UnCommon Core | Imperial by Design, John Mearsheimer 

Exactly. Took the words out my mouth (but missed one): GENIUS.

@@trumanhw oo

@@trumanhw ooooo

Yea, if only he was in the club that decides the fate of the world :(

I don't know what you're happy about. He's providing a very convincing argument that the world is mostly run by thick-headed idiots.

@@moon1night7 is good to see him him in in a while or not not too too funny to talk talk about about him and his his wife wife and his dad dad and his dad dad said he is in the a lot of of the the people that he is in in Bosnia but they are not not too bad and but he he has is a a lot and I think am so a lot of it his it is is ua yyyyyyyyyand uu but that his

His writing is very clear, too. Almost conversational but covering very complex topics.

Yup

Because he is a Realist, per excellence.

He said in one of his newest that China will not prevail over the US in the years to come, because the US has more experience dealing with the competitors.

He is always right, kinda scary 😳

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same bro. Just watched his lecture on Ukraine 6 years ago and Israel policy. So many of his statements were accurate. Coming back to them is just as you said fascinating

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I think we have all reached the point now where we can easily predict the outcome of any war - it never ends well and usually sows the seeds of the next one - we need to abandon this culture of war and replace it with a culture of peace - it is a simple choice right now - EVOLUTION or EXTINCTION

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and it's all thanks to Common Sense, you are the real hero. 🤣🤣

The main problem I see with geopolitics is that global trade networks empower dictatorships. Nixon setup China to become an economic superpower, and military might is downstream from economic might. Really, what we need to do is rebuild the global economic order such that dictatorships are economically sidelined so that they can not afford militaries that are strong enough to start major wars to threaten the global democratic order. Nixon in this regard was America's worst geopolitical president, as America Uncovered revealed his dealings with China that were setup in the Nixon administration, which helped empower that regime. Returning to the Roosevelt Quarantine/Truman Doctrine era to contain dictatorships economically is the main thrust of my proposals. Reindustrialization of the democratic west to no longer be reliant on natural resources from dictators is another. Following in the ideological footsteps of Garry Kasparov, Paul Massaro, Zelenski, and many others. The grand strategy should be a return to Rooseveltian industrial might. Sanction corporations for doing business with dictators like the CCP, engage in reshoring, secure rare earth materials, and emphasize superconductor production and rebuilding the global supply chain away from China/Russia.

My strategy is a 5th strategy, economic domination of dictatorships. Dictatorships have historically caused the majority of havoc in history, and every effort should be made to economically undermine dictatorships at all points. If we can keep dictatorships from building militaries strong enough to become imperialist threats, then we can have world peace with a hegemonic democratic order. So every effort must be made to prevent dictatorships from building strong militaries, and to do that we need to recognize that military might is downstream from economic might. And that free trade based on the theories of Adam Smith, is actually dangerous when it economically empowers tyrants. Therefore, trade needs to be highly scrutinized with regards to what kind of powers that it benefits. We should have a hegemonic multilateral democratic world order, with Nato in the west and the Quad in the east. Nato to contain imperial Russia, and the Quad to contain imperial China. Both of which are dictatorships.

The Iraq War was a geopolitical mistake on the part of the US. While the US was economically empowering China by allowing US corporations to do massive economic investment in China (a massive strategic mistake, as often reported by China Uncovered and many other channels), the US was fighting pointless wars in Iraq that were strategically unnecessary. The real global threat are dictatorships that are bold enough to engage in imperialist conquest. Russia and China are the two most dangerous nations on the planet. Followed by Iran, Pakistan and North Korea. All of these regimes are the top five concerns. And we need to shift our geopolitical worldview accordingly.

I wasn't that impressed. And I am a fan of John Mersheimer. His style of loudly shouting his points and disdainful delivery reminds me too much of Jordan Peterson. Even when I agree with him I don't agree. On several occasions he makes statements which are flatly misleading. Claiming that Germany had a democratic tradition under the Weimar Republic is so left field and off base that I don't even know where to start with that. No they did not have any sort of tradition like that. Germany was a wreck between the interwar period, and trying to foist a democracy on them was a failure in the face of the Prussian military model which really was the heart of what ran that country. It is to Germany's great credit that they managed to escape that evil model after world war II.

@@refuge42 I guess one could argue that the success in Japan, Germany, S. Korea and so on, is that they didn't have strong religious ideology. In other words, there was a vacuum, and capitalist liberal ideology just looks best in such situations, so they adopt it. Also, most countries the US wanted to spread the democracy to were countries with deep religious ideology, countries around or in Middle East, more or less related to oil.

Thanks @@refuge42

you are N A I V E

You are right that we are not a democracy, we're a Constitutional Republic.

Exactly..I kept thinking the same in my mind all through when guest was speaking. I think we can say we have A FORM of democracy which is experimental and subject to several changes that are needed to move it towards its desired form. Founding fathers never wanted party system and ideally they envisioned people choosing their representatives directly to the offices, both at local as well at federal levels. Instead we have to identify ourselves as belonging to a party even before we vote. Worst part of the story we don't even KNOW our local representatives, where democracy is supposed to take its roots.. There can't be any democracy until people are willing to engage into policies themselves and are willing to enter the ring with ideas. Should be more like entrepreneurship.....

@@tommyodonovan3883 You mean that the US isn´t a Direct democracy, it is a Constitutional republic. That still makes it a democracy where the people get to elect their representatives. It is one of the great mysteries of the world how a nation built on ignorance and still to this day run on ignorance still gets to call the shots...

@@skriuttutt, Murphy's Law

In US corporations have merged with government...

"AMERICA HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S COMING.." (2022)

@@nikko6865 Explain, what is coming

@@silasdjo I disagree with my friend Nikko, on one small point, in that while he believes "it" to be coming, I am absolute in my knowing, that, "it" is already hear. I'm surprised that one here taking in a lecture such as this, need ask what. Today 3/14/22 wheat is up 60%, the gravity of that should pull ones attention, record high fuel prices, run away inflation across the board, all to go only higher. The Biden puppet will be bringing in no one who would dare to identify where the roots of the mal intent that has turned it attention to western civilization have taken their most firm hold. Not that such would be of any benefit at this point. America is already in her grave, and the people who occupy the mass of land that she once occupied are in a choke hold, that incredibly most are unaware of, and every day that people talk of the coming mid-terms and the laughable "red wave" that I hear so much talk of that choke is set a little deeper... There can be no reconciliation

Yes Kihara I agree with you, but you know they would never do that because they would find it so so hard to make so much money that they put into tax havens around the world. Same old story, never changes. They're looking for another endless Afghanistan type conflict I would think minus American troops. Ukraine fits the bill providing the Ukrainians keep on fighting, so the USA and UK keep on providing the weapons and the training, and a couple of $billion to boot.

You suggest "The White House Should Enlist Him As The Foreign Policy Consultant" well, my friend, first of all the White House has no say in the matter, and secondly, Albright - Nuland - Kagan & Co, would waste no time in having you 'taken out'.

We were- check out the interviews on mass formation with Professor Mattias Desmet

Listen to his lecture on Ukraine and NATO its spot on. Again.

@@hamonryechinaski180 Nuclear weapons will not be used recklessly because there is now a new range of weapons called SUPER-FAE warheads and bombs. These are non-nuclear - nuclear range weapons that uses a form of composite high-explosives in such a way that even though they are not nuclear, their firepower and destructive yield is equal to that of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs. But still they are not nuclear. Several years ago there was one slip up mistake from the Russians is that they are trying to figure out on how to properly use high explosive warheads on ICBMS and hypersonic missiles and this only revealed that they had perfected the SUPER-FAE weapons technology already. It is now economical to use these non-nuclear - nuclear-range weapons that are city killers and nation killers while still staying on the side of the law that neither side will be the first one to use nuclear weapons.

You mean the part about Iran not developing nuclear weapons? "I don't believe there is any good evidence..." . Qualifiers like these are well know signs of deception. In other words he is lying and he knew it when he said it. He is also rubbing his hands together to release nervous energy (adapters). I wouldn't trust a single word he says.

Yes, it's as if 1 MILLION Americans had not died at all from Covid

Insightful and Helpful for understanding American foreign policy, very courageous contribution

2021, even better.

And Mearsheimer is still holding up in the first month of 2022 as well. Posted just after all of last week's business with Ukraine: US-Russian talks breaking down, Poland talking about war, Ukraine being cyberattacked, etc.

@@JimArdal one month later and...well, you know.

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“Prodigious ZioNAZI Mearsheimer (Wolf in Sheeps clothing?).

@@davidsalcido383 that word, along with many others, has been so overused and abused that it’s pretty much lost all meaning. Reminds me of Chicken Little and the boy who cried “Wolf”. Nobody listens anymore. Find a new word and back it up with some facts rather than just using it as some lame ad homonym.

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You are spot on. I think that aspect is missing from the lecture. America and the West's strategy is shaped by corporations that want control over vital resources around the world.

He is wrong about some things. The Islamists definitely hate us because of who we are. In fact they hate the people in their own countries who don't share their radical Islamist Worldviews. (Think about ISIS and their treatment of secularist and yazidis).

he's not telling the truth about islamic terrorists. they actually do hate us because of who we are. they said so themselves. they hate us because we're not muslim. see the issue of the Dabiq called, "breaking the cross".

@@TheNemesis442 Agree. Religious fanatics do not follow logic but follow dogma.

He's "so right" because he retroactively changes his opinions on things. At 40:10 he talks about how we convinced Israel to get on board with Iraq. In 2004 (I think that's the year), he wrote an essay about how the "Israel Lobby" had pulled America into Iraq, and now he says the opposite is the case. It's hard to be wrong when you keep moving the goalposts.

10yrs ago he said this.

An important point which you miss is that there have been four presidents during our time in Afghanistan none of them managed to get us out of there until Biden came along. I agree it was sloppy but he got it done and we are out and it's no longer our problem. Yes it could have been done cleaner but Bush x2 didn't do it Obama x2 didn't do it Trump x1 didn't do it. Biden got it done.

@@refuge42 An important point you're missing is that this isn't about attacking/defending any one administration. You don't have to defend Biden here. It isn't about when we pulled out, it's about the mission itself being a failure, the war itself being a loss. You're pretty quick to give Biden credit for pulling the troops out, are you giving Trump any credit for initiating the process and getting the agreements in place to make it happen? John makes a pretty clear case that both parties were onboard with this grand strategy in the middle east. It isn't a Democrat or Republican thing, it's an American thing.

@@jlpowell51 totally agree... and now there's Ukraine to add to the forever war strategy! Here's UK and USA bombs dropping on Yemen, supplying Saudi, and Nato expansion as schiff said a year ago "we want to fight the Russian's on their border"... it's no wonder Putin became an overt war criminal somewhat similar to Johnson, Biden, Macron et al...

@@refuge42 amen 🙏 🙌 👏 ❤

I've said this before and it bears repeating he isn't teaching here he's pontificating. He has a model of the world and he wants to match the world to the model he has in his head. And by the way his book w/ Walt, ' The Israel Lobby' was a masterpiece.

@@refuge42 please elaborate. What points does he leave out in his views?

The opioid crisis explode and there is no make sense remain there protecting the poppy fields. Make more sense develop vaccines.

One of the weirdest beliefs is that secretive government agencies who did evil things in the past just don't do evil things anymore. This belief is based on literally nothing. It's believed because it's comfortable.

He is just sugar coating history. It is another layer of deception.

@@jossmanss7599 who is sugarcoating history?

@@halvardwidere8084 That guy is talking to disinform people of high school level.

@@jossmanss7599 he's a famous professor in international relations

and compelling.

Ayatollah regime has got to go.

Actually Mearsheimer is wrong in his assessment that they don't hate us for who we are. They most definitely do hate us for who we are. In fact the radical Islamists hate their own people who don't share their Worldview. Think about the actions of ISIS on the Yazidis, the Kurds and the secularists. Or the actions of the Pakistan Taliban on girls that go to school. Or the actions of the Iranian mullah regime against secular elements in their society. To dismiss the notion that they don't hate people who don't share their Islamist mindset is radically naive.

Just go to the classes and sit-in and learn. You can major in everything eventually and just say you have whatever degree.

How did you manage to pass Algebra? I'm doing CS right now and am more interested in these topics AND I can't pass Algebra

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LOL!!! it's ok just focus on the content

You're correct. A good camera guy is VITAL to get a good video made. There are many PARTS to having an effective speech or performance. And, a good person who can smoothly FOLLOW the speaker, does this. His speech wouldn't have BEEN as successful, or effective,, WITHOUT THIS. Good observation.

To spread Democracy without values of altruism and civil responsibility it's nuts. You can't give what you don't have You need to conquer with ideas the people who righteously hold the power in those countries to bring democracy will align with. If your force of change is simply your weaponry and your money, you will only attract corruption and become the enemy of true power.

Unmitigated power of the US produces arrogance, superiority, dismissal of others concerns and a feeling of invincibility. That’s why even know we don’t tread lightly regarding the very real nuclear threat that Putin would warn about if Ukraine would get involved with the west, and Russia’s own security concerns

In his big 5 problems he didn't mention anything about China, which is many times more severe than Israel and Palestine, Iran, North Korea, Iraq, or Afghanistan. Even then when we were in the heat of our wars, we should have been focusing on China, or even Russia.

Why is that?

He is wrong. Actually Mearsheimer is wrong in his assessment that they don't hate us for who we are. They most definitely do hate us for who we are. In fact the radical Islamists hate their own people who don't share their Worldview. Think about the actions of ISIS on the Yazidis, the Kurds and the secularists. Or the actions of the Pakistan Taliban on girls that go to school. Or the actions of the Iranian mullah regime against secular elements in their society. To dismiss the notion that they don't hate people who don't share their Islamist mindset is radically naive.

nah... he is very busy lecturing us about racism

You would never have a man like him in the white house- not when 74 mill people think a career conman - who has failed at everything he has done - is a genius businessman . - And i don't know what kind of weed you are talking about - but America is more like a meth house

ask yourself why? it depends in what you have been browsing

The Afghans that worked with the USA were traitors, why would America want these people in their own country? any Afghans that wanted to live in America would've come as refugees instead of ever staying in Afghanistan to fight other Afghans.

The regional hegemon who overpowers his neighbors could eventually threaten the United States or our allies.

“About time you updated yourself to other worthwhile endeavors like Julian Assange, Wikileaks, Ed Snowden and Chelsea Manning - All Nobel Peace ☮️ Prize Laureates overlooked by politics.” 😇

We're 9 years removed from this comment, so I don't know if this person will see my response. But Mearsheimer's point is misunderstood here. He agrees with you. He even mentions a tremendous amount of survey and anecdotal data to support your position. He just said the democracy message was the obvious marketing tactic, because otherwise we're at least admitting partial fault up front.

@@nulltheworm I just saw this a few days ago, and was like, what the hell am I talking about? He is saying exactly what I am complaining about. I guess I was hung up on his point that we are spreading "democracy" which I objected to. That he takes it at face value that was what Bush was doing. But now take his point more broadly, Yes we don't care that much but generally democratic countries are not our enemies, and so in that respect, I guess we "promote" democracy. I really like Mearsheimer. Agree or disagree, he is the ideal academic in many ways.

@@chrisocony The algorithm be bringing us all back together. 😅 But cheers, man.

Yeah, he's just trying to be "politically correct". Packaging it in a way that's acceptable for the American public. If that was me I'd be far more brash in my speech lol then again I have like no filter.

@@chrisocony Actually Mearsheimer is wrong in his assessment that they don't hate us for who we are. They most definitely do hate us for who we are. In fact the radical Islamists hate their own people who don't share their Worldview. Think about the actions of ISIS on the yazidis, the Kurds and the secularists. Or the actions of the Pakistan Taliban on girls that go to school. To dismiss the notion that they don't hate people who don't share their Islamist mindset is radically naive.