John Mearsheimer
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2,303 appearances
7 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2023
last heard 28 May
John Mearsheimer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then there's Iran.
I believe that Iran will eventually be proven to be the most disastrous foreign policy decision in American military history.
So if you look at Afghanistan, you look at Iraq, and you look at Iran, you see, as the academic literature says, that regime change does not work.
It's remarkably difficult to promote democracy at the end of a rifle barrel.
One final point.
one might think that crusaders are in favor of
of promoting democracy, period.
But that's not true.
Crusaders distinguish between like-minded democracies, this is a phrase that Mike often uses, and other democracies.
And Mike is interested in producing a world with like-minded democracies.
And of course, the end result of this is that we go around the world and we knock off democracies that we do not consider to be like-minded.
So you should remember as we go through this debate tonight that the United States has a rich history of knocking off democracies that are not like-minded around the world.
Iran, 53.
Guatemala, 54.
Chile, 73.
I could go on and on.
We have a rich history of knocking off...
democracies.
These are not like-minded democracies.
These are, in effect, monster democracies.
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