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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What you're going to have to do is work out a deal with the Iranians.
And we, of course, can't bring ourselves to do that because the Iranians have won.
they've won a victory here.
And if we sit down and negotiate a deal, it will become manifestly clear to anybody with a triple digit IQ that the Iranians won because Trump will be forced to make huge concessions in negotiating that deal.
Well, you want to remember that Mark Carney is the Prime Minister of Canada, and President Trump referred to his predecessor as the governor of the 51st state of the United States.
And he's made it clear, President Trump, that he has his gun sights on Canada as well as on Greenland, although Greenland's getting all the attention these days.
So Carney is well aware of what he's dealing with.
And Carney made what I think is in many ways a brilliant speech that made it clear that he understands that Trump represents a fundamental threat
the so-called Western order or the rules-based order.
If you listen to most European leaders, they want to accommodate Trump.
They think that by appeasing Trump, they can get Trump to play ball with them.
I think Carney fully understands, and quite correctly, that that's a wrong way to deal with Trump.
Trump is interested basically in wrecking NATO.
Trump is not interested in having good relations with the Europeans.
and he has a huge amount of power, and he's going to use that, number one, to take Greenland, and number two, to do great damage to the Western Alliance, which he has little use for.
And basically what Carney was doing was spelling that out.
He was telling brutal truths to the audience at Davos, and that's basically what's going on there.
Yes, I think there's no question about that.
The key point here is that Denmark effectively owns Greenland, or to put it in more benign terms, Greenland is in effect part of Denmark.
And Trump, until yesterday, was threatening to use military force to take Greenland away from Denmark and make it part of the United States.
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