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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In a country where there is a powerful sense of nationalism, I would not bet a lot of money on this.
There's a long road ahead for the United States and Venezuela.
And I believe that the mission accomplished argument will not look like a good one a year or two from now.
And with regard to blowback, there is obviously lots of blowback in the system.
The Mark Carney argument,
speech at Davos that we just talked about is an example of blowback.
The Europeans are beginning to push back on us.
Not very hard at the moment, but they are beginning to push back.
And we're going to have trouble in different places around the world that we don't have to have if we would act smartly.
But the key point you want to keep in mind is that the United States is an incredibly powerful country.
and it operates in an integrated international economy.
The international economy is highly integrated, and that integration provides us with enormous leverage over virtually every country on the planet, except for maybe China and Russia.
So we use, the Trump administration uses that economic leverage liberally to get its way.
And it also, that economic leverage causes countries to be very fearful of fighting back against us.
They don't want to get on the wrong side of us.
This is why so many countries are now rushing to join the Board of Peace.
President Trump wants them to join the Board of Peace.
Okay, let's join the Board of Peace because we don't want to anger him.
Given the power that he has and given how willing he is to use that power, we have to be very careful.
So the point I'm making to you is given just how powerful the United States is, a
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