John Mearsheimer

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The Chris Hedges Report · The Iran War and the Looming Economic Collapse (w/ John Mearsheimer) | TCHR · 25 Sep 2026 podcast

So that's what we're reduced to here.

But that in no way is going to cause Iran to quit.

Uh and by the way, the Chinese have said we will not play that game either and Iranian aircraft

Have since landed in China uh after Bessent announced this policy.

Uh so the Chinese are not playing ball with us here.

And more generally, I would note the Chinese are not playing ball with us uh on the Iran issue at all, and in fact, they are helping Iran.

uh to fight against us, as are the Russians.

So you want to remember here it's not just the United States and Israel.

uh up against Iran.

And of course the Israelis are on the sidelines.

They're not doing much of anything these days vis-a-vis Iran.

It's pretty much us by ourselves.

The Israelis got us into this war and then they sit on the sidelines and watch us wage it.

But my main point here is it's not just us against Iran, it's us against China.

Russia and Iran because the Chinese and the Russians have a vested interest in helping Iran defeat the United States and unsurprisingly they are helping Iran.

Well, the Russians are clearly providing intelligence assistance, um, but with regard to the Chinese, there is a big story in the Wall Street Journal today, today being twenty fourth September, um, that details and I mean details all of the aid that China has been giving to the Iranians.

And there is absolutely no question that

Plane load after plane load of equipment has been going.

to Iran that is designed to improve their military inventory, to improve the accuracy and the lethality of their drones and their ballistic missiles.

Uh and furthermore, uh China, as you know, is Iran's major trading partner.

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