John Mearsheimer
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You know, as I've said on a number of occasions to people, Chris, there's not a single instance in the historical record where Iran initiated attack and attack against another country.
I just want to think about that.
Iran has not attacked another country.
in its recent history since the modern state of iran was created it's not a highly aggressive state contrast it with israel the difference is like night and day israel is one of the most aggressive states in modern history there's just no getting around that and furthermore israel has committed a genocide in gaza
Iran has not committed a genocide in Gaza.
You don't have to like the regime in Iran.
You don't have to like its politics.
But it's not an apartheid state that committed a genocide.
And it has not initiated any wars against anybody that I can find evidence of.
And again, the Israelis, with the Israelis and with the Americans, you find a completely different story.
The United States is a highly aggressive country.
So, and it's joined at the hip with Israel.
So anyway, what I'm saying to you, Chris, just on the general point you were making about people around the world rooting for us, I think if you think long and hard about how the Gulf states assess the United States as a threat versus Iran as a threat, they may, in many cases, view the Iranians as a greater threat.
But I would argue not by much.
And I would not be surprised if we found, if we could, you know, survey people, that they actually view Iran as less of a threat than the United States.
Not by much.
But given how dangerous the United States and Israel, this tag team is, Iran is probably not as dangerous as those two states.
Thank you, Chris.
Yeah, let's just talk about the big picture here.
This tit-for-cat strategy that has been going on for over a week now started on July 7th.
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