John Mearsheimer
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2,303 appearances
7 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2023
last heard 28 May
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This week, my guests, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel, help an acapella band with their between songs banter.
It's a great pleasure to be here and thank you all for coming out to hear this debate tonight.
What I'd like to do is pick up where Steve left off and talk about the costs and consequences of being a crusader state.
And let me start first with the costs, the human costs of being a crusader state.
Let me give you two examples.
First has to do with a study that was done by the Watson Center at Brown University.
that looked at the number of people who have been killed, either directly through combat or indirectly, as a result of the various wars that the United States has been deeply engaged in in the greater Middle East since 9-11 or since 2001.
And what the Watson Center discovers is that between 4.5 million and 4.6 million people have been killed in the greater Middle East since 9-11 as a result of these wars.
Let me give you another example, and this has to do with sanctions.
As you know, the United States is addicted to sanctioning countries all over the world, and sanctions are often used for the purposes of regime change, which of course is what crusading is all about.
there is a magazine called The Lancet, which is one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world.
And last August, this is August 2025, it issued a study which reported that
Unilateral sanctions by the United States over a 50-year period.
This goes from 1971 to 2021.
Over that 50-year period, unilateral sanctions by the United States resulted in 28 million deaths.
Just think about those numbers.
This is what you get when you turn into a crusader state.
Now some people may argue that this makes good sense, that these horrendous costs are justified by the end result.
This is an argument that Madeleine Albright made in a famous conversation with Leslie Stahl.
of CBS.
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