and Mearsheimer at his very best. An absolute pleasure to watch and gain so much clarity and insight. Well done Shanghai Eye! (From Australia)
I've always been a fan of Prof. Mearsheimer, but I am very impressed with the gentleman interviewing him. I would challenge Prof. Mearsheimer on the use of the term containment. The US does not simply contain a potential adversary they try to destroy them.
The "gentleman interviewing him" is a Taiwanese journalist based in the US and works for a broadcasting station from mainland China . However, his reports are mainly in the Chinese language .
Yes, Ching-Yi Chang is an excellent reporter. He started with an interviewee who had a wealth of insight, learned everything about it, figured out the critical issues, and wrote a list of questions to get those insights. I've seen dozens of interviews with John Mearsheimer, but Chang's interview brought out the structure of American politics in a way that I hadn't understood before. I'm disappointed to see that his main work is in Chinese, a language I never mastered.
@@norman_5623 I think you are right. Too many interviewers interrupt their guests and prevent them from developing their ideas. It takes a strong man to bring out the best of people. The events of our world did not occur in months or years but over decades. I don't speak Chinese either, so I hope he chooses to do more English language reports.
Always a pleasure to hear Professor Mearsheimer's views. He logically connect the dots to our international situation rather than insult us with bogeyman hype. Thank you.
I love how it says that the media outlet is owned by the Chinese government at the top of the video as if it's a health warning! Maybe information from the BBC should have the same?
@@jerkersoderlind7205 I don't think it matters who owns the media, but rather the quality of interviews and reports in terms of how balanced they are. It is also true there aren't any balanced western media any more almost 99.9% are mostly lies. U$ just passed a bill HR 1517 worth $1.6B up from $350m, for spreading anti China propaganda!
@@krunkle5136 i’d say no he is right in terms of immigration. The United States is a nation of immigrants. It’s not a white only state if you want something like that you have to probably go to Europe somewhere to look for some kind of society even in Europe that’s changing at the end of the day we humans are all the same species we can breed we are the most intelligent of mankind were able to do something. This whole notion of dividing us based off of religion. Ethnicity is just not gonna work anymore that’s one of the reasons that the right wing is ultimately terminal decline
@@sidp5381 we're not all the same. I don't mean that there's either a superior way over another, but we adapt and evolve to geography, and generally people operate more smoothly when they live in societies of similar people that all share a deep ancestry with the land they inhabit. Homogeneity works, and to a degree so does some xenophobia. Without this, you get the internally divided countries like Brazil where there's underclasses of distinct people that never assimilate fully and develop their own rebellion, which makes functioning on a complete level impossible. It's fine though to have a small germ of outsider influence, but in general, society needs to be filled with loyal committed people, similar in nature to the various east Asian cultures. The neoliberal order is transient and weak, and for better or worse, the grip that world war ii has on the western psyche is weakening. I say this though agreeing with you that America is an exception. America is destined to be a place where the world's malcontents can find an opportunity in a still vast land.
I would love to see the end to the Ukraine war and improved relations with Russia. It’s definitely possible but we have to accept our responsibility in the war and that will never happen.
America not courting Russia to its side as a bulwark against China will go down as the biggest geopolitical mistake in its history, next to losing China to Mao in 1949. Absolute hubris led to this when it didn't have to.
That would require admitting we made a mistake. That would require an apology to the American People and then to wait for their forgiveness. They do not have the humility to do the first nor the patience and faith for the second. John is incorrect about people not wanting or liking Trump. We the People live Trump. You've been living in Hyde Park too long, John with all due respect.
Yes. America has a big and powerful military , but has never won any war since 1945. Defeated in Vietnam, Korea,Cuba, Afghanistan, Iraq , Syria, Somalia.
It has a very expensive military might. Powerful, I am not sure about that. Look at the countries you listed, its a clear proof USA has not been tested in a real war with an enemy of high magnitude, like Russia or China.
The US has never lost a war of survival. The horrific wars you mentioned achieved various strategic aims in part along with losses. The Korean war was a UN force led by the US that was fought to a stalemate. Russia and China would fare no better. In fact they didn't. Russia lost in Afghanistan and the US was predominantly fighting China in Korea.
Yes but why they do it, because of military industrial complex who are the real bosses and do not have any sense of humanity but domination, control and colonization.
God bless you professor John..You and Jeff Sacks will enjoy a special place in heaven for always being honest and speaking the truth. You stand for fairness and justice. It's so refreshing to hear how you speak unbiasedly about the situation in Ukraine and Palestine.
If he was brilliant he wouldn't talk about what is happening in a war zone with so much confidence. Military intelligence knows whats going on there, not a random civilian. At most what we get are choice videos each side releases to show how good they are doing. You think people in Berlin or Moscow knew what was happening on the eastern front in late 1941? They found out years later.
You.... you really don't know anything about China do you? They have a 300% debt to GDP ratio... Their national debt is so vast it makes Greece look fiscally sound. Now this doesn't mean that China's a bad country or whatever, it's just... well it's become the manufacturer of the world through debt investing in getting more low productivity manufacturing going. The debt spending on it and keeping their people's social services low has been what makes it competitive. However now that cheap labor is no longer an option in China they are looking back and realizing that maaaaybe... just maybe they should have spent more money on productivity improvements instead of fixating quite so much on full employment because now they can't borrow much more to do it. They have their own issues to resolve in the 21st century, the US has different ones.
@@henrylicious What they really need to import is the stuff to make the food. They use a lot lot lot of inputs to make the same volume of food as the USA. One of the things that China is not blessed with is geography that favors agriculture and they paved over a lot of good geography to make cities.
I appreciate John Mearsheimer's work, and I follow his segments on Judge Napolitano and elsewhere closely. However, I still find myself skeptical of the reasoning behind the argument that the United States MUST contain China. The argument seems flimsy, and I remain unconvinced about the inevitability of great power conflict. Cooperation can be pursued if done so with purpose and earnestness. The US is interested in hegemony, not cooperation. For China, it's the opposite. The US is driven by actors with bad intentions.
Self proclaimed as realist, John says US must contain China because of power politics. I totally disagree because of 2 reasons: 1) No reality including power politics is more ultimate than this reality : that if we don’t respect and love each other, nobody (including Americans) could survive with lethal weapons eg nuclear weapons. There is no such thing as A country MUST contain B country unless A country wants to be decimated as well. What’s is the point of A gaining to be the hegemonic power and yet decimated as B and all other countries at the same time. Only the dumb and stupidest would do this . Can anyone challenge this ultimate reality? I profess myself as ultimate realist . 2) John forgets there is a huge gap between human and other animals or what we call the lower animals. Science has yet to prove that this gap is bridgeable . Humans have proven to be much wiser and much more rational than other animals due to their God given ability to reflect and change course to do good and to avoid harm, if not for survival of their own skins. John’s reality is based on the belief that humans beings are just same as lower animals whose actions are only dictated by animal instincts , the survival of the fittest. But history and human progress in the past thousands years have already proved john’s reducing human beings to just lower animals wrong.
It’s disconcerting to me to hear that Kamala Harris is wildly unpopular, yet she has the support of Bernie Sanders, AOC, Joe Manchin, and even Darth Vader himself, Dick Cheney. It’s true that the political system is broken, but the reason is the obscene amount of money involved and the fact that it has become an entertainment rather than a debate about policy.
When you exist on credit money that you can create at your own discretion any time, you lose touch with reality. It's like children of very reach parents who "made themselves". Spoilt, overbearing and destined to painfully realize their attitude wrong when it's too late.
Why is it "disconcerting"? It's obvious and expected that she has the support of losers like Sanders (who betrayed his supporters), warmongers like Cheney, and sell-outs like AOC.
What I really respect about Mr. Mearsheimer is that he truly tells the truth, at least how he views it. He is not politically aligned or overtly biased in his analysis. Few people like him now on the main stage unfortunately.
His guiding principle is that every enemy of the west always tells the truth despite the facts and the only way to deal with them is to fully appease their demands. It's bizarre he is viewed as having any credibility.
Well rightwing is too much of snowflake losers to allow anyone that diagrees with their lack of philosophy to thrive. They want artificial consensus, which is not how you run a company or a country. Not a great one, anyhow. Ah well. Such is life.
Actually US, Russia and China should be friends. We can compete each other in term of economy. But not to try to destroy each other. Imagine if we 3 countries become friends, will be the most powerful on this earth.
That's not how US imperialism works, that's not how enslavement works. If you want to be the boss you can't be an equal with other countries like Russia and China.
The U.S. dollar/economy literally relies on world hegemony. China on the other hand is trying to catch up in terms of everything the U.S. is dominating at in order for their citizens to have better living standard. I hate to say it look more and more like a zero-sum game at the end. The winner takes it all.
I disagree with Miersheimer that China will translate most of its economic might to military might. Americans view the world, especially China, through American lenses. China is not interested in becoming the sole superpower, and maintaining a unipolar world, with itself as the single pole. China recognizes the reality that there will be a multipolar world, and welcomes it. Here are some evidence for what I say. Unlike the US, China has only 1 or 2 military bases around the world. Its military is basically configured to fight the US in East Asia. It has only a few hundred nuclear weapons, even though it can afford thousands. Its biggest projects (the Belt And Road, gigantic dams, a massive high speed rail network, the push to green energy, lifting 800 million people out of abject poverty, etc.) are civilian projects. China, having been poor for so long, wants to prosper, and it has the common sense to know that war, let alone perpetual war, is not the way to prosperity. Americans, being parochial, have difficulty seeing other people's points of view.
@@katong1953 It's realist outlook nothing to do with politics or religion, a strong economy will try to raise it's military and political influence, just like a strong military will try to increase it's political and economical interests it just goes hand in hand unless the state is not functioning correctly which'll insure it's demise
Agreed. If you listen to him very very carefully, he is a white supremacist, not very different from Jordan Peterson. Peterson is stupid while this man is very smart. He is actually trying his best to wake his nation up, he is not interested in a multipolar world. He loves Russia because because Russians are European.@@katong1953
@@katong1953 Thank you for the cultural insight. Miersheimer is not worried that China will act irrationally (total war economy conversion). Miersheimer is worried that after China exceeds military production parity with the United States (many claim it already has) that it will trigger an irrational response from whatever foreign policy entity is driving escalation with russia, china, and iran. After seeing the carnage in Ukraine the Chinese people must realize that the same weapons from the same companies are staring them down right across the strait.
This has been the problem of white supremacy for centuries seing the world with their myopic ates. This has caused unnecessary pain to the world. There are enough resources in the world if greedy and immense determination to keep the rest of the world poor so that they could keep their domination. I'm an African and understand CHINA. The world is too complicated to pretend that one single Country has the power og enough knowledge to solve their problems. @katong1953
🇬🇧 Professer Mearshiemer is superb at articulating complex multipolar issues to understandable points and perspectives. It makes it so easy to believe his every utterance. Big fan.
He delivers brilliantly perceptive insights in language so clear that they seem obvious -- the temptation is to think, "I knew that," when you didn't at all.
1. Campaign reform, get big money out! 2. Voter identification and voting day needs to be a national holiday. 3. Senators and congressmen and women should not be able to trade stocks while serving!
Let's also reform Healthcare by putting gov't officials on the SAME program as the population at large. They currently have a Cadillac of Healthcare system just for them.
All that would definitely be a step in the right direction, and don’t forget radical tax reform: start by bringing back the “New Deal” corporate tax rates instituted by FDR.
Will not happen, America's success is build around the American dream: "Get rich fast" no matter how, no matter anything, just "Get rich fast", money run the system, money runs the legal system too, so not much chance to change the law/rules about elections. So only bad things can change the American system like a civil war, and nobody really want that.
It is just a pleasure to listen to to this formidable professor about the foreign politic of US. The yung Chinese journalist ask very important questions , a lot of civility it is refreshing thanks to both of you
Great interview, a credit to the interviewer. I was fascinated by the deep exploration of the power relations between and within these states. John Mearsheimer is a great guest who was talking in a systematic way about the whole. Different and better than many interviews we see in the West. New subscriber.
Thank you very much for asking these questions to an expert like John. You really allowed me to understand what is going on in my own country much moreb
Could not have agreed more. The core of Realism is the principle of not allowing rise of any peer competitors, which is China now. I am sure he is not happy that the US is not 100% focusing on suppressing China and instead wasting time and efforts in the Middle East and Ukraine….
@@TippityTapTap47 There's a difference between 'should' and 'would'. Read his arguments carefully. He's advocating that the US should contain China first, and he's disappointed at the current US admin prioritizing Russia over China. He's an imperialist through and through.
I definitely have heard Mearsheimer presenting US imperialistic behaviours towards Australia in Australian Press Club. I think he must have changed his mind about all this US Imperialism at some point. Or it's not as strong or obvious. It's funny to me how he is now considered an outspoken critic of that Imperialism.
@@simplica1It blows my mind that ppl still think he's rational just because he openly admits to US global supremacy. Go after China... would be going after the rest of the world. There's nothing rational about it. The man is living in the cold war era and can't get his head out of his own ass. Why do so many ppl fall it?
You have done an excellent interview with the most qualified, fairest, astute statesman existing in the US ! I highly respect John Mearsheimer and his views/analysis ....I am with him, and his truth telling! I agree with everything he reveals, believes !
Thanks to the channel for interviewing Professor Mearsheimer, always a pleasure to hear from him, even though I disagree with his views on containing China (if true), and thanks to the guest for the interview! It would have been nice if the video had been given time stamps for easier viewing.
This was a great, in depth interview. One of the best I've seen in quite some time. IMO, John is a national treasure. He has the intellect, knowledge, wisdom and statesmanship that I think anyone seeking higher office in our country should have.
2:34 - It’s not “hard to say”, it’s really quite simple: in the Western liberal democracies, and in the United States in particular, power has now fully shifted away from the public sphere and into the private sector; the Ship of State is on autopilot: it’s at the corporate boardrooms, not the legislative bodies, that the big decisions are being made...it’s the billionaire oligarchs, not the statesmen, that really run the show. America has the best political system that money can buy. 🗽🇺🇸
Thank you on this interview,what a great mind professor Mirshemier is. I think he is only public person that i can listen for two hours and not miss the word!
So, if China's military might exceeds that of the US, and they obtained that might without wars and military bases around the world. What would the US do?
The answer to your question lies at the heart of what makes great power politics so tragic. As China grows more powerful and develops interests and relations all over the world, other world powers (the minor ones and the great ones) will, without a doubt, seek to contain and recede it. To defend its interests, China will have to use its newly acquired military might to deter any threats. Within short few decades, China (and any alliance it builds) will find itself precisely where the US and NATO currently are. Until we solve many of the fundamental problems of the human race, this will be an inescapable reality
The Chinese military can't "exceed the US" if it has "no military bases around the world." That's a contradictory question. Without military bases around the world, the most China could hope to do is outclass the US in the South/East China Seas, making it impossible for the US to "defend" Taiwan (I put "defend" in quotes, because I don't think US military intervention turns out good for anyone). But the security alliances are practically to the point that China invading Taiwan could trigger regional war, which no one wants. So basically it's just a build-up of forces that spell potential mutual destruction in the region if ever they get tested. This is why, for example, the Europeans and Americans are largely not fighting the Russians directly in Ukraine: mutual destruction. But I agree with the other comment that we need to, as a species, find a way out of this cycle of "great power" clashes.
@@Flaakk yes, and what are the fundamental problems? I just saw an interview with Danny Haifong and professor Zhang Weiwei, he has an optional perspective fused with Chinas civilizational statehood…
If it becomes evident that they can wipe out any threat anywhere in the world, then nobody is going to start anything with them cause countries would know they can't win.
Pragmatic and objective analysis at every level. Not sure I necessarily agree with all his conclusions, anymore than I agreed with Kissinger's, but his expertise is manifestly outstanding.
Excellent interview & not JUST because it was a job well done but also because Prof. Mearsheimer is a 😍 of mine. I now follow him, Sachs & Finkelstein everywhere
Very good questions from the host and intelligent answers from the guest John Mearsheimer. Impressive program today. This was a farther reaching discussion than usually happens on American TV.
This is a great interview. The interviewer is concise and to the point, and the interviewee is clear-minded, knowledgable, and straightforward. Just curious why smart people work in academic circles not in the administration.
I am from India and have been following geopolitics for a while now.. I'm a great fan of Sir Mearshiemer. His articulation is so perfect. I just admire his knowledge and analysis of things how they are instead what is shown to us in unbaised way.. Pure facts articulated in impressive manner. Thank you sir for all you hard work and efforts you put tin throughout your whole life understing things as they are.. ❤❤
LOL it is public knowledge that Prof M is an anti China war hawk. Prof M wished that U$ allied with Russia against China, that was his regret!! Besides he is just like most Americans, he believed in the "manifest destiny".
That's known as "asymmetric information", which was the subject of the 2001 Nobel prize in economics, to George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz. The Nobel prize web site is a good place to get a good introduction to the subject for the general public or professional economists. People on the left say that it benefits those in power to keep voters ignorant, and have them vote on irrelevant factors such as identity politics or social issues, rather than on policies of health care, education, housing, etc. I think Mearsheimer would agree, which is why he gives a lot of time to alternative media like the GrayZone.
Mearsheimer is being his usual excellence. The interviewer shows the culture bias and misunderstandings of a Chinese. His questions about racism in America and a possible civil war show that he gets his information from the Woke and sensational Western media. Mearsheimer gently and politely and expertly corrected him. Mearsheimer is a master.
You could also argue that China benefits from woke cultural divisions, whether it believes in them or not. A culturally divided america is weaker than a unified america. It's in China's best interests for america to be weak.
Great interview. I wish more Americans were to educate themselves more about these matters entertained in this Interview. Prof.Mearsheimer is a quite an erudite an the matters of Geopolitics. However I’d like to add the Liberalism which US uses as a pretext to persuade its strong economic interest to maintain its hegemony at the expense of creating atrocious inequalities around the world. The deep state lacks a very important component in its doctrine:: compassion, economic justice and benevolence at a time where they should behave as members of a global community.
You are not going to get American Chinese and American Indians to combat China and India, therefore the idea that America can remain powerful as demographics change is nonsense. MOST populations are tribal and insular, whether you like it or not. The individualism of the west is primarily a phenomena inside the white-liberal population and it won't look good in the long run. We are heading to a multipolar world anyway and the continued conflict through Ukraine is going to end with a BRICS that eventually has more power than the west.
Yes and this is the problem that i have with Mearsheimer about immigration. Historically americas immigration was western european and those groups assimilated very easily, then came the southern and eastern europeans and those groups were a bit harder to assimilate for sure thats why the 1924 immigration law was passed. Had the 1965 immigration law not been passed America would be a vastly more powerful country today, a lot more stable and have a bright future ahead of it. These ethnic conflicts would not exist and America would have been more united than ever before. Its just a constant giant headache having to deal with this 'gift' of diversity and tribalism. And as time goes on its gonna cause even more division and that will in time affect foreign and domestic policy aswell even more.
@@ak-od7mf your theory is interesting, but the one thing that most people forget, is the enormous power of wealthy ruling elites of old Europe, mostly anglos, they wield enormous wealth, capable of corrupting any govt or nations. able to push any and all corporate agendas, when Europe was bankkrupted, they moved over to U$, consolidated and molded new U$A into the largest military corporation masquerading as a country. Unless these wealthy oligarchs are reigned in, U$ will never change.
We need to see the Professor on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc. He speaks common sense and truth to power. It is telling that he is not interviewed by the so-called corrupt main stream media.
Even not a realty show, this is the most stupid show, even vote doesn’t count each person vote, election mean each human citizen over 18 years should count, but is it count on US, no
I am sending for Ralph Naters' new book," Let's Start a Revolution." I think it's late, and I advise educated young people to LEAVE the USA soon before the doors are locked from the inside!
Spreading liberal democracy? What about replacing social democracies with dictators? Nice job trying to paint the US interventions with good intentions.
Exactly! I couldn't believe my ears. I was laying in bed watching this, and I had to yell out "YOU'RE A LIAR!!!!!". I think I may have frightened my cat who was resting peacefully in my room.
Me too. Could not believe JM said USA Inc has been spreading democracy, cover story for Economic Imperialism. Maybe he isn't so smart or he believes in Hillary Clintons "indespensable nation".
I believe most people in the american gov truly believe they're trying to bring liberal democracy to countries they attack. They also believe that if they can't achieve this, a friendly (to the US) dictator is a good second option. In both options their goal is to bring the country under the influence/control of the US. Neoimperialism either economically/political or by military force. Remember how crazy religious people are in the US, they truly believe they're the chosen country to bring well being to all other nations.
Instead of arming Taiwan, Ukraine and Israel; US tax payer money should be spent on infrastructure, healthcare, education, homelessness etc.
And still you’d be unhappy
100%
Taxpayer money is but a drop in the bucket. It's all about selling government debt and printing money to pay for all this s***
Shoulda woulda coulda but will it? I don’t think so, money will go to where the puppet master wants them to go to, they get richer
That because they are all Freemasonry from the very foundation of U.S. There are always some truth but not full truth in Conspiracy.
It's not about spreading democracy, it's about spreading the area of their companies.
Spreading zionism
@@Kalagi545-tg7ek - eh, Zionism is just a way to build support for the colonial project.
Colonizers will make up any BS possible to justify a land grab.
If people wanted to return to the holy land they would have just done it. slowly build a majority while making friends.
Instead they used the British to disarm and suppress the indigenous Palestinian population while the zionists built up their own forces to seize the land.
Zionism is the circus, its the song and the dance used to drum up support. What the USA spreads is colonialism like the British before them, using the British playbook too.
demowhat??
follow the money
This is correct. 4 star general Smedley Butler said this in the 1920 - War is a Racket.
John has advocating to contain China for decades, yet Chinese are interested in inviting him as a guest in interviews and exchanges while in Washington his view is never treasured. The comparison is so interesting and shows how closed-minded US politics has become.
He is not advocating. He is a realist and explains to the audience what the US system will do.
So you can and China can have him
@@Kimmimaro86 there is literally a clip of him saying that the US must contain China because if China have the GDP per capita of South Korea or Hong Kong, it will be a super power that's more than twice as strong as the US.
Though admittedly he may have said it to make a point more than as his personal opinion.
Yep, almost as close minded as Chinese politics.
This is probably the best interview I've seen Dr Miersheimer do, and I think that's has a lot to do with the questions asked of him. I typically see him interviewed by Western journalists, so they typically ask him the same types of questions. Hearing this gentleman's questions from an Eastern perspective really helped bring out more information. Bravo.
Yes - the most intelligent question I've ever heard asked: "How do this blob influence him......?"
Ha ha.
Meershimmer is so out of touch with reality.
He says Nothing new here and " spins" his narrative but omuts anything he dies not like and does not fit his "NARRATIVE"
A FALSE " NARRATIVE"!!
@@Franklin-pc3xdthis China man is not intelligent! Lol
Truly. Enjoyed immensely compared to when he's interviewed by westerners. Great video.
Nailed it. Fascinating and refreshing.
USA doesn't have Elections .. it has Cosplay Festivals where the folks vote for their favourite costumes. Then everyone goes home and takes off their costumes and everything continues as before.
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The USA is a kakistocracy a government of a state by it's most stupid ignorant least qualified and unprincipled citizens in power
@@jazz249 the USA is a kakistocracy a government of a state by it's most stupid ignorant least qualified and unprincipled citizens in power
Ha ha ha
Many Marxists scholars have identified this aesthetics of democracy, the pretension of democracy.
Professor Meirsheimer is a national treasure so much knowledge I can listen to him for hours thank you sir
LOL it is public knowledge that Prof M is an anti China war hawk.
Prof M wished that U$ allied with Russia against China, that was his regret!!
Besides he is just like most Americans, he believed in the "manifest destiny".
A true diplomatic stateman should be like this not liars like Blinken and Kirby.
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Well, what do we expect from Blinky, the cockstar ? He cocked everything up every time he opened his gob .
Old school versus new school. Not to say that the old schoolers did not lie but they did have honour.
@@stuartmoore6310at least they knew how to not make complete fools of themselves and of those they were supposed to represent
The guest said the system has to be fixed, the election system in fact is fixed already by the money and militarily power.
The US political system is the most corrupt in the world? You need to "raise" tons of money in the first place to be considered. It goes on, the legal system is against anyone without money, the advertising fees are enormous........
@@tschoong3897 Roman Republic was similar
It's worse than that. The US political system "solved" corruption by making it legal. It's even more insidious than illegal corruption because people just take it as an unavoidable fact of life rather than something to be fixed. @jamesmurphy9426 made the perfect analogy. The US is very much like the Roman Republic: plutocracy masquerading as democracy. And with a rapidly crumbling empire to boot.
Legalized system of bribery in all branches propped up by corporate wealth
yep. an oligarchy! dictatorship of the rich. ZERO democracy! I'm baffled all the time that the USA is considered democratic... absurd!
Thank you for explaining the WHY of the problem.
Great questions and Mearsheimer at his very best. An absolute pleasure to watch and gain so much clarity and insight. Well done Shanghai Eye! (From Australia)
I've always been a fan of Prof. Mearsheimer, but I am very impressed with the gentleman interviewing him. I would challenge Prof. Mearsheimer on the use of the term containment. The US does not simply contain a potential adversary they try to destroy them.
The "gentleman interviewing him" is a Taiwanese journalist based in the US and works for a broadcasting station from mainland China . However, his reports are mainly in the Chinese language .
Never trust this guy John, his speeches had always advocated for war with China.
@@MohdRashidMohdYusofyou are so right
Yes, Ching-Yi Chang is an excellent reporter. He started with an interviewee who had a wealth of insight, learned everything about it, figured out the critical issues, and wrote a list of questions to get those insights. I've seen dozens of interviews with John Mearsheimer, but Chang's interview brought out the structure of American politics in a way that I hadn't understood before. I'm disappointed to see that his main work is in Chinese, a language I never mastered.
@@norman_5623 I think you are right. Too many interviewers interrupt their guests and prevent them from developing their ideas. It takes a strong man to bring out the best of people. The events of our world did not occur in months or years but over decades. I don't speak Chinese either, so I hope he chooses to do more English language reports.
Always a pleasure to hear Professor Mearsheimer's views. He logically connect the dots to our international situation rather than insult us with bogeyman hype. Thank you.
I love how it says that the media outlet is owned by the Chinese government at the top of the video as if it's a health warning! Maybe information from the BBC should have the same?
Interesting. True?
@@jerkersoderlind7205 I don't think it matters who owns the media, but rather the quality of interviews and reports in terms of how balanced they are. It is also true there aren't any balanced western media any more almost 99.9% are mostly lies.
U$ just passed a bill HR 1517 worth $1.6B up from $350m, for spreading anti China propaganda!
I also noted that. And I totally agree with the example of BBC (and actually to any MSM - we can point out who owns them etc.)
The question we have to ask ourselves is; how much do we love Prof. Meirsheimer?
Does the world start from the west?
Moderate. His views on the benefits of immigration are jarringly moronic.
@@krunkle5136 i’d say no he is right in terms of immigration. The United States is a nation of immigrants. It’s not a white only state if you want something like that you have to probably go to Europe somewhere to look for some kind of society even in Europe that’s changing at the end of the day we humans are all the same species we can breed we are the most intelligent of mankind were able to do something. This whole notion of dividing us based off of religion. Ethnicity is just not gonna work anymore that’s one of the reasons that the right wing is ultimately terminal decline
@@sidp5381 we're not all the same. I don't mean that there's either a superior way over another, but we adapt and evolve to geography, and generally people operate more smoothly when they live in societies of similar people that all share a deep ancestry with the land they inhabit. Homogeneity works, and to a degree so does some xenophobia.
Without this, you get the internally divided countries like Brazil where there's underclasses of distinct people that never assimilate fully and develop their own rebellion, which makes functioning on a complete level impossible.
It's fine though to have a small germ of outsider influence, but in general, society needs to be filled with loyal committed people, similar in nature to the various east Asian cultures.
The neoliberal order is transient and weak, and for better or worse, the grip that world war ii has on the western psyche is weakening.
I say this though agreeing with you that America is an exception. America is destined to be a place where the world's malcontents can find an opportunity in a still vast land.
We don't love him at all. All of these fawning comments are scams.
I would love to see the end to the Ukraine war and improved relations with Russia. It’s definitely possible but we have to accept our responsibility in the war and that will never happen.
American ego .
America not courting Russia to its side as a bulwark against China will go down as the biggest geopolitical mistake in its history, next to losing China to Mao in 1949. Absolute hubris led to this when it didn't have to.
Look at history, Russia has to end. it is happening and will be under new control of Poland
America wil geen Euraziatische economie
That would require admitting we made a mistake. That would require an apology to the American People and then to wait for their forgiveness. They do not have the humility to do the first nor the patience and faith for the second. John is incorrect about people not wanting or liking Trump. We the People live Trump. You've been living in Hyde Park too long, John with all due respect.
Nice to see two gentlemen discussing things intelligently. Thank you. 😀
Yes. America has a big and powerful
military , but has never won any war since 1945. Defeated in Vietnam, Korea,Cuba, Afghanistan, Iraq , Syria, Somalia.
It won in Grenada, lol, & masterminded a ton of anti-democratic coups in in Latin America, Africa, & SE Asia. So give it a pinch of imperial cred.
It has a very expensive military might. Powerful, I am not sure about that. Look at the countries you listed, its a clear proof USA has not been tested in a real war with an enemy of high magnitude, like Russia or China.
The US won against Japan not Germany. The USSR won the war again Germany.
The US has never lost a war of survival. The horrific wars you mentioned achieved various strategic aims in part along with losses. The Korean war was a UN force led by the US that was fought to a stalemate. Russia and China would fare no better. In fact they didn't. Russia lost in Afghanistan and the US was predominantly fighting China in Korea.
Yes but why they do it, because of military industrial complex who are the real bosses and do not have any sense of humanity but domination, control and colonization.
God bless you professor John..You and Jeff Sacks will enjoy a special place in heaven for always being honest and speaking the truth. You stand for fairness and justice.
It's so refreshing to hear how you speak unbiasedly about the situation in Ukraine and Palestine.
*Mearsheimer has been constantly wrong in all his predictions the last years.*
"Politics is the entertainment wing of the military industrial complex " Frank Zappa 😊
He really said that?
You got it!
They do get most of the budget tbf
@@Amalokch yes among many other political things.......check out his song The Slime
Yep, it keeps Americans entertained-and enslaved-to itself.
Both John and Zhang conducted a very intelligent and interesting dialogue. Quite impressive!
Mearsheimer is brilliant!
If he was brilliant he wouldn't talk about what is happening in a war zone with so much confidence. Military intelligence knows whats going on there, not a random civilian. At most what we get are choice videos each side releases to show how good they are doing.
You think people in Berlin or Moscow knew what was happening on the eastern front in late 1941? They found out years later.
We have internet now info is easy 😂 @@ssuuppeerrbbooyy
@@ssuuppeerrbbooyy if “military intelligence” was so intelligent this war would never have taken place.
@@bikerd12well done counter 😂 this asshole doesn’t get it.
@@ssuuppeerrbbooyy do you think they had the same information systems in 1941 as we have now? It would be interesting to know where he gets his info
China has the greatest manufacturing capacity. US has the greatest clown production capacity and the greatest national debt.
You.... you really don't know anything about China do you? They have a 300% debt to GDP ratio... Their national debt is so vast it makes Greece look fiscally sound. Now this doesn't mean that China's a bad country or whatever, it's just... well it's become the manufacturer of the world through debt investing in getting more low productivity manufacturing going. The debt spending on it and keeping their people's social services low has been what makes it competitive. However now that cheap labor is no longer an option in China they are looking back and realizing that maaaaybe... just maybe they should have spent more money on productivity improvements instead of fixating quite so much on full employment because now they can't borrow much more to do it. They have their own issues to resolve in the 21st century, the US has different ones.
China also has many mouths to feed and has to import its food.
@@henrylicious What they really need to import is the stuff to make the food. They use a lot lot lot of inputs to make the same volume of food as the USA. One of the things that China is not blessed with is geography that favors agriculture and they paved over a lot of good geography to make cities.
Go off schitzo.
Imagine still believing in Americas national debt scam!
I appreciate John Mearsheimer's work, and I follow his segments on Judge Napolitano and elsewhere closely. However, I still find myself skeptical of the reasoning behind the argument that the United States MUST contain China. The argument seems flimsy, and I remain unconvinced about the inevitability of great power conflict. Cooperation can be pursued if done so with purpose and earnestness. The US is interested in hegemony, not cooperation. For China, it's the opposite. The US is driven by actors with bad intentions.
USA is a warmongering country.
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the west is all about domination especially of non western countries
Mearsheimer is just another white supremacist pretending to sound reasonable. He still subscribe to the white man knows best doctrine.
Self proclaimed as realist, John says US must contain China because of power politics. I totally disagree because of 2 reasons:
1) No reality including power politics is more ultimate than this reality : that if we don’t respect and love each other, nobody (including Americans) could survive with lethal weapons eg nuclear weapons. There is no such thing as A country MUST contain B country unless A country wants to be decimated as well. What’s is the point of A gaining to be the hegemonic power and yet decimated as B and all other countries at the same time. Only the dumb and stupidest would do this . Can anyone challenge this ultimate reality? I profess myself as ultimate realist .
2) John forgets there is a huge gap between human and other animals or what we call the lower animals. Science has yet to prove that this gap is bridgeable . Humans have proven to be much wiser and much more rational than other animals due to their God given ability to reflect and change course to do good and to avoid harm, if not for survival of their own skins. John’s reality is based on the belief that humans beings are just same as lower animals whose actions are only dictated by animal instincts , the survival of the fittest. But history and human progress in the past thousands years have already proved john’s reducing human beings to just lower animals wrong.
excellent interview, highly informative and really enjoyable
It’s disconcerting to me to hear that Kamala Harris is wildly unpopular, yet she has the support of Bernie Sanders, AOC, Joe Manchin, and even Darth Vader himself, Dick Cheney.
It’s true that the political system is broken, but the reason is the obscene amount of money involved and the fact that it has become an entertainment rather than a debate about policy.
Unfortunately deals are cut behind the scenes.. what is Bernie and AOC getting, I wager not much
When you exist on credit money that you can create at your own discretion any time, you lose touch with reality. It's like children of very reach parents who "made themselves". Spoilt, overbearing and destined to painfully realize their attitude wrong when it's too late.
Why is it "disconcerting"? It's obvious and expected that she has the support of losers like Sanders (who betrayed his supporters), warmongers like Cheney, and sell-outs like AOC.
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They (Bernie & AOC) get to keep their jobs. That's what they get. 😊
The US as well as all other countries are run by and for the elite. I’ve stopped paying much attention to the cosplay
What respectful interviewer. Thank you both.
What I really respect about Mr. Mearsheimer is that he truly tells the truth, at least how he views it. He is not politically aligned or overtly biased in his analysis. Few people like him now on the main stage unfortunately.
He represents the deep state, and China containment is his obsession.
His guiding principle is that every enemy of the west always tells the truth despite the facts and the only way to deal with them is to fully appease their demands. It's bizarre he is viewed as having any credibility.
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Well rightwing is too much of snowflake losers to allow anyone that diagrees with their lack of philosophy to thrive.
They want artificial consensus, which is not how you run a company or a country.
Not a great one, anyhow.
Ah well. Such is life.
What the professor is saying is America is complicit to genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
great interview! well done, Mr. Zhang!
Great interview. John Mearsheimer is always a great pleasure to listen to. A mind with great clarity.
Actually US, Russia and China should be friends. We can compete each other in term of economy. But not to try to destroy each other. Imagine if we 3 countries become friends, will be the most powerful on this earth.
That will only happen in the absence of Israel.
That's not how US imperialism works, that's not how enslavement works. If you want to be the boss you can't be an equal with other countries like Russia and China.
The U.S. dollar/economy literally relies on world hegemony. China on the other hand is trying to catch up in terms of everything the U.S. is dominating at in order for their citizens to have better living standard. I hate to say it look more and more like a zero-sum game at the end. The winner takes it all.
The US is owned by the Zionist lobby
Have you heard of a term called SANCTION? My friend.
He Does an interview in His humble home he is a national treasure
I disagree with Miersheimer that China will translate most of its economic might to military might. Americans view the world, especially China, through American lenses. China is not interested in becoming the sole superpower, and maintaining a unipolar world, with itself as the single pole. China recognizes the reality that there will be a multipolar world, and welcomes it.
Here are some evidence for what I say. Unlike the US, China has only 1 or 2 military bases around the world. Its military is basically configured to fight the US in East Asia. It has only a few hundred nuclear weapons, even though it can afford thousands. Its biggest projects (the Belt And Road, gigantic dams, a massive high speed rail network, the push to green energy, lifting 800 million people out of abject poverty, etc.) are civilian projects. China, having been poor for so long, wants to prosper, and it has the common sense to know that war, let alone perpetual war, is not the way to prosperity. Americans, being parochial, have difficulty seeing other people's points of view.
@@katong1953 It's realist outlook nothing to do with politics or religion, a strong economy will try to raise it's military and political influence,
just like a strong military will try to increase it's political and economical interests it just goes hand in hand unless the state is not functioning correctly which'll insure it's demise
Agreed. If you listen to him very very carefully, he is a white supremacist, not very different from Jordan Peterson. Peterson is stupid while this man is very smart. He is actually trying his best to wake his nation up, he is not interested in a multipolar world. He loves Russia because because Russians are European.@@katong1953
@@katong1953 Thank you for the cultural insight. Miersheimer is not worried that China will act irrationally (total war economy conversion). Miersheimer is worried that after China exceeds military production parity with the United States (many claim it already has) that it will trigger an irrational response from whatever foreign policy entity is driving escalation with russia, china, and iran. After seeing the carnage in Ukraine the Chinese people must realize that the same weapons from the same companies are staring them down right across the strait.
This has been the problem of white supremacy for centuries seing the world with their myopic ates. This has caused unnecessary pain to the world. There are enough resources in the world if greedy and immense determination to keep the rest of the world poor so that they could keep their domination. I'm an African and understand CHINA. The world is too complicated to pretend that one single Country has the power og enough knowledge to solve their problems. @katong1953
🇬🇧 Professer Mearshiemer is superb at articulating complex multipolar issues to understandable points and perspectives. It makes it so easy to believe his every utterance. Big fan.
Isn’t he american tho?
@simpleman3663 Yes he is American.
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@@fredrikh9299 You might have a point there
He delivers brilliantly perceptive insights in language so clear that they seem obvious -- the temptation is to think, "I knew that," when you didn't at all.
Very interesting.
Thank you for this interview to the two of you and everyone involved.
1. Campaign reform, get big money out!
2. Voter identification and voting day needs to be a national holiday.
3. Senators and congressmen and women should not be able to trade stocks while serving!
Let's also reform Healthcare by putting gov't officials on the SAME program as the population at large. They currently have a Cadillac of Healthcare system just for them.
Won't happen because money is so powerful.
Not possible to get the money out. The government demonstrated it would suppress speech to control elections.
All that would definitely be a step in the right direction, and don’t forget radical tax reform: start by bringing back the “New Deal” corporate tax rates instituted by FDR.
Will not happen, America's success is build around the American dream: "Get rich fast" no matter how, no matter anything, just "Get rich fast", money run the system, money runs the legal system too, so not much chance to change the law/rules about elections. So only bad things can change the American system like a civil war, and nobody really want that.
It is just a pleasure to listen to to this formidable professor about the foreign politic of US. The yung Chinese journalist ask very important questions , a lot of civility it is refreshing thanks to both of you
it is so weird to see Prof. John Mearsheimer without his glasses. :)
I think he should wear a monocle 🧐 👀
Production values are up here, lol
I think he is wearing contact lenses to look younger and he does.
I did a doubletake when I saw the thumbnail
He might have had that corrective laser surgery that improves near sighted vision
Great interview, a credit to the interviewer.
I was fascinated by the deep exploration of the power relations between and within these states. John Mearsheimer is a great guest who was talking in a systematic way about the whole. Different and better than many interviews we see in the West. New subscriber.
*Take a look at his predictions from 1-3 years ago. Mearsheimer has been wrong in most of his predictions the last years.*
I was an elected representative in the UK. I called it "A Shamocracy"
It is a plutocracy, kleptocracy and kakistocracy.
UK political system has been infiltrated by the Conservative Friends of... & Labour Friends of...
@@PhiloSurfer In America, they have Idiocracy!
😂😂😂😂 idiocracy for me
An excellent, respectful interview with serious discussions and substance. Great job by the interviewer.
Professor extremely smart person in US enjoy watching mind growing talk
Thank you very much for asking these questions to an expert like John. You really allowed me to understand what is going on in my own country much moreb
Mearsheimer is my favorite imperialist because he's honest. I can't think of another one that is honest
Could not have agreed more. The core of Realism is the principle of not allowing rise of any peer competitors, which is China now. I am sure he is not happy that the US is not 100% focusing on suppressing China and instead wasting time and efforts in the Middle East and Ukraine….
@@manhui0507 yep. I believe he's suggested that's what America should be doing before. he's a wiser imperialist lol
@@TippityTapTap47 There's a difference between 'should' and 'would'. Read his arguments carefully. He's advocating that the US should contain China first, and he's disappointed at the current US admin prioritizing Russia over China. He's an imperialist through and through.
I definitely have heard Mearsheimer presenting US imperialistic behaviours towards Australia in Australian Press Club. I think he must have changed his mind about all this US Imperialism at some point. Or it's not as strong or obvious. It's funny to me how he is now considered an outspoken critic of that Imperialism.
@@simplica1It blows my mind that ppl still think he's rational just because he openly admits to US global supremacy. Go after China... would be going after the rest of the world. There's nothing rational about it.
The man is living in the cold war era and can't get his head out of his own ass. Why do so many ppl fall it?
We the people are broken, years of ferocious pressure and neglect has forced the middle class into addictions!
You have done an excellent interview with the most qualified, fairest, astute statesman existing in the US ! I highly respect John Mearsheimer and his views/analysis ....I am with him, and his truth telling! I agree with everything he reveals, believes !
Thanks to the channel for interviewing Professor Mearsheimer, always a pleasure to hear from him, even though I disagree with his views on containing China (if true), and thanks to the guest for the interview! It would have been nice if the video had been given time stamps for easier viewing.
The sound of logic and common sense in the land of madness and propaganda.
Those were some really good questions? Splendid work! U got my sub! Always great to hear Professor Mearsheimer.
what a treat to get to listen to this distinguished professor, thankyou.
He is regular on Judging Freedom podcast, you can check it out, he is there every week
cheers for the tip
I think torat1511 vote corrupt Politians like Biden and Kamala Harris
@torat1511, if your own different opinions, try call CNN, BBC and get interview from them if you so smart...
@@torat1511if JFK still live today, maybe he does not agree with US foreign policy's today......
Great interview! Thank you!
Fortunately, this guest’s perspectives is not welcomed by the u s war regime and that is a blessing.
This was a great, in depth interview. One of the best I've seen in quite some time. IMO, John is a national treasure. He has the intellect, knowledge, wisdom and statesmanship that I think anyone seeking higher office in our country should have.
2:34 - It’s not “hard to say”, it’s really quite simple: in the Western liberal democracies, and in the United States in particular, power has now fully shifted away from the public sphere and into the private sector; the Ship of State is on autopilot: it’s at the corporate boardrooms, not the legislative bodies, that the big decisions are being made...it’s the billionaire oligarchs, not the statesmen, that really run the show. America has the best political system that money can buy. 🗽🇺🇸
well said
Thanks.
Excellent interview!!! Many thanks!
Wisest citizen on earth who openly talk about how politics work
Check Prof. Jeffery Sachs. You will be more amazed.
Very enlightening explanation of the political situation prevailing in the USA
Thank you on this interview,what a great mind professor Mirshemier is. I think he is only public person that i can listen for two hours and not miss the word!
Great summation of the current state of US foreign policy from a great scholar!
So, if China's military might exceeds that of the US, and they obtained that might without wars and military bases around the world. What would the US do?
The answer to your question lies at the heart of what makes great power politics so tragic. As China grows more powerful and develops interests and relations all over the world, other world powers (the minor ones and the great ones) will, without a doubt, seek to contain and recede it. To defend its interests, China will have to use its newly acquired military might to deter any threats. Within short few decades, China (and any alliance it builds) will find itself precisely where the US and NATO currently are. Until we solve many of the fundamental problems of the human race, this will be an inescapable reality
The Chinese military can't "exceed the US" if it has "no military bases around the world." That's a contradictory question.
Without military bases around the world, the most China could hope to do is outclass the US in the South/East China Seas, making it impossible for the US to "defend" Taiwan (I put "defend" in quotes, because I don't think US military intervention turns out good for anyone). But the security alliances are practically to the point that China invading Taiwan could trigger regional war, which no one wants. So basically it's just a build-up of forces that spell potential mutual destruction in the region if ever they get tested.
This is why, for example, the Europeans and Americans are largely not fighting the Russians directly in Ukraine: mutual destruction. But I agree with the other comment that we need to, as a species, find a way out of this cycle of "great power" clashes.
Without diplomacy we are all lost..
@@Flaakk yes, and what are the fundamental problems? I just saw an interview with Danny Haifong and professor Zhang Weiwei, he has an optional perspective fused with Chinas civilizational statehood…
If it becomes evident that they can wipe out any threat anywhere in the world, then nobody is going to start anything with them cause countries would know they can't win.
Pragmatic and objective analysis at every level. Not sure I necessarily agree with all his conclusions, anymore than I agreed with Kissinger's, but his expertise is manifestly outstanding.
A very good and educational interview. Well done to both.
Excellent interview, and so very insightful.
We all need to work towards common peace, prosperity and growth 📈
Excellent interview & not JUST because it was a job well done but also because Prof. Mearsheimer is a 😍 of mine. I now follow him, Sachs & Finkelstein everywhere
*Take a look at his predictions from 1-3 years ago. Mearsheimer has been wrong in most of his predictions the last years.*
@@fredrikh9299 not in relation to America's behavior
One of the best academics of international relations. Any US president should have him as advisor
What great critical thinker he is. Showing knowledge about the world and States.
The best Mearsheimer interview I ever seen!👍
The only one I've seen and I don't agree with the gentleman at all.
Thank goodness for the Chinese! They appreciate the insight that Mearsheimer brings to the table so gave us this interview. Thank you, Professor 🙏
*Mearsheimer has been constantly wrong in all his predictions the last years.*
@@fredrikh9299 like what? Examples plz?
Very good questions from the host and intelligent answers from the guest John Mearsheimer. Impressive program today. This was a farther reaching discussion than usually happens on American TV.
*Take a look at his predictions from 1-3 years ago. Mearsheimer has been wrong in most of his predictions the last years.*
Great interview. Mearsheimer an irresistible intellectual powerhouse. ❤
*Mearsheimer has been constantly wrong in all his predictions the last years.*
The legend John mearsheimer is here ❤️❤️❤️👑👑👑👑
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Bernie Sanders should've ran as an independent instead of a Democrat. I know he would've won!
A superb source of information in one hour. Thank you.
John is the most supreme wisdom
The American people have a third choice: Jill Stein. Vote Green.
This is a great interview. The interviewer is concise and to the point, and the interviewee is clear-minded, knowledgable, and straightforward. Just curious why smart people work in academic circles not in the administration.
I am from India and have been following geopolitics for a while now.. I'm a great fan of Sir Mearshiemer. His articulation is so perfect. I just admire his knowledge and analysis of things how they are instead what is shown to us in unbaised way.. Pure facts articulated in impressive manner. Thank you sir for all you hard work and efforts you put tin throughout your whole life understing things as they are.. ❤❤
LOL it is public knowledge that Prof M is an anti China war hawk.
Prof M wished that U$ allied with Russia against China, that was his regret!!
Besides he is just like most Americans, he believed in the "manifest destiny".
*Mearsheimer has been constantly wrong in all his predictions the last years.*
Great analysis of Prof John Mearsheimer
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The problem is the lack of knowledge of the voters.
That's known as "asymmetric information", which was the subject of the 2001 Nobel prize in economics, to George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz. The Nobel prize web site is a good place to get a good introduction to the subject for the general public or professional economists. People on the left say that it benefits those in power to keep voters ignorant, and have them vote on irrelevant factors such as identity politics or social issues, rather than on policies of health care, education, housing, etc. I think Mearsheimer would agree, which is why he gives a lot of time to alternative media like the GrayZone.
Huge thanks to both.
Mearsheimer is being his usual excellence. The interviewer shows the culture bias and misunderstandings of a Chinese. His questions about racism in America and a possible civil war show that he gets his information from the Woke and sensational Western media. Mearsheimer gently and politely and expertly corrected him. Mearsheimer is a master.
You could also argue that China benefits from woke cultural divisions, whether it believes in them or not. A culturally divided america is weaker than a unified america. It's in China's best interests for america to be weak.
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@@fredrikh9299 Source?
Very insightful. Crystal clear. Thanks.
It's amazing how lucid he is at his age. Wish him a long and healthy life.
Finally - an Honest assessment of the international issues. Thank you, Professor.
professor Meairshimer is brilliant! unbiased and factual
Brilliante?
*Take a look at his predictions from 1-3 years ago. Mearsheimer has been wrong in most of his predictions the last years.*
Thank you for this very informative interview coveing many political fronts.
Wow... mearsheimer is so great 💎💡🔻
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Great interview. I wish more Americans were to educate themselves more about these matters entertained in this Interview. Prof.Mearsheimer is a quite an erudite an the matters of Geopolitics. However I’d like to add the Liberalism which US uses as a pretext to persuade its strong economic interest to maintain its hegemony at the expense of creating atrocious inequalities around the world. The deep state lacks a very important component in its doctrine:: compassion, economic justice and benevolence at a time where they should behave as members of a global community.
Well explained indeed 🎉 this interview is special because it covers many different areas of politics.
You are not going to get American Chinese and American Indians to combat China and India, therefore the idea that America can remain powerful as demographics change is nonsense. MOST populations are tribal and insular, whether you like it or not. The individualism of the west is primarily a phenomena inside the white-liberal population and it won't look good in the long run. We are heading to a multipolar world anyway and the continued conflict through Ukraine is going to end with a BRICS that eventually has more power than the west.
Yes and this is the problem that i have with Mearsheimer about immigration.
Historically americas immigration was western european and those groups assimilated very easily, then came the southern and eastern europeans and those groups were a bit harder to assimilate for sure thats why the 1924 immigration law was passed.
Had the 1965 immigration law not been passed America would be a vastly more powerful country today, a lot more stable and have a bright future ahead of it.
These ethnic conflicts would not exist and America would have been more united than ever before. Its just a constant giant headache having to deal with this 'gift' of diversity and tribalism.
And as time goes on its gonna cause even more division and that will in time affect foreign and domestic policy aswell even more.
@@ak-od7mf your theory is interesting, but the one thing that most people forget, is the enormous power of wealthy ruling elites of old Europe, mostly anglos, they wield enormous wealth, capable of corrupting any govt or nations. able to push any and all corporate agendas, when Europe was bankkrupted, they moved over to U$, consolidated and molded new U$A into the largest military corporation masquerading as a country.
Unless these wealthy oligarchs are reigned in, U$ will never change.
This was a fantastic interview. Great to hear an unbiased assessment. He looks like a bloke I could have a beer with 😂
John Mearsheimer is a good man.
*Take a look at his predictions from 1-3 years ago. Mearsheimer has been wrong in most of his predictions the last years.*
@fredrikh9299 I didn't mean that he's 100% accurate or always right. rather, that he's a decent man.
We need to see the Professor on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc. He speaks common sense and truth to power. It is telling that he is not interviewed by the so-called corrupt main stream media.
Incredibly powerful country that could not win any war except against Hawai and Haiti. Powerful indeed.
Professor Jeffery Sachs would be an interview worthy having. Best wishes.
The US elections is like a reality show
"reality" show
Even not a realty show, this is the most stupid show, even vote doesn’t count each person vote, election mean each human citizen over 18 years should count, but is it count on US, no
I am sending for Ralph Naters' new book," Let's Start a Revolution." I think it's late, and I advise educated young people to LEAVE the USA soon before the doors are locked from the inside!
A great man!
Spreading liberal democracy? What about replacing social democracies with dictators? Nice job trying to paint the US interventions with good intentions.
Exactly! I couldn't believe my ears. I was laying in bed watching this, and I had to yell out "YOU'RE A LIAR!!!!!". I think I may have frightened my cat who was resting peacefully in my room.
Me too. Could not believe JM said USA Inc has been spreading democracy, cover story for Economic Imperialism. Maybe he isn't so smart or he believes in Hillary Clintons "indespensable nation".
I believe most people in the american gov truly believe they're trying to bring liberal democracy to countries they attack. They also believe that if they can't achieve this, a friendly (to the US) dictator is a good second option. In both options their goal is to bring the country under the influence/control of the US. Neoimperialism either economically/political or by military force. Remember how crazy religious people are in the US, they truly believe they're the chosen country to bring well being to all other nations.
You have totally predicted it perfectly!!!!