Why Kamala Harris couldn't 'solve' Ukraine - Professor John Mearsheimer
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Professor John Mearsheimer joins Freddy Gray to discuss the wars in Ukraine and in Gaza, and the influence of both on the US election. The Israel-Gaza conflict has led to internal divisions within the democratic party, how will Kamala Harris deal with this? And as the Russia-Ukraine conflict shows no signs of ebbing, what does he see as the west’s role in the war?
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Many minutes have been clearly cut from this interview, especially in the beginning when Mearsheimer was answering questions about Gaza.
@@khaledkhaled4299 just an innocent coincidence, like the Epstein prison cameras.
They know we know they lie.
They know we know they lie.
Perhaps, it feels to me that production-value issues have been compromised at the Spectator. Sad about the sound and video glitches, a John Mearsheimer interview is typically very informative.
@@khaledkhaled4299 yet they used Gaza in their title. SMH, I’m glad they at least kept his description that Israel is committing genocide.
Very dodgy by the spectator
Anyone else noticed how Spectator cut out a lot of what the professor is saying?... Wonder why 😅
Probably cut out a lot of the boring parts.
So the idiots who comment against him could argue he made incomplete arguments.
Censorship at work
I agree that some judicious editing has been done here. It illustrates the dangerous extent to which viewers in the West are being sold a false narrative on this conflict. Prof. Mearsheimer knows this subject inside out, and he's revealing some uncomfortable truths here that generally don't appear in our media. Twenty to thirty years ago, The Spectator was essential reading, a brilliant and often brutally honest read. It has been a sad decline ever since. Nevertheless, well done on getting this interview with the professor. But please stop editing out stuff that doesn't fit your narrative.
@@SandyGalbraith it doesnt make any sense whatsoever for you to mention the "west", there are a myriad of Western channels who give John ample airtime without any edit. The Spectator is not representing the West . They are just a dishonest media outlet of which there are many.
This interview is pathetic. There's cuts everywhere, seems like they took advantage of the editing room and choose to leave out the real substance of what Mearsheimer said. Thumbs down.
@@arielzajac Where can I get the full interview?
@@ZerefCifer707when it looks like a dog and it barks like a dog … it is probably a dog.
If it is true that the Spectator tried to influence the direction of the conversation through editing and you want to understand where the professor is coming from ……….. I suggest an easy solution. You can find Mearsheimer musings on this war all over the internet.
You can also find independent compliance monitoring reports on Minsk agreements on the internet. If you are seriously interested in forming your own opinion then I suggest that you search wider than just listening to the professor.
Read the Putin essay. That is a good starting point.
@arielzajac It seems like there is much substance to me on the Ukraine-Russia conflict - Mearsheimer spends most of the interview repeating the point that Russia does not want Ukraine in NATO and the West repeatedly ignoring Russia's preference. Kind of beats the point to death actually. What other topic or substance is missing that the editors cut?
I doubt the professor feels this way.
But Polish government is doing anything but provoking Russia all the time because Polish politics is driven by the West unfortunately.
The USA just needs a strategic withdrawal from the MIddle East completely.
Don't count on democrats for that!
If it’s anything like the withdrawal from Afghanistan, God help us.
YES, let the MUSLIMS & THE JEWS "duke it out" at the "O.K.Corral" --- we'll get to watch it on TV ! ! !
39:49 the host exposed one of Spectator’s critical reputation destroying flaws.
The power of the editors.
meaning?
@@chaseanderson999 "Indeed the US efforts to subvert the soviets there backfired spectacularly...[edit sound]"... he was referring to the CIA creating cells in Afghanistan that were based on religious extremism and that eventually overtime morphed into something that gave birth to Osama bin Laden.
@@satoshi1137 It feels awkward to say it morphed into his birth. They funded and armed him directly. There are a ton of articles from the period celebrating the man as a freedom fighter for peace.
So we armed those extremists to hurt RS, that backfired.
We armed the rebels in Syria to hurt RS, that backfired spectacularly.
Gee I wonder how arming fashie extremists like ayz-ovv to hurt RS will work out.
@@satoshi1137except it was Pakistan picking and choosing religious extremist groups when allocating US funds but don't let that major fact ruin a terrible narrative...
@@avinaabexcept he is referring to a completely different year where the US did DIRECTLY back the Taliban against the soviets but don't let that fact change your self-indulgent and self-righteous snarkiness when responding.
John Mearsheimer - the greatest geopolitical commentator of our time!
no
Are you serous?
Says you
He is, certainly in my opinion, a clear-eyed rational thinker. His books are terrific and is the sort of professor more colleges could use. Having said that, the Spectator interviewer is wanting.
@@786Plotinus Guys, get a room!
Two minutes on Palestine.
@tomlewis4888. Hamas surrender and it's all over... is why no serious person talks about Gaza.
@commonwunder do you not consider mersheimer serious?
@@tonyclifton2230 His career was prematurely ended because of his opposition ( +book ) to the Israeli lobby. His motive now is purely revenge. Most serious people realise this.
@@commonwunderLmao. It's not over. God will judge Israel.
@@tonyclifton2230 His career was prematurely ended because of his opposition ( +book ) to the Israeli lobby. His motive now is purely revenge. Most serious people realise this.
Why is it so difficult for people to understand they don't want NATO as a neighbor
@@mseesea what Nato neighbour has experienced problem with Nato??? Russia in neighbour with Norway (Nato country)
You're right -- it's very easy to understand. Any country that wants to invade another doesn't want that second country to be part of a wider alliance.
Especially when that alliance includes the United States.
It's so simple.
You don't get to choose your neighbours!
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Geeez, what are we doing here Freddy? This is straight up amateur hour. Audio artefacts every minute, audio breaking whenever it's switched between you and Prof. Mearsheimer, and the audio is completely gone for a few seconds towards the end. Did you have 2 cameras? Did you use one for Mearsheimer and the other for both and then zoomed on yourself? You gotta write down a playbook or at least a checklist for this stuff, man.
Nonetheless, it was a good interview and you asked good, challenging questions.
@@FlaakkI thought the sound was muted in parts for editorial reasons, I mean censorship.
@@nadimovitch9237 Both. It was both amateurish (they used two different mics, in which the interviewer picked up background noise, but Johns didn't) and I think it was censored in the end. Hard to belive they actually censored themself, but I think they did. Also the cam angle should have been different on John, as he looks to much away from where the camera sits.
Twitch streamers are more professional.
Brit: "But what if Afghanistan is left open to Russian and China?"
Mearsheimer: "Who gives a sh*t." Looks at Brit like he's some sort of clueless hall-monitor nerd. Cracks open a beer.
38:07
The Ukraine is important. John has talked about Gaza extensively since October. Does anybody here believe that there needs to be a peace agreement in the Ukraine? There does in Gaza obviously. I’d like to remind everyone that the doomsday clock is 90 seconds to midnight. What does that say about the state of affairs on planet earth?
I have listened and read the Professor over the last 18 months.
He is very informative and polite. 👏👏
CAIR much worse than anything AIPAC does
and wrong on every count.
... but wrong ...
@@FirstLast-rh9jw How is he wrong, everything he says is based on facts & history.
The best neo Soviet propaganda on the web until now. Mearsheimer is unbeatable!
90% of the doscussion is on russia/ukraine yet the title pertains to gaza.
Gotcha
Dissing Israel is 'Politically Correct' .... Dissing NATO 's behaviour in Ukraine is not 'Politically Correct' .... Simples.
It is?....I think they must have changed the title, since it doesn't look that way to me now!
@@Bike_Lion Yeah, they changed the title now.
Ben Shapiro suffers from his tribe's affliction...Pre traumatic stress.
A chronic case of crying out as they strike you.
That’s what PTSD does… causes otherwise rational people to be hypersensitive to non-threats.
You cannot ignore the unimaginably horrific events of 1941-1945.
@@capitalist4life yeah…to the people who actually lived through it. People born in 2012 have no “trauma” from that beyond the brainwashing older Jews give to the youth: everyone hates you just because you’re you!
Whilst the vision quality of this interview is excellent, the audio quality is reprehensible. I’m a 35 year veteran video editor, so: 1. tell your editors to check their work back thoroughly before publication. This is rock solid, non-skippable, standard procedure. 2. Use AI “enhance” *cough* tools sparingly, and; 3. tell your managers to cough up the budget for a proper competent sound recordist for the next interview, or just don’t waste everyone’s time making interview content at all.
They made it all janky on purpose so we'd think the flagrant edit-cut censoring of Mearsheimer's responses was due to incompetency rather than typical English subterfuge.
A lot of realism, truth and insight from the prof.
Dr. Mearscheimer I have been following your work for many years, once again you have clearly articulated the exact situation we are all currently in.
Finally the truth is voiced
There no one truth in life
Voters vs. doners. The doners always win....
Mearsheimer is brilliant!
They barely talked about Gaza and Kamala's obvious allegiance to the Biden policy. Why?
the spectator tows the establishment line mostly and too much truth and facts and rationality would be bad for business. Just another liberal rag that once in a blue moon brings on serious scholars such as John. Most of the others are complete shit.
It was a gotcha headline.
Spectator edited it out.
Because the right wing want the genocide to continue.
Why is there no discussion of Gaza? AIPAC, as usual.
If this is the quality of hosting and questioning by 'The Spectator' then the spiral of stupidity is an active force in the collective consciousness. Mearsheimer keeps a light on the facts with surprising clarity.
Because Ukraine isn't a problem, it's big business.
Also both Ukraine and Belarus share a thousand year history and culture - unfortunately the far westernn ukriane had periods of invasion and domination from competing powers historically and now has a deeply nationalistic sentiment - which was reborn post Soviet Union j= the shared language of eastern Ukraine as well as several hundred years of family ties makes a hostile Ukraine an absolute red line and source of instability for Russia it can not tolerate. It is incomprehensible that NATO can not understand this - it is the height of ignorance and self inflicted harm to economic ties and stability that is difficult to believe when Russia in the 1990s was among the most pro American nations on the planet - incomprehensible stupid that it has come to this - and appears to have almost no foreseeable off ramp, as far as can be for seen presently - despite how disastrous this is to geopolitical influence -unfortunately the west does not see this present reality that is obvious to the rest of the planet.
The Baltics and Poland for historic reasons are catalysts for this dysfunction, tragic to their interests as well, however much they dream of breaking up Russia they are only strengthening its nationalism and as it is a far bigger nation than all of them combined, it is delusional as well.
Dont fucking tell us what our interests are. We here are deciding what our interests are OURSELVES.
And its definotely not to live under abhorent presidential autocracy of Moskali gosudar. We demand a full parliamentary demoracy. A Liberal democracy.
We also want to cherish 1000 years of our national histories and culture and our civilization - which is based on Viking parlamentarism - not Moscowite tsarism of Moskali mongols.
We detest how russians kept attempting to impose their language, we want our own, their government, we want our own, their society or religion.
(Baltics are protestant -with scandinavia, Poland is Catholic...
Ukraine for most par has been Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth for 500 years - longer then then 250 years Moskali occupation.
We demand to be completely separate to the asiatic absolutism of Moscow tsars. Regardless how they call themselves. Our nations demand full parliamentary liberal democracy without any compromise. you cant make any compromise with liberal freedom.
Its also what happened in Ukraine - after a president Yanukovich betrayed Ukrainian constitution by signing deal with Putin - without Ratifiacation of Ukrainian parliament - Ukrainians rebeled against that.
Why don’t we go back in history when the U.S. / U.K. / France actually invaded old Russia ?
"... invaded old Russia" - Do you remember how the invasion of Russia by the Entente Alliance ended? - Fiasco! And can you imagine how such an invasion might end now? I'm embarrassed to ask you, are you and your loved ones tired of living?!
Because new Russia has nukes?
@@alex-qd6of "Because new Russia has nukes?" - You probably wanted to be funny, but it came out stupid!
Japan was part of that invasion too in the early 20s? Soviets never invades the US.
what for?
WOW! That was a master class in Geopolitics, free of charge!
The greatest prof I have ever listened too.
Very fair, sincere and excellent analytical skills.
Thanks prof.
Even with the cuts, this is top quality commentary from Professor Mearsheimer.
Mearsheimer is certainly intelligent but everything he says is all speculation, as it is always difficult to predict the future. The US predicted in 2022 that Ukraine would fall in a few weeks
I'd be surprised if Kamala could 'solve' a jigsaw puzzle for 3 year olds...
clearly you’re not the sharpest tool in the shed boyd
Do you still believe this after watching Harris trounce Donald in her debate with Trump?
@@TomHuston43 If you call egregiously biased debate presenters, and Kamala blatantly lying frequently throughout the debate a "trouncing" you might be a lost cause. While (clearly biased) liberal media figures are declaring Harris the winner, independent public polling still favored Trump.
There's really no getting around the fact that Kamala has achieved absolutely nothing of value to the USA as vice president.
omg they really clipped out the Israel part
It’s important that voters in Western countries listen to intelligent political commentators such as John Mearsheimer, Chris Hedges & Matt Kennard. We must push back against USA empire building and talk about world peace.
Great guest. The BBC should have him on and get some different opinions, for a change.
@@jbob34345 He would fit right in with the typical BBC reporting
The BBC would not allow someone to counter their Russophobe narrative.
You misunderstand the purpose of the BBC
Mearsheimer has a deep knowledge and understanding of geo-political history. He is rational and does not adhere to the west's neo-con foreign policy objectives. As such, he will not be allowed anywhere near the BBC.
One of the more sane voices on Israel and Ukraine that is rarely heard on right wing media
If supporting totalitarian regimes is sane to you, then yes, you are right.
How is he supporting totalitarian regimes?
@@conokell Russia is a totalitarian regime, and so is Hamas in Gaza.
@@warmperson2007 "supporting totalitarian regimes" - It is better to tell about the "totalitarian regime" to those Americans and Britons who have moved to Russia by the hundreds today for permanent residence. It's time to wake up, man!
@@ouner-699 Never heard about this. But you are talking about a "few hundreds". This is not enormous ! This figure is so insignificant that it is not even worth mentioning.
John’s view is crystal clear and his thoughts has been consistent with his philosophy and backed with his logic. I usually don’t listen to his interviews since I know what he is going to say. But I am 100% agreeing with his views of this World.
Should have him talk about his book the Israel Lobby 🇮🇱
A great channel with excellent choice in guest speakers who are department directors of prominent US Universities. It is a dispicable most offensive act against the viewers to censor or cut minutes from a highly intellectual discource filled with much political insight useful for maintaining world peace and order.
LOVE that side table!
as a britishman myself.... i am embaressed by the clumbsy cuts, crazy audio and upper class entitlement displayed by this channels output.
Those "preconditions" for negotiations are totally unreasonable. 'Ukraine has to agree to all our demands to end the war' - that's not a negotiation, that's unconditional surrender.
I think either Ukraine gives up NATO for territory, or the Russians get the territory and Ukraine gets NATO.
Russia is in the position to make such demands. Ukraine/NATO are not.
We do not care. Are you searching for justice ? Then why you invaded Iraq, Serbia, Afghanistan, Lybia and 50 more countriers ?!
@@tb8865Not really. 2 1/2 years in and they can’t win. How long can they keep it up?
As usual, clear and logical presentation of the facts.
We always talking like Ukraine is independent, the west finances Ukraine, provides weapons, provides intelligence, provides soldiers/mercenaries, everything Ukraine does is aligned with NATO, I mean there is a NATO military headquarters for this war in Poland running 24/7. The idea, that Zelensky makes decisions is delusional.
There's a NATO headquarters in Belgium, and a U.S. Army headquarters in Germany too. Is the idea that anyone, anywhere, makes any decisions at all also delusional?
There's a difference between helping, coordinating, and controlling. Understanding the difference among them is helpful to a correct understanding of how the world works.
Censored!
It is obvious that certain statements of Prof. Mearsheimer have been edited out of this video.
They invited Prof. Mearsheimer for an interview, knowing full well his opinions on the topics, yet they proceed with the interview and then cut out the parts that they do not want their viewers to hear.
The Spectator is hence not to be taken seriously!
Now I know why Prof. Mearsheimer has no link to this interview on this own substack page.
Fantastic interview (apart from the bizarre sound issues). If anyone knows what is going on in the world and can express it clearly and succinctly, it is professor Mearsheimer. Subcribers to the Times Radio clown show take note - this is what real analysis sounds like.
Mearsheimer is brilliant! How many people understand his insight?
Always learn something from Professor Mearsheimer, who is not only brilliant, clear, and insightful, but amazingly patient with his interlocutors.
Even though this interview was heavily edited, it's still good to hear
What a good use of forty minutes to listen to someone who actually knows what he is talking about. I did see Professor Mearsheimer on John Anderson's channel seven months ago, and he made just as much sense about Russia, Ukraine, and NATO then as he does now. Isn't that an amazing coincidence?
Mearscheimer says there is no question that Harris (ie the USA) would side with Israel if it was attacked by Iran because she would lose a large part of her support in the USA if she didn’t. One fatal problem with that argument is that if the level of support for the Palestinians in the USA is anything like the level it is in most other countries, including the UK, then Harris would be a lot more popular if she kept the USA out of any such conflict between Israel and Iran, or Israel and any of the other countries which Israel has recently attacked. Mearsheimer is simply projecting his own views onto the whole population of the USA and the rest of the world.
We’re just sending old equipment so the big 5 can procure new via Pentagon
most people ignore this simple economic fact. You need a place to offload your stock if you want to be able to spend money for new stock. You can't just pile it up. And you always want to keep buying, never stop buying.
War is a Racket.
"We’re just sending old equipment" - But they will buy new equipment exclusively with your money. Therefore, do not swear when you meet pits on the road...
@@ouner-699 As if they will fix the roads if we don't send weapons.
@@kylematlock7499 "As if they will fix the roads if we don't send weapons." - no money, no funny!
Mearshimer = GOAT
They're in the same room? Why is the sound so terrible on one side only???
thanks,Professor John Mearsheimer is great
Poking the Bear. 🐻
Wont end well .
Hello! As a highly educated man, Mr. Mearshiemer makes a fine Russian troll. Regards
Ukraine needs to make a peace deal. We should not be funding this war.
Peace at any price?
@@Land-of-reason peace (not piece)
Peace with Putin is like peace with Stalin: how the fuck did that work out?
@@rsr789 Worked out great for Finland. The Moscow Armistice of 1944 and the subsequent peace treaty (well, to be exact, the restoration of the 1940 peace treaty) brought long-lasting peace for Finland for half a century until the dissolution of the Soviet Union and for the several decades after that with the Russian Federation.
@@Flaakk and then they joined NATO😆😅🤣
with respect to this channel...Professor here still not accepting the long goodbye from Russia & Putin, Lavrov and all...
The quote of the interview: "we're willing to fight until the last Ukrainian". This is so true, and really, says everything we need to know about the UA conflict.
There's a transcript of an old interview with George Soros where he says the only thing preventing the US from fighting Russia over Ukraine was the specter of US soldiers in "black body-bags." Soros said let Ukraine do the fighting, just give them weapons. Ukrainian lives don't matter to those people.
If West wanted to weaken Russia, why would they try to stop that conflict? The longer it takes the most Russia is weakened. I don’t think West was worried about Ukrainian loses of land or people when they started the conflict.
Very hard to believe rhat election between trump and Kamala is too close to call, i mean how is it possible that Kamala is such a formidable candidate? She got no vote from her party in the last election. Some people are really pulling the string on this one.
Why do you think that? Trump is highly controversial and those against him were looking for a credible candidate to defeat him. It was a case of "Anyone But Trump" for them and clearly Biden wasn't up to the job. Harris as the VP was the only credible choice in the circumstances for those against Trump, so they unite behind her, hoping that she is up to the task.
@@dacorum8053 She is not up to any task. She merely regurgitates the terrible policies of the BIden administration.
Easy, many people don’t like or trust Trump. Another Republican would probably walk away with the election.
If the Speccie MUST interview these lefty professors, please get somebody with a bit more insight and aggression than Freddy Grey has in order to ask some hard questions or get somebody else to be interviewed at the same time with an alternative view.
Compared to all other NATIONS ,
the United States of America has enormous earnings from selling
ammunition and ancillary munitions
to other nations . Israel is one of those nations . Can the United States of America afford to stop selling military equipment to Israel❓️❓️❓️❓️❓️
To do so would be a noble sacrifice .
Ask Kennedy
Its not just arms - its strategic advancements AS well as natural resources - The US is th main winner in Ukraine - iIt is getting real time feedback on its war assets, it will setup energy businesses for the "restoration of Ukraine" - which will enrich US industry supply chains as well as have CIA operating in Ukraine for good intellignace. WIN!. The biggest losers here is the Ukranians who frankly do not understand the nuanced way in which how middling powers should run themselves and get rich in the process (India, China, Vietnam, Singapore, Saudi Arabia) as well as Germnay and UK which are on their way to poverty because they do not understand how to take advantage of competing great superpowers and get rich.
his US vs THEM , GOOD vs EVIL mentality of WW2 - needs to end for Europes own good.
But the arms the US is sending to both Ukraine and Israel is paid for by US taxpayers and is then paid to US arms manufacturers who have got rich and benefited enormously from this policy. The arms manufacturers will move heaven and earth to keep the US sending arms abroad paid for by the US taxpayer. Big business and the Israeli lobby rule the US
Apparently, it is also our lot to return [what is Russia’s] and strengthen [the country]. And if we proceed from the fact that these basic values form the basis of our existence, we will certainly succeed in solving the tasks that we face.”
Kamality Harris is nothing more than a liability. Useless.
Surprised he didn't know what the Baltic states are.
he talks about Russian right to block Ukraine but forgets Putins blame on central Europe regarding Poland, Romania and Baltic states. Putin is not just about Ukraine and NATO he is about whole central Europe.
Wow I didn’t realise the spectator was allowed to stray from the Zionist line
Only for 2 minutes tho 😂
@@mrabdi851 yeh I bet the interviewer’s earpiece perforated his eardrum while his handlers screamed at him to change the subject lol
They won't back down.
For the Zionists, it's a holy war.
It is a fight over "holy" books.
Netanyahoo doesn't read the Bible.
"Turn the other cheek", is ignored.
"Those who live by the sword..."
Bibi should read the Gospel.
Jesus Christ never died.
You cannot kill what cannot die.
Can you? Can you kill God?
How? With what weapon?
The mind is a wonderful servant.
For the Zionists, it is a terrible master.
"Holy" books aren't weapons.
They are instructive.
A reckoning is coming.
Love your enemies.
Jesus does.
Doesn't he?
If by Zionist - you mean a movement for the Jewish people to seek political self-determination on their ancestral homeland. . . Then there is no country in the west that does support that.
If you mean Zionism as a colonial project then I don’t think any western country accepts that definition.
But your question belies your bias.
@@existentialvoid I didn't ask a question..? These hasbara bots are getting lazy... They aren't even reading the comments they're replying to
when the conflict started Mearsheimer oppose the use of the term genocide, now after he verifies this is the case, he does not shy from using the word genocide. I have great respect for him because he take care to not make rash judgement and when he does he doesn't sugarcoat it.
I genuinely don t believe the recent statements made by Merkel and Hollande regarding the Minsk negotiations and that they were not conducted in good faith at the time. I do believe that this is what they now say under the pressure of the political situation in their respective countries. Merkel and Sarkozy fought hard against Ukraine s NATO perspective in 2008 and they both followed through with it keeping Nord Stream alive alongside other initiatives, a course showing Russians that they see their red lines and repeatedly resisting US pressure and meddling. Hollande as Sarko s successor also followed that direction. I do believe the Minsk agreement was actually negotiated in good faith but that both Hollande and Merkel now apparently bow to the current Western dogma/mainstream and don t wanna be seen as "appeasers".
Well, they tried to say they saw through Putin's aggression, but actually they are & were ballless. As are now.
If so it's horrifically selfish and killed maybe a million people by making new negotiations pointless.
Poroshenko however said the same.
@@crhu319 Totally agree but I d use more drastic words than "selfish" even though I still appreciate the fact that they actually got it right in the first place and acted in not only their countries interest, that of Europe whilst trying to work out a peaceful solution... BUT yes those interviews (Hollande/Merkel), did a lot of damage and given all they did when they were in power contradicts the nonsense in the interviews they both gave- conveniently done one after the other...one might say: it looked almost coordinated following some "new" narrative.
These interviews and statements ruined the remains of any good faith one might have had in the policies undertaken by any Western politician, freely/carelessly putting themselves in the same basket US politicians are commonly in...whilst giving up a more balanced and understanding European perspective. It s simply shocking they both, even more so Merkel, simply bowed down to the new narrative and surrendered to misguided US interests... coz following their own actions, they actually did and knew better when they still were in power. It s shameful and they gambled away the last bits of credibility Europe had. Doing that, they basically told Russia two things "we bend under pressure" or "we always have been lying vassals of the US" (both horrific messages)... instead of saying loud and proud: "we tried to prevent the one sided US lunacy and tried to go for a mediating approach".
@@nonamenameless5495 I think you got it backwards. You see they were under the americans pressure to lie THEN not now. Why now? They are useless and irrelevant now, they are telling the truth. Back then they had to say one thing up front and the opposite in the back, because the interests to stall for time were enormous. They only warned in public that Ukraine in NATO is bad news but in the back they followed the US lead.
"I genuinely don t believe the recent statements made by Merkel and Hollande " - Personally, I liked Merkel as a politician. However, in fairness, it should be noted that if Merkel and Hollande had serious intentions towards the Minsk agreement, then they would have been obliged to impose sanctions against Ukraine upon the fact of Ukraine's sabotage of the implementation of these agreements. But alas, this was not done. And this is a fact!
It's always exciting to listen to Professor John Mearsheimer.
all western interviewers try and steer him towards their faulty views
The audio was hilarious! Inversely competent to the content! LOL 😂
You cut out his answers. Whats the point of interviewing someone when you change the narrative to please yourself.
If you apologize for advertising Spectator magazine, don't interrupt the interview.
Just say you dont wanna be involved, most americans dont.
he is basically saying Russia 'didnt' wanna be in Chechenia, Georgia, etc, because of security.
Nobody is entitled to their own sphere of influence.
US doesnt like Russia being in Cuba, yet here we are.
Most Americans do want to be involved.
@@scepteredisle oh yeah, you wanna spend 18 hrs in ankle swamp water trenches.
or maybe you wanna build 155mm shells.
You want a participation badge, i havent met anyone that wants to be involved.
@@scepteredisleif true, then "America" must end as a concept.
"Nobody is entitled to their own sphere of influence." Tell that to the Monroe Doctrine.
@@crhu319we need to go back to our roots, 1776. no entangling alliances, less gov
In Finnish the word "kamala" means terrible. so as a fluent Finnish speaker, I always connect Kamala's name to that meaning. "Kamala" in Sanskrit means "lotus" or "pale red."
Genocide?!
He misuses the term
@@joanr3189 Not at all
Well...the ICJ AND ICC found that there was strong evidence of the danger of genocide .
@@grymek737 have you been following the news over the last year. The Israelis have killed 10% of the population of Gaza, this is a holocaust-rate of killing
@@cj4021he has on many occasions specifically laid out why he thinks genocide is appropriate label, in accordance with international law
I remember when I used to watch Spectator vids, read the magazine, and listen to the podcast.
These people have become hacks after the crucial issues of the last 3 years forced them to pick a side: truth and values vs establishment propaganda
Such a pleasure to watch his interviews. So well articulated, especially in highlighting the double standards committed by the US in their 'meddling' in other states and territories.
Well articulated but wrong ! Putin and his FSB environment want to recreate the soviet empire. It's obvious when you read what he wrote and listen to what he says. Skillfull propaganda wants to make you think that the whole thing is only about Ukraine joining Nato.
You can’t solve a problem by the thinking that caused it. Let me think about that again? Kamala does not think. Scrap that advice.
The protests are not belligerent and violent! What lies this host is spouting.
What evidence do you have to challenge that statement?
Let me guess, an article from the Spectator or some other Tory rag. LoL!
John, the threat of US corporations involved in agriculture in the region were a greater threat than NATO because if these corporations had gotten dug in with the kinds of chemicals they use, then had Russia acted then, the rationale for NATO getting in war mode would have increased.
3 years ago, he predicted that Russia would not invade Ukraine... just before they did.
So did Zelensky!
Когда твоих родственников расстреливают и бомбят, только потому, что они говорят по-русски, для тебя это нормально?
Когда ты понимаешь, что если нато войдет в украину, бомбы полетят даже в мой город, который далеко от границ с европой?
Ты глуп. что ты делаешь на этом канале?
The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail is a 2021 book by Ray Dalio
I think you are totally wrong. In fact, he very accurately predicted way before the invasion that if NATO continues pushing Russia, there was going to be a war in Ukraine. At that time, it was hard to believe. It happened at the end.
@michaellee3858 Back then, in 2022 Putin did not intend a real war, he intended a coup backed with Russian military forces. That plan mostly failed. It was only successful in Southeast Ukraine, where territories were occupied very fast and without blood. This is one of the reasons why Russia is still slow. There was no plan B to actually conquer Ukraine.
One of the main reasons for the Russian military operation in Ukraine is the safety of the Volgograd Gap, a 750 kilometer stretch from Azov to Astrakhan, exploited twice by in the last century, first by the German Empire and later by the Third Reich. Russian control of Crimea, which is the key to power projection in the Black Sea, and control of the Ukranian coastline from Mariupol (Azov Sea) to Odessa secured the above mentioned Volgograd Gap. Western geostrategists Lord Palmerston during the Crimean War of 1853-1856 and Zbigniew Brezinsky of our time both claimed that Western control of the Black Sea and cutting Russia from the Oil/Gas rich Caucuses region would turn Russia from an Eurasian Great Power to a second rate Great Power.
The Ukraine was always supposed to be a buffer state
Tell that to the aggressive Russian nationalists who want to completely conquer Ukraine, who think that the Russian Orthodox Church should be hegemonic church in Ukraine and who stand wth idea that the Russian language and the Russian minority in Ukraine should not only have certain rights, but also be under the patronage of Moscow. Until the Russians become less nationalistic in relation to Ukraine and begin to perceive Ukraine as an ordinary foreign neighbour state, its naive to say that Ukrainian neutrality can be a good solution.
@@xxvxxv5588 It's time to wake up, man!
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Pointless take.
@@xxvxxv5588 "Pointless take." - this is why Ukraine is often called "country 404"
@@ouner-699 By whom? By dangeroues and toxic ukranephobes?
Conclusion. learn to live with your 1000 lb. gorilla that is your neighbor. Win him over, don't poke him.
Remember the saying, " if I win your heart, half of what is your is now mine." Be wise, do not be a fool: stop listening to the snake, is the same snake of the garden of Eden.
"Genocide in Gaza" ?? - Sorry, you lost me, bye
Interestingly, it took the sons and daughters of Germans who were involved in the 2nd World War, to ask the tough questions and bring a reckoning within German society over their extermination policy. I believe the same will happen in Israel. The current generation are too ashamed to even listen, let alone confront reality, as evidenced by your comment.
It is not genocide. Palestine should hand the hostages back and stop misbehaving. Israel should be fully supported.
@@Land-of-reason it is genocide, Israel should agree to a hostage deal and end the occupation
Tell me about it 🙄
Of course it is a genocide. Most of the world thinks that.
The host doesn't seem honest in position! Respect for Professor!
Almost nothing said about Gaza! Tepid interview.
Yes ! Free the hostages !
@@warmperson2007yes and free Palestine, stop g cide!
@@never_give_up944 What genocide ? You are delusional. Poor you !
@@warmperson2007 stop following hasbara media for your own sanity
Shameful cutting out of parts of his message.
We love you professor!
Freddy Grey doesn't believe one word of what Mearsheimer is saying.
Because he's a neoliberal pretender.
That is his problem!
Did he say Genocide? what a pr ck... he also didn't see any violence on the campuses what a good left-wing guy
Because Anthony Blinken and Jake Sullivan staying on in Harris’s administration was part of the “deal.”
Lost all respect for this man when he said why shouldn’t Hamas use schools and hospitals as shields. People as they grow old can get a little gaga.
Really?
He's just an awful toad of a man. I don't understand why he's been on Spectator so many times.
@@edwinblake Yep he's right up there with woke academia. A morally deranged human.
@@alanargent5676 Not as deranged as a civilian casualty rate of 90% in Gaza.
Israel uses kidnapped human shields
I am curious to know what Mearsheimer will say when Ukraine pushes Russia out of their borders... certainly not I told you so.
Comparing Professor Mearsheimer's brillantly intelligent face with his British counterpart's is hilarious in itself
Thank you for presenting us with your clear and justified views
The most stupid interview I have ever seen
The question about the Baltics at 18:43 is key. The answer that they are too small to matter to Russia is wholy unconvincing. On the contrary, they are prime real estate.
Finally a non neocon / aka non lunatic gets a chance to speak some reality on this channel
This is called free speech. Even apologists for totalitarian regimes (such as Mearsheimer) have the right to speak out.
@@warmperson2007 a comment frok from one of the genii who likely cheer on the neocons wrecking free speech in front of our eyes … the cognitive dissonance must be
intense
@@user-ge5qb3xq5m Actually the cognitive dissonance IS intense. But since I was not born yesterday (I am 61), I am not so shocked. I am used to intellectuals standing for the most infamous regimes, like Sartre and Beauvoir praising Stalin and minimizing the Gulag, or Noam Chomsky not uttering one word about the Khmer Rouge atrocities.
@@warmperson2007 it’s hardly a binary though is it. Thinking the west has been brought to its knees by 20 years of neocon years does not infer support of the Russian governments. That’s a form of logic you can surely support with you deep experience of the world. Or maybe you’re just another expensively educated well spoken psychopath.
Trump said ‘how about that Russia took no land” I think he meant the citizens voted to become Russia. I don’t think he meant Putin would give it back