John J. Mearsheimer

No, you should be...

In fact, you want to know something, just to go to Putin.

If you really want to do Putin in, you should welcome him into the western part of Ukraine, where there are all those ethnic Ukrainians who will put up a huge amount of resistance, cause the Russians untold trouble, right?

I often say the two principal obstacles to aggression today are,

are number one, nuclear weapons, and number two, nationalism.

If you really think about it, invading other countries and trying to do social engineering,

gonna get you into a lot of trouble.

Well, they have, let me make two points on this.

The Israelis have no sense of the limits of power.

Yes, exactly.

And we have a lot of that.

Oh, I know we do.

You know, right?

But the Israelis have no sense of the limits of military power.

They think you can just pound people into submission.

And you can do that sometimes, but most of the time you can't.

Second point I would make to you is if you think about the whole Zionist enterprise, you go back to 1900 and ramp forward to the present.

It's an amazing accomplishment that small numbers of European Jews coming out of Europe

could go to the Middle East and could carve out a state, a Jewish state, in a sea of Arabs or Palestinians.

It's really quite remarkable.