John Mearsheimer
speaker
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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If that were to happen...
that would be one NATO member of the United States effectively going to war against another NATO member.
This is really quite shocking.
Of course, you want to understand that before all of this happened,
hullabaloo about Greenland, all sorts of frictions had arisen within the alliance.
Ukraine is a really good example.
The Europeans and the Trump administration have long been doing battle over how to deal with Ukraine.
And Trump is fed up with the Europeans for resisting his efforts to try to strike a deal with Putin.
So when you look at that past history regarding Ukraine, you can understand why Putin
excuse me, why Trump is willing to play hardball with the Europeans and he's willing to facilitate some sort of divorce across the Atlantic Ocean.
Well, I think you want to realize that there are sort of two dimensions to Trump's foreign policy.
One is the great power politics dimension, and that's how he deals with Russia and how he deals with China.
And in terms of US-China relations, things are actually quite calm these days.
There's not a lot of trouble in East Asia.
And with regard to the Russians, Trump is doing everything he can to foster good relations.
with the Russians.
So in terms of great power politics, where we have this multipolar world, where we've moved from unipolarity to multipolarity, you don't see a lot of trouble between the United States under President Trump
and the Russians and the Chinese on the other side.
It's with middle-sized and smaller countries where Trump is really ruffling feathers, and where you see Trump behaving in quite radical ways.
So that, you know, he's picking on countries like Canada, he's picking on countries like Venezuela, Iran...
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