narcissisms?

you are right, Chris Bremmer. The chairwoman was disrespectful and took too much time.

cuz john is from United States. Those fools will tear him apart if they knew his theory and he knew it. He had met too many idiots and was actually indifferent with them

That's liberal university education for ya. And I haven't gotten to that part of the video yet.

@@virginialopezmartinez1510 1:45:00 you are welcome

It is unfortunate that John didn't mention any the neo-Nazi activates in Ukraine, which is another cause of this war.

Thank you

باركتك الآلهة 👍🏻👍🏻

Blessings ~

There are so many people out there talking who are less crusty and who are actually talking sense, it's hard to believe that you are watching everything Mearsheimer says.

@@barrynewlander1469 agree, always be sceptical and question stuff. I would never believe one guy verbatim just cos he's popular or famous. Doesn't matter how many titles and books they have. I think this kind content is mostly entertainment, I think the reasons that are closer to the truth will be a peer reviewed article, essay or book that dives deep into this.

True, world needs more putins

He was a hippy

and his tone of voice is so annoying and irritating.

Black shirt and yellow pants. What a existential threat to human intelligence.

@@h.n.3399 Absolutely! So catastrophically arrogant also

All wars are, why else did the usa wage war for over 20 years in Afghanistan?

Totally agree and also oil companies

"War is a Racket", 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler.

For who?

@@loualbano4520 An okay book. If not too shallow.0

Dude in the yellow hot pants? Thanks, I won't watch anymore!🤮🤮🤮

Humble, but also blind. Did you happen to read my comment from 6 days earlier @Deborah Gallo ?

@@michaelforansich8090 No Michael, I never had the pleasure. Where can I find your comment?

_an humble_ * ; )

As Churchill said, "He's a humble man with much to be humble about."

you loved him since u was three an he gave u the old jumbo sausage huh?

He doesn't care, he's used to it, to standing up to his points, and that's why I respect and admire J. Mearsheimer.

they were NED/state dept trolls from some thinktank/astroturf club

@@mynameismynameis666 NED and EED for sure!

@@chrischestarrow9031 you can't counter gaslighting trolls with arguments. they are nazi paid, they don't care about arguments

​@@chrischestarrow9031 marshmallow? this audience is a nice cross section demonstrating the irrelevance of higher education in society today. one would have a hard time finding more clowns at a circus convention.

He gives his subjective opinion to which he is entitled to. Then again you should know better if you live in EU.

@@SabatielFollower as are you friend. Even comments based on an experience are still perspectives. I'm not speaking to what's what I'm simply acknowledging the value of varied perspectives and those who freely acknowledge that's what they are. Not absolutes

@@alexandraapley3303 There is always an insight in one's opinion. To be frank, there isn't much I disagree with your comment ma'am.

The world needs more putins ;)

@@RavingFan only if you will keep them all in your basement ;) jokes aside, world seen too much of likes like Hitler Stalin etc... One Putin is too much already

The usual "hidden hand" people I bet.

@@nwogamesalert YES

Yep. Explains why the West is in the mess it is.

Russia is losing badly in Ukraine and collapsing from within. It is a dying Empire with a population that is going down in numbers and with an insignificant economy. This war is the last gasp of the dying Russian Empire. And I love it. 😃

@@patriley1026 what world are you in?? You sound like a clueless moron to reality. Must be feeding 24/7 on US/West propaganda. Russia has taken control of 20% of Ukraine and is only gaining more. You are a delusional ignorant. Get real. Russia is not only winning on the battlefield its winning on the sanctions, its winning on the ruble, its winning in global support. The big losers are the US puppet states of the EU and the US ($6.00 a gallon), $54+ billion more in debt, inflation, and we’re not even at winter. I suggest you pull your head out of your wazoo and actually inform yourself to reality. There are dozens of highly intelligent geopolitical in the know people that make your comment a complete laughable idiot joke. You tube Scott Ritter, Col. Douglass MacGregor, Col. Richard Black, John Meansheimer, Michael Hudson, Alexander Mercousis, Brian Berletic, Jackson Hinkley, and others. Or stay a clueless ignorant. PS: as for a dying empire on its last gasp of air if you were actually informed and capable of knowing reality that would be the US. The US is a declining breaking down empire

@@patriley1026 "Russia is losing badly in Ukraine and collapsing from within." Funny that all the independent commentators give reasons for the exact opposite conclusion, with only the Big Money etc sources saying otherwise. Remind me where the main Russian retreats have been this month so far.

@@patriley1026 From where are you getting your fake news? CNN, BBC, Fox News or MSNBC?

'Realist School' is just an excuse for academics to get tenure by restating what Thucydides wrote in the Melian Dialogues ;) Nothing changes because human nature doesn't change.

It is not just world powers

Realism is not about appeasement or force to submit to power, you can throw this realism nonsense back to Putin, if you invade Ukraine except get punch back to your face.

Get your facts straight! The real world has started to move away from old destructive patterns based on power competition. The real world cares about sustainability.

There is middle ground between Mearsheimer's nihilistic realism and fantasy world. How else could the free Western democratic world have emerged from thousands of years of authoritarian rule if not by the principle of hope, and the power to change something it sets free?

Lady learn how to ask a question... So frustrating...

They are no intellectuals. They are followers, functionaries, nothing else. They repeat their implanted propaganda like school kids in communist regimes. And they don't allow themselves to see the bigger picture, even when it is directly presented to them. Any disturbance of their implanted picture will be met with fear and aggression.

That guy asking for sources was funny though, he was literally shaking.

@@DirkusTurkess the little skinny Woody Allen guy?

You'd rather they didn't think for themselves..

Many intellectuals are narcissistic and suffer from delusions of granduer, among other things, which gets in the way of rational thought. Hence, the saying, they're so smart they're dumb.

The conclusion of that is that these are not smart people at all. They're institutionalized, academic cretins. Western academics are imbeciles as a rule, and there is only few exceptions to this, like Mearsheimer

Is it really the inability? Are they really smart?

@@a_l_e_k_sandra Not being smart - is inablilty.

Defensive short range weapons. If acted against adolf, no ww2. Lesson from hist. nip it in bud.

@@RavingFan 8 years before Germany invaded Czechoslovakia, which country started killing 16000 German citizens on it's territory? NATO's intervention in Yugoslavia was prompted by Yugoslavia's bloodshed and ethnic cleansing of Albanians. Why didn't NATO intervene to stop Ukraine's killing of It's Russian ethnic minority?

@@ldragon8erBush jr, wasn't brightest. Current Putin resp. carpet bomb Mauriupol (civilians). Soon, EU inundated by hungry Africans (weaponize food). Putin - true humanitarian.

@@RavingFan Putin's a gentle kitten compared to his mentors. " The B-52s were restricted to bombing suspected Communist bases in relatively uninhabited sections, because their potency approached that of a tactical nuclear weapon. A formation of six B-52s, dropping their bombs from 30,000 feet (9,100 m), could "take out"... almost everything within a "box" approximately five-eighths mile (1.0 km) wide by two miles (3.2 km) long. Whenever Arc Light struck ... in the vicinity of Saigon, the city woke from the tremor.. Neil Sheehan, war correspondent, writing before the mass attacks to heavily populated cities including North Vietnam's capital.[25] "

Mariupol wasn't carpet bombed. Ukraine forces set up firing points in apartment buildings, so during fights against them those particular buildings got damaged

I like your comments!

But one question... if the US policy of NATO expansion towards Russia is "crazy" then it would seem that there is a hidden hand behind it! And that hidden hand suggest itself as the elephant in the room which is seldom if ever talked about; that being the elite agenda for a NWO and "World Government"

Bravery? He is completely confused and his values are misaligned.

There is nothing brave in repeating disproven theories. Once Ukraine offered neutrality (or earlier when Germany blocked NATO expansion) Putin's demands should be over. But they aren't. He lost on 24feb, 'realist' theories were disproven. So? He didn't reflect. He changed into 'training with NATO instructors makes you a de facto member - absurd!!!

I don't see him as brave. I see him as a knowledgeable man, willing to speak out, make himself unpopular to those that are, 'Supporting the current thing', and having a broader understanding of situations. Whether it be enpowered by money or power, (Very closely linked), or by politics, the situation is far more complex than the so-called msm journalists appear to realise. The msm just replace the history of something with their own narrative on the side of the majority, perpetuated by their own loop of ignorance and affinity to them that are in charge at that time. Knowledge is power.. more power to him!

Many can but they can't stand up to the establishment view

@@PeterXiao1 true

You are exactly right Eric. Mearsheimer sounds like a Bowery Boy who grew up to become a professor. lol

Actually there is nothing complex here. It may only seem so if one believes in the Western media lies.

"his theories on what is going on in Ukraine have yet to be challenged", he's just drawing back the curtains a bit to draw support for his favored cold war 2 with china. He's totally up for a proxy war w/ china using taiwan, and only differs from the neocons in looking to ally w/ russia in that nuclear conflict.

How about including Vietnam war?

Start with the end of WW2 at least.

Glad to hear it. Some of us who are older lost trust in consecutive US administrations foreign policy a lot longer ago. I'm UK and feel the same way about my ruling elites who have been poodles to US foreign policy for a very long time.

So wmd in iraq wasn't enough? Better late than never I suppose.

What is really sad it that the fools in Washington are spending billion on Ukraine, and they are not spending a dollar in US wellfare. Take a look to the streets for example or the state of the cities. These guys are mad, history will judge them as a curse for humanity, they will be doomed in hell

Excellent comment 👌🏻

@@virginialopezmartinez1510 thank you

Aubrey W Wursten, I agree with your comment. The guy with the orange shorts would be a foe. The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis is the main move into Ukraine. I think Sweden and Finland joining NATO is too far to be a military threat.

He loses nothing to tell the truth at his age

His view has no nuance, and he seems to admit as much in the Q&A. He's happy to be wrong when the archives open; very non-falsifiable premise. Worse because it sounds like a justification for invasion.

He is intellectually bankrupt, tnę number of factual misrepresentation is surprising. His theories fell apart when Russia invaded, despite obvious no perspective for Ukraine joining NATO. Now he changed narrative claiming that Ukraine training their defense capabilities (after already being invaded in 2014) was somehow informal joining of NATO. And somehow a threat for Russia. It's embarrassing to watch

@@wojteks4712 Don't watch. But war is going on. Good enough evidence.

Thank you

thanks Carl, you are an esteemable citizen of KZfaq and the internet.

at 16:40 the lecturer ignores Putins speach a week ago, when he explained to young enterpreneurs in Russia his goal of collecting lands like Peter the great did.

@@paul7bana you ignored to watch the entire lecture.

@@jeremyperala839 Thank you for the kind words! :-D

Try the Duran

I stopped watching msm news on Ukraine War. It seemed like I was in a room full of snotty 14 year olds.(Isn't there an age limit for commenting on KZfaq?)🤦🏼‍♀️

@@regant.cameron8237 Excellent channel

CNN viewers still under the influence

Well said - excellent points.

The thing is.. What are you doing about it? I see you writing about it, like as if your motivated by your exceptionalism's, such as insidiousness, actually, you would help us get that monkey off our back?

Good point - what would you Americans do if you were in the shoes of Ukraine, or Poland? Or the comment here only talks of the shoes of US, China or Russia? Visit Russia and see for yourself.

Not quite sir! Putin is a disgusting, rotten dictator bent on enslaving Ukraine as he's robbed Russia of democracy, stolen wealth from his own people and murdered journalists and dissenters. Also I don't agree with professor Mearsheimer that Putin's goals have changed as the war in Ukraine has continued: Putin always fancied himself as a Peter the Great expansionist. In Putin's latest speech, he expresses his vulgar contempt for President Lincoln's Gettysburg address paying tribute to terrible sacrifice to secure the noble goal of securing our nation for the freedom of the people. Consider the inclusion and freedom of our black americans and the unified might of our country to help defeat the Nazis in World War II. Putin fears the power of the US on the minds of people who do not want to be the slaves of dictators.

Wtf are you on, mate? This is how we've been acquiring knowledge all along: somebody proposes an explanation/theory for something and the rest of us have to attack that explanation to see if it hold to the scientific scrutiny. John is doing what every intellectual has been doing for centuries and I don't really understand what's so heroic about it? 😄

@@suspendedtwice4sayingrasis261 those evil gremlins turned up to quietly listen in their little gremlin seats and ask timely questions. Didn't you see the pebbles they were throwing?! Think we watched a different video tbh

@@Nick-rh4bx I think we watched the same video. The only difference is that I wasn't having a psychotic episode in that very moment.

That is so true, what you said. It seems so hard for this audience just to step a bit sideways from the widely accepted theories.

Read my comment above ☝

Whilst you are right about the failings of US democracy it is not just the US promoting democracy over authoritarian dictstorship. People like democracy. Just ask the East Germans who risked getting shot by the regime Putin was an active member of. And he was aware of growing unrest in his own country. Like Belarus !! Mearsheimer puts together a logical sequence but does cherry pick his quotes. He fails to place any importance on the false claims of genocide and liberating Ukraine from the nazi rule. These were in Putin’s own words his reason for his ”special military operation”

Thank you for this comment, spot on.

Based on what little of Mearsheimer's drivel I have subjected my senses to, I can only imagine the nature of the commentary. Hopefully Mearsheimer was miserable and will go home and rethink his life.

Good point, they are in fact laying down their own confirmation bias and not asking relevant questions.

@@ditshegomosienyane7252 which yet again illustrates the sad truth about how education does not foster critical thinking; in fact, if we go by signaling theory of education, it rather actively suppresses it

The organizer of this talk is a complete failure. How can you have a few long questions asked in a row. None of the question could be answered properly. And most of those questions were temper tantrums. Especially the old bearded guy in the back, that was pathetic.

A wise man went to enlighten a few incredibly uninformed and biased Soros-funded i.d.i.o.t.s. They didn't believe him.

Those asking questions and stressing on the Democracy, what has democracy given? Isn't Democracy that gave Colonization of the whole world? Looting of the wealths from there? Genocide on those countries? Recently Iraq, Libya etc., it is not the democracy, it is in the name of democracy, all these evil deeds are done, is that ok for these questioning professors if it is done in the name of democracy? US is just the extension of Roman, British, Spanish empire and the are guilty of the same crimes.

A superb assessment of conflicts.

Common sense

Big bossism has not yielded any result in Vietnam,Somalia,Syria,Iraq,Libya,Cuba,Afghnistan,Russia, and india(Bangla desh war,7the fleet threat),&North Korea.

The outcome of war is always disastrous for the losers and sometimes for the winners. There are no examples of any war where “little attention is paid to its causes”.

B-B-B-BUT PUTLER IS AFRAID(!!) OF DEMOCRCY!!! 😭

Putin is not allowing Ukraine to become NATO's member. I don't know how you equal this to "democracy". In fact I can't even be sure that US or EU are the best example of successful democracy, if you recognize the cancel culture, the manipulation to their own population and bullying to others (Kosovo, Afghan, Syria, Lydia, Iraq, and the endless list of countries being sanctioned )

@Aditya Chavarkar At last! A rational adult mind!

@Aditya Chavarkar Is the west “democratic”? Is it democratic to vote for a candidate that is pre-selected to favor the interests of global finance capitalism to the detriment of working people? Do people believe their vote matters over that of the wealthy? Is that democracy, sold to the highest bidder?

@Aditya Chavarkar Russia has plenty of candidates to vote for. But because Putin rebuilt their country and saved, the Russians love him and keep voting for him. Meanwhile what do you have in the US? 2 parties that are controlled by the same deep state institutions. And everyone that wants to offer an alternative gets bombarded with lawsuits. Is this real democracy? It isn't even that the Americans like any of their choices. It's always a choice between plague and cholera. And the person that gets the most funding by these oligarchical institutions wins. Is this real democracy? If this is real democracy then I'd be also afraid of it. I'd prefer a leader that acts in the will of his people to better his country. And not to suck it dry

Ritter, MacGregor, redacted, Jason Hinkle, Jimmy Dore. Am I missing anyone else? That's not a lot!

Jimmy went nuts.alas

her management of the questions was a disaster, like a schizo- fatty at the buffet, just loading up plates with flavors that don't match, and heaping portions of dishes you've already tasted.

She was spot on in calling Mr. M. (Putine's mouth piece). Existential Threat INDEED! NATO was formed to protect civilization against an existential threat - Russy-a. And NATO (not a country) is a CLUB of democratic capitalist rule of law states that is spreading across Europe and Putine is scared to death of what HIS PEOPLE will do to him when they see a prosperous free democratic Ukraine at their border. They will do a Caucescu on Putine and his mafia gang!

@@thor9563 full of sound and fury, yet signifying nothing.

No respect whatsoever. A bigger person would have admitted they were wrong by now …

Sadly the satanic US leaders are blood thirsty who want to flirt with Worl war 3. Russia is superpower grave yard: Napoleon, Hitler and now liberal democracy. Vive la Russie ! ! !

@@looper3117 A person like you perhaps

Totally agree. His whole premise has been proven wrong. As has Angel Merkel’s time in office. Both providing a foolish an dangerous revision of history and misunderstanding of putin and his regime.

Mearsheimer is just your generic cold warrior looking to start up cold-war 2.0 w/ china. His only real disagreement with Neocons is that he thinks we should ally with russia in that war.

They won't let that happen that would risk ending capitalism

Well, the Comedian is everywhere. Speaking like a parrot, I mean a puppet, to naive audiences.

@@Bright-It Who’s the puppet???

It seems to me that no-one is down on Russians, just Putin and his regime.

Ah, back in the day before Russian art and literature, film, were banned. And when people actually read and understood.

hungery is in eastern europe, same as serbia, we are not west

@@nikolic-sq5rx You are so wrong. 1. Hungary was never eastern europe, its central europe. 2. West here refers to a cultural entity not geography

Me too!

Ask China about that

In 30 yrs, Ukraine not allowed nato membership.

I remember Barack said that the sanctions destroyed Russia and brought it to its knees in 2014, and in 2022 it turns out that Russia controls everything

What are you getting at? Oil prices are shooting up as blowback from the clever sanctions policy and economic warfare against Russia

@@ebflegg No oil is up because demand is up and supply is down, while we wait for climate change to change, Russia is annexing the Alaskan oil fields, comrade....

What is the name of the Writer?

Yes! Yes! Yes!. One of the questions was asked by a professor who kept on pontificating "democracy". Democracy for who? What everyday person in Europe has had their lives improved from NATO actions in Libya or Afghanistan? At best in Europe we get social democracy yet still its a small band of elites serving US empire that are running our foreign policies.

@@skepticmonkey6923 Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corps and UN weapons inspector in Iraq, made exactly the same point. Google his numerous KZfaq videos

@N M please explain

His lecture is based on misrepresentation of facts. His theories are debunked and narrative fell apart after Russian invasion, when Putin received all guarantee that Ukraine won't be part of NATO and still invaded. He is intellectually bankrupt. Check recent Munk debate where he was crushed by Radek Sikorski

Couldn't agree more. Western liberalism pollutes the mind and divorces one from reason and logic. Westerners live in a ideological bubble devoid from the realities of the planet and the rest of humanity.

its not western thought as it had not been western for two centuries. It is banker backed Hegelian thought.

@Unpaved Man I had to stop the vid & look at comments bc she was going on and on and on....

Very disappointing from John. Putin is an unstable man. All the politicians and journalists that were either threatened, poisoned or shot and he says we must take him on his word. Talks about NATO being an existential threat but never mentions the lie about chasing men around with Nazi tattoos . Remember that's why this so-called special operation was initiated. John it's time you be honest. Putin only cares about his position, his dictatorship. Losing tens of thousands of troops just to maintain his leadership.and power. A quite clear farcical system where he always is re-elected almost unopposed.

'we have now sunk to the depth where restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men'

@@dmitry811 Where's the lie? Forward it to Prof Mearsheimer and he'll change his arguments.

She was dead -on, as well as ALL of the follow-up questioners who put Mr. M. in the proper place - on the WRONG side of the issue. BOOM!!!!

@@thor9563 ? I'm not sure what point you're even attempting to make with your comment, given how poorly written it is -- but if your intent is to imply that somehow Mearsheimer is wrong and these globalist neocon/neoliberal war-hungry lunatics are on the "right side" of the issue, you're as delusional as they are.

At least we got some biography from Mearsheimer when he answered her questions - and a Geopolitics 101 master class!

She also said that Putin thinks that everything that is not Russian is Nazi, which is just not been aware of basically anything.

​@@SrJurado When she said that, I figured that she's either embarrassingly uninformed or intentionally spewing propaganda. There is no middle ground with such a ridiculous comment.

He is brilliant but his discourse is no different than that of other intellectuals who carry opposing points of view. Furthermore, his argument is over ten years old and full of holes - quite frankly it needs an update and possible pivot. “Existential crisis” and Putin quotes are getting tiring.

@@nuttybrownie and completely wrong. It's the same as the US going into Iraq for WMDs. Misleading to get the oil. Donbas has oil and gas reserves equal to Russia.

Today, July 2nd, the world can celebrate Roswell's 75th anniversary. Yes, dear people, that was no balloon, no crashtest-dummies, no UFO. But logically a manned star spaceship with so-called gray occupants. Discoverer extraterrestrials on on 1/17/95. Johann Zdebor

even the way this question was phrased says a lot about its author I urge anyone in doubt to visit Ukraine, Russia and Donbass areas (in that order) to understand more about what's really happening

It's pretty cringe, they think they're all so intelligent when actually they're no more intelligent than you or I.

As a theoretical physicist in academic research, my ideal was always Richard Feynman. No nonsense, to the point, and if you can't explain the most complicated topic imaginable to a non expert with something like a graduate degree, it's your understanding that is lacking, not his. That, plus I like to imagine the sum total of all hourly wages in the room as a clock on the wall, and a question ought to cost less than a grand.

@@fooanonymous Now that I've found a very decent thread, I feel better, and can go. My thanks to the three of you.

Unfortunately, UK is playing the role of 'bulwark' of the aggressive USA foreign policy in Europe and lectures deviating from the government narrative will not be welcome. Freedom of speech in UK is very limited.

Check out Duran channel and Alexander Merocouris - their analysis is impeccable, Alexander (based in UK) often refers to John M

Just a few years ago The Guardian, not exactly a bastion of the free speech itseelf, was reporting on the dangers of the spread of Nazizm in Ukraine, and Azov camps for children brainwashing them with FarRight, White Power, Nazi ideology.

@@Nick_S0 I call the UK the USA’s tethered goat!

@@postmanlondon ACTUALLY it is the other way around, USA is a nothing berger, just the goffa...... THE ROYALS hold all the aces. Pity USA /americans dont stop talking long enough to do something constructive to stop this BS.

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The one questioner was a total prick. I wish he answered his question right away in better detail

Absolutely agree with you, Michael. I have watched a lot too. This lecture must be heard by all western leaders. Maybe something positive will click in their brains.

a lecture full of pro-putin's bullshit

Alexander Mercouris at 'The Duran' also gives very insightful up-to-date comments.

I agree.

Yes!

Honestly, I was not impressed. He cherry picks narratives and oversimplifies to the level that his conclusions are just useless. I can only admit that the people asking questions at the audience were not up to match. Professor defines imperialism and security concerns in very narrow sense, which is far from modern understanding. I would recommend you a recent Munk debate with professor, where the opposition came much better prepared. History teaches us that a world, in which powerful countries can do whatever is not a peaceful one.

Yeah that guy was weird tbh

@@justynakowal8943 I believe he deliberately avoided the modern understanding of imperialism because if he did, Uncle Sam would very much fit into that definition.

@@andrewzulu5101 What is the 'modern definition' of imperialism if not aggressively building an empire through conquest?

@@andrewzulu5101 both Uncle Sam and Russian bear would very much fit into it and probably to some extent also Chinese panda. On the other hand, I do not think there is a single country, which is imperialistic in old terms of territorial conquest nowadays.

Not even close to a true statement and no, I'm not from the United States. 1. A vast percentage of the United States don't believe in God and their leftism is obviously not of religion or god worship. 2. Most actual religious people of the U.S., people like me, could care less what the rest of the world does. All I care about is my community, my freedom, my family and our land. 3. What aggression the west is involved in is done by a small minority of politicians and bankers and it's on the Global scale that these decisions are made whether you or I like it or not. 4. I truly believe other nations should get their own shit together, I wouldn't pay dime to taxes to be involved in other countries affairs for any reason. 5. I suppose being Canadian I really am an American just not of the US and my biggest concern is the shit hole Commie Government in my own country and the fight we have coming. So no, I don't give a shit about the destinies of other nations, frankly they can rot in hell, starve, succeed, live in caves, be socialist or communist or whatever they want and if their people aren't happy, which I'm sure they aren't, they should fight back, not us. If your Governments or Dictators make shitty business deals with us that's your problem the same way if I make shitty deal with a local businessman that's my problem. All people should be 100% self sufficient and working their own land, there shouldn't be any dependence on anyone and therefore no opening for evil to extort you, all people should suffer the consequences of their actions and they should be responsible for themselves and they should pass or fail by their own devices, everywhere should be a meritocracy. 6. Right, well Europe couldn't stop fighting each other in a major war every twenty years or so before the US reluctantly entered the second world war, so, it's really been a pretty good run. The world brought the US into the fighters circle, the US wanted to just stay home and take care of themselves, for the most part, before that conflict. Careful what you ask for. 7. This is a tricky one, I completely believe that all Governments are now evil but I still love the way of life we live or expect to live in North America and anyone who doesn't is an evil prick who just wants to control others. 8. Take for example a society that subjugates their woman, beats them like animals and kills them if someone else rapes them, well, that's just rapist/serial killer society in my opinion but if that's what you build it's all yours. Now, I am a right winger but I don't own any women in my life and I don't make decisions for them, they are free like everyone else to do what or even who they want, the consequences of their actions belong to them not me. You see, what I'm getting at is that most other cultures and nations out there are run by or Governed by people who's only desire is to control others and if that's your desire then you're evil. Again, stay in your dog house and/or own yard and I could care less but the problem with those desiring more all the time, just more and those who desire to control others can't resist stepping off their own yard and trying to control everyone else around them. We should get rid of all authority institutions everywhere and if we end up fighting like tribes in a field so be it, at least the casualties are low, they don't effect the entire world, they don't poison the entire world forever and the matter is settled quickly. 8. As far as exceptionalism goes well, they do win a lot of medals at the Olympics and that's because they understand that you should work hard for success and success is a good thing. As a Canadian I can't stand our attitude of participation is all that matters and everyone gets a medal, or sportsmanship or our reputation for being "nice". Screw that, I compete hard to win and second is first of the losers, I do the same thing at work and only losers and whiners and lazy people expect something for nothing. So, overall, the U.S. has been exceptional in many ways. The only civilization on earth to guarantee rights in a Constitution to their people and worshipping a God is up to each individual,,,,it's a choice. Don't you worry, the leftists are trying to turn into a shithole Commie Dictatorship and you should hope they lose because those kind of people never run out of steam when it comes to butting into other people's business.

So, and now this means that Putin can do the same and he shouldnt be condemned for it? Putin is the same type of subhuman like Bush.

"the Americans believe they've been entrusted by God to decide the fate of other people" . of course you need to understand that the Military Industrial Complex is America's God.

America has its back against the wall. They owe the Chinese so much that they cannot and do not want to repay them. The new alliance that has been formed between China, Russia and India is taking advantage of the opportunity to snatch the rank of world reserve currency from America. That's why the war in Russia, to weaken Putin, which didn't work. (Of course, they don't dare to go to China and India is to become the new production site.) It is currently unclear where the journey will lead. It is not yet clear who has the best tactics, strategies and weapons. What did Sting sing: I hope the Russians, Chinese and Indians love their children too.

@@whiteflag1000 -"The new alliance that has been formed between China, Russia and India is taking advantage of the opportunity to snatch the rank of world reserve currency from America" It is far more the case that the US dollar is totally hellbent on self-destruction than anyone taking advantage of an opportunity.

well they are in Florence Italy, you seem clueless to that.

Scott Ritter in a recent video described "good, decent" Americans as the most ignorant people in the world. However, he added, "they wake up at the pump".

It is the power of the media to sway opinions and install propaganda into the human mind. To me this proves one thing, Europe STILL longs for war. Europe should be disbanded of all weapons and military organizations for the benefit of the world

You're thinking right. It is astonishing.

Mearsheimer is American. The audience is in Europe. So do you mean Mearsheimer is lost? or Europe is lost???? Maybe you are lost?

That’s not difficult…

The west did not want an war. They want to encourage free speech, human rights and democracy. This is not in any autocrat's interest of course. But this gives them absolutely no right to drop bombs , shoot missiles and invade.

Dont matter who wanted it. All that matters is that Ukraine wins it. END OF STROY

You're responsible for your own invasion, Natasha. Quit with these ridiculous delusions. You attacked Ukraine for rejecting Putin and his criminal regime.

@ Too much copium may be hazardous to your health.

Hi Natasha, I agree with your point, why was NATO not disbanded after the fall of the Eastern Block Countries. This should be show in every school around the world

We already hated you before this gentleman was born...! 😀😀😀 Sorry to say!

Hes makin up alot of bullshit

@@harrybaulz666 Please enumerate them, so that we will have the opportunity to debunk it.

What he says is true. The biggest risk right now is the West doubling down as the war is not going well for Ukraine. Could easily spiral. Better to call it what it is and cut losses.

@@harrybaulz666 Idiot

the cream of the crop

Professor Erik Jones (in the audience here) said that it was democracy that Putin was worried about rather than attack from Nato. Mearsheimer may not be so exactly right.

@@julianbiggs2220 Putin is worried about Putin. Full stop

@@julianbiggs2220 Worried about democracy brought on the wings of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis, sure.

Putin is on the side of Russia, Russians know it, and they are behind him. Given the most blatant CIA coup in US history, in Ukraine in 2014, when we overthrew an e l e c t e d government and installed a puppet, no one in the west should claim the US stands for democracy, and no one should claim we are standing with Ukraine. In the last thirty years the US has left whole countries in smoking ruins. It is unfortunate those who plan those wars and tell the lies which justify them are not routinely charged and prosecuted for them. This failure condemns us to repeat those greatest of all international crimes.

@@julianbiggs2220 I don't think Putin would be scared of democracy he would just have to view what the US calls democracy to realise its an oligarchy just the same as Russia and Ukraine.

Once upon a time, such men were in charge of the United States. We were successfully invaded though, and our government hijacked over 100 years ago. Now we're the puppet of the International banking cartel that has it's roots in Europe and the very 'nobles' the colonists fled and then rebelled against hundreds of years ago. (to put it simply)

Smart people don't end up in charge. Dumb people don't trust them.

@@Carubidul In fact, dumb and/or naive people don't realize that very smart and very evil people are in charge...

Incorruptible people rarely run nations

BECAUSE USA is run by demonic aliens who dont care a twat, all the destroyed countries, the scamdemics, the bio weapson, Ukraine, next they will have Australians fighting Chains for the piss weak USA who can fight its own fights.

very well said, may the Donbass live free

Thank you, MeesNukk, for this comment. I also noted the ignorance--and, I would add, the snide arrogance, of Mearheimer's academic interlocutors. None of them showed even a rudimentary understanding of Ukraine's post-independence history, of the disastrous socio-economic consequences of the US-and-NATO-engineered Maidan coup, which put the state's security apparatus into the hands of Neo-Nazis, or of the aggressive US geopolitical project which has made Ukrainians into tools and victims of a proxy war. (I am, by the way, an academic, with experience of teaching and research in several European countries as well as my own.)

I do not believe you. My husband is from Ukraine and Putin has been trying to crush Ukraine since he was installed by the oligarchs.

You clown

@Buddy Rojek are you a bot or you walk with the closed eyes and ears? I live in EU, my wife is Ukrainian (Russian speaker), even here the Ukrainian migrants are complaining about how she speaks. I don't even want to imagine in Lvov or Ivano-Frankivsk. So please don't mislead people be kind.

One acquaintance of mine is trying to get a degree in social sciences in very same Florence, if not in that same institution. Well... his perception of this matter is also... very misguided, so to speak. That's the state of social sciences these days.

This guy was a total catastrophy

Position of that guy in the back of room is opening eyes on how social science is under the treat in the world of media domination. He was so much aggressive and completely not open to anything contradicting to his opinion.

@@VasilyKiryanov just because one hot-head made a fool doesnt invalidate the whole social science field. Thats why IR constructivists came about; with a mix of social sciences evidence based theories which were in the dead-angle of Realists. Mersheimer was very polite in not dismissing social sciences and even admited not beeing keen on nuances...wich is kinda important when doing research.

Such a clown, he sounded like he was gonna cry

More like 85%

You're probably right , Haldir.

@@haldir3120 90%

The neocons are all Zionist, we know who they really care about

Not only not acknowledged, he has been shunned and ostracized for speaking the truth.

Same with real, unpalatable experts like to sorely missed Stephen F. Cohen.

The Neocons ARE the reason for the policies of Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden. The Neocons salivate at the promotion of war especially with Russia. But they will never risk their lives fighting any war. Instead they are the architects of war and get their power from wars that others fight.

@@elmersbalm5219 Check Scott Ritter

Go for it ESSM. I went back to school at 42 and got a masters degree.

You don't need a jeweler's glass to see this 'gem' is fake. The only 'realism' I saw in his speech was the reality that NATO is 'encroaching' upon the doorstep of an autocratic thug and he's been whining about it. NATO was conceived by democracies to counter an existential threat Russy-a. Now NATO and a liberated Ukraine will indeed be 'lil putine's 'existential threat'. BBBBBWWWWAAAAHAHHAHAH!!!

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@UC0S7C1Q50Pxfc0JrvD7jcPA yes I often do this too. I am not as well spoken as John Mearsheimer. All I can tell you is this mans voice is very important and very much worth to be heard. If you have the desire to be a well informed individual, I highly recommend you to take the time and listen this lecture. The world suffers the lack of this kind of sanity.

yeah! im looking for the other side. snarky attitudes, but good questions.

Indeed, that is the mark of an academic, par excellence - a professor.

I would like you to expound on this, please. I feel l am ignorant on what you are speaking about...

Hollywood has become nothing more than a propaganda machine for the woke and others who want the collapse of western civilization.

@@robertrinaldi8748 couldn’t agree with you more

I am a fan as well, because of his intelligent analysis of the Ukraine/Russia war, and his stance against the Israeli government in regard to Gaza and the West Bank. I don't understand, however, his opinion on China as "the biggest threat to the US." I don't want to trade one country to be at war with to another.

@@barbh1 Again, Professor Mearsheimer is being honest. It is not about human rights. It is about being number one and only China can challenge America's number one status. Might is right, always was, is and will be.

Democracy without might is native Americans, Australians and Canadians. Idealist versus Realist ... Idealist lives is fantasy ... and hypocrisy.

Other "experts" in the lecture are politicos hiding under the guise of academics. Many have an affiliation with NATO. Erik Jones' Boy Scout comments about Putin and democracy are laughable as DC is a town of 12,000 lobbyists who spend 3.5 billion a year buying politicians off in a country that its own Federal Reserve state that 1% has 32% of the wealth while the bottom 90% of the country has 30.2%. Democracy.

He's a true Beast, luv this guy.