Good riddance. To hell with globalism too.

Listening this in Feb-2022, and it makes sense.... Very good perspective sir...🙏

Why does he makes so much sense?

Your title is wrong. He's talking about liberal hegemony being over not democracy. Is it a mistake or a clickbait? Fix it

Agree with him, or disagree with him -- this was a great talk.

This guy is interesting. Will probably watch this again. One of your best in awhile, Phil, thanks.

Just under 75 years of prosperity is at its end. The luckiest Americans were born in 1946.

He's right and Francis Fukuyama will be seen as an idiot for forever in history. End of history right? Wrong.

Everything he said makes sense 💯

A great segment on this topic from the professor. He’s really on a roll here and still sharp as a tack in his 70s. I’ve learned so much from his KZfaq videos and hope he lives to 100 so he can keep providing his uniquely insightful commentary.

Outstanding analysis... Great american intellectual..

What does he mean “overselling of individual rights?” Seems to me like they sell collectivism.

None of them were truly committed to victory like the sides were in WWII. They would have just killed all resistance if the stakes were high.

We need a modernized political philosophy. Machiavelli is getting pretty stale with the lack of recognition that there is no upper limit to the value of human ideas. That is, given the right philosophical approach regarding supremacy of human moral progress, governing societies can continue with an infinity of improvement depending on what people think and do.

So according to this video’s title, Liberal Hegemony = Liberal Democracy?

Imagine an alternate timeline wherein Lewis Black became a political scientist instead of comedian...

Dear chap talks like 18 years of occupying Afghanistan hasn't yielded billions of dollars of profits in opium and minerals etc. Weird analysis.

"Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work worthy the interposition of a deity. More humble and I think truer to consider him created from animals." -Charles Darwin

The title should probably be "John Mearsheimer: Liberal hegemony is over" I feel my normie friends would dismiss it without even looking as hyperbole if I tried to show it to them.

When American forces arrive in Kabul or Tehran what do they do first? Fix the power or water, NAH, not a chance...they set up a lesbian counseling service. So progressive...so helpful

Interesting.

America will always be engaged in hot military action, somewhere in the world for 2 reasons. 1. Our constitution does not allow for a standing army outside of a time of declared war, therefore we are always officially at war with some nation. 2. We will not allow our officer and NCO and reserve corps to be depleted of people who have actual combat experience. That institutional experience must be sustained.

what if another country is fighting to get liberal democracy? should we help them like France helped us during the American revolution?

Misleading video title. He argued that liberal hegemony is over not liberal democracy

I was looking for videos on 'liberal democracy vs conservative democracy'. I was hoping this would explain why conservative democracy was winning, but conservative democracy doesn't even seem to be a 'thing', so discouraging...

Which is summarized by the expression: 'The meek shall inherit the Earth. So long as thats alright with everyone else ...'

He said Liberal Hegemony is over in geopolitics, not Democracy.

He is correct in point out that liberal democracy did not work in Vietnam and Afghanistan. It did not work Russia and China is very afraid of doing that. However, Mr. Mearsheimer failed to point out that it works in other countries particularly in Japan when the monarchist was abolished, in South Korea, in Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong. These are the sovereigns that esposed liberal democracy and we can see how their economy developed. Modern countries like the Baltic states espoused it. Even the Arab spring are product of the ideal of liberal democracy. This idealogy is like a spectre to totalitarian state. In the case of China, they do not want it because it will threaten the existence and legitimacy of the communist party. Also Vladimir Putin is afraid that his cabalistic elite rule will be wiped out when more Russians will demand more freedom particularly economic and personal liberty. Just because the US was not able to propagate or defend, it does not mean it is the doom of it. On the other hand, western society was benefited from it. There are no other part of the world that has a better standard of living than in the West or those under the Western sphere of influence. If you say China did it, that's partly a success. But come to think about it. Why is it that the best ideas are still coming from the west or its sphere of influence? If China is really a developed society, why are they stealing intellectual property rights? Why can't they develop their own? In other words, a society can only prosper if it established institution that may cultivate and uphold human liberties. The west was able to establish it. The checks and balances of teh government and the establishment of the accountabilities minimizes the risk of dictators. However, it is not a perfect system. But it is a better one wherein people are empowered and freedom is guaranteed. This is still a better ideology. I bet, many Chinese would rather flee from China and immigrate to other nation if they have a chance.

Eastern Europeans may have something to say about NATO being right beside Russia.

it's an interesting view on why Russians don't favor liberal democracy

Misleading title. Liberal hegemony is over. Not liberal democracy.

Not a very good analysis. There is still no comparison of American pursuit of liberty and individualism with any other ideology in the world. Nobody in this world would think Afghanistan is a better system. The point is that we did not have necessary will or tools...we probably did not want to change them for the better. Left them as they were and that is the problem.

Liberal democracy is over is something completely different than liberal hegemony. I don't think you've understood this section of the talk if that is your take away.

Modern warfare - Westphalian Rules War - often loses. For it to work, the combatants all have to buy into Enlightenment foibles. But the natural human rules of war - Carthaginian Rules War - often win. Kill all the adult men, enslave the survivors and scatter them to the four corners of the Earth. Nationalism can be overcome. More precisely, nationalism can be shattered and its last embers dissolved. But the Carthaginian Rules methods are bloody, and frequently require occupation thereafter. OTOH, Carthaginian Rules War is oh so much easier without the obstructions of Liberal Democracy. Yes Liberal Hegemony is over, but not because China and Russia are rising. They're actually falling, and Coronavirus will only accelerate it. Liberal Hegemony is over because Liberal Democracy is dying in the West itself.

*TRUMP-2020*

Wow this guy is in favor of TPP. It time to slow down and more critically evaluate the many talking points this guy quickly rolls over without even discussing why certain policy's were good or bad for America (the middle class- not the elites).

Bad title. You are degrading your product by making these clickbait titles.

Quit right.

imagine a world without NATO AND US...

The vid is great but he's talking about liberal hegemony not liberal democracy

Keeping out of "those" countries - yes - keeping "those' countries out of the U.S.- HELL YES ....... just sayin' ......... ;-p

A Hegemon is neither liberal nor democratic

It is all based on an idea that all players want a staus-quo. Russia certainly is not.

Not gonna lie I’ve watched way too many political videos to count and this guy deals in every “America bad” cliche. For an educated guy he leaves very little room for nuance

Is this guy a reincarnation of Howard Beale?

You can have liberal democracy with other world powers. There are always incentives not to have a liberal democracy, and always incentives to have a liberal democracy. There is no absolute quantity called power that makes one country a world power in all areas. His conclusion is hyperbolic, but most of what he said was.

Great scholar of neo-realism...

wow countries wont allow usa invading them & then telling them how to do politics.

What is good for the good is NOT always what is good for the gander...

on the one hand he makes a lot of sense, but on the other hand he's a jew...

To be fair, a lot of this has been about the oil under the guise of liberal democracy.

God Bless Trump.

The point is the U.S.is improving their strategic advantage and eliminating some enemies and putting China and Russia in their place.

რაღა მაინც და მაინც საქართველოზე გაავლეთ ზღვარი თქვე დედამოტყნულებო?

Still cute.

I know Laotians (Hmong, South Vietnamese) who are glad to be in the USA. First they provided troops to work with USA military to stop encroachment of communism from the north, with the promise they could come to the USA if the effort against the north failed. And now they are here. This is the condensed story I've heard many times. Some failures still have good results for the people who needed help.

he's an isolationist. saved you 12 minutes.

For your argument to be consistent we would have to accept the logical inference that the USA should not have been dragged into WWI and WWII either, a notion of which I might be persuaded. Otherwise, you're just picking and choosing wars we should and shouldn't be involved with, and that would take away any scintilla of credibility from your position. In addition, and quoting Ambassador Jean Kirkpatrick, I have to say that “your facts are no facts” Mr. Mearsheimer... Your characterization of a number of historic events you cite in your video (Vietnam, the Cuban missile crisis, Syria, et al) is far removed from what really happened. Finally, we in the West no longer have liberal democracies. It's all about Globalism, Postmodernism, and Neomarxism/Neoliberalism and that's the brand nobody wants, even those of us who live under them.

Realists will say, he makes sense, i can relate to his ideas (because at his core, he is a realist). Idealists will say, no, Old World Machiavellian realpolitik might have some residual adherents in some parts of the world, and it's important to know/acknowledge realism, but no, we should not hail, celebrate or espouse realism as a rule stick or end in itself, but we should/must only use that knowledge about them to find ways not to go back to that Regressive World, and that we should evolve forward. ...(?)

We won in Vietnam. Next Congress voted not to uphold our arms promise and lost it after the fact...

Ok by 9:26 it just gets too stupid. Because Trump wants to cut deals and not spread democracy through war, he is painted as "getting in bed with dictators." Time for the old guy to retire. I'm out.

Occupying primitive third world countries like they're post WW2 Japan and expecting the same success is idiotic. That said, the idea that NATO is bad because China and Russia find it threatening is also idiotic. Of course they find it threatening, they find all foreign offensive and defensive activity threatening because they ARE threats, not to their survival but to their ambitions.

Old fart does have some points, but then he starts elaborating on them. Pity...

There is so much wrong with this guys outlook. Neo-con globalism is not going to make a comeback either, bud.

This video aged like unpasteurized milk at room temperature 😝

WE DID NOT LOSE THE VIETNAM WAR.

Mearsheimer: "DEMOKRATIE STUNK! LIBERTY STUNK! FREESPRECHEN STUNK!"

*Looks at the state of Russia, China, and Iran* Looks like Fukuyama was right.

No sorry. You lost me from the start. We did not lose the Vietnam War, we abdicated. We beat the HELL out of the damned Communists then folded and walked away in disgrace. You do have a point about the worthless enterprise of introducing self- government to savages. Yes, Ho Chi Minh admired our constitution but became a totalitarian dictator whose NVA chained troops to hilltop trees during their retreat. Then there’s the Middle East, where their idea of civilization is “eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth “. Yes you have a point but don’t tell me we lost the Vietnam War.

Ahh yes! Let's not spread democracy, better to have had countries like South Korea and Japan left to their own devices, right? :)

Jew?

Mostly BS. He has selective logic. He thinks we should not be supporting Ukraine but his examples like Vietnam support our approach. And history has shown he was wrong!