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 furthermore, Iran is going to end up controlling the Strait of Hormuz
And furthermore, it looks like if the deal is cut, that Iran's economic future looks much brighter than its economic past.
This is disastrous for Israel.
And Israel wants to do everything it can to undermine the deal.
This is why the Israelis are bombing away in Lebanon.
This is the principal way they have of undermining any deal.
And what Ben Gavir is basically saying is we don't like the deal at all.
It's disastrous from our point of view, and we will make sure there is no deal.
And I think he is, in effect, saying that, you know, we control the United States and we'll make it impossible for Trump to strike a deal.
Well, you want to understand that
We're talking first about getting a ceasefire in place and opening the straits.
That's the first step in the process.
And then once that's done, you'll have negotiations on the nuclear issue, on the Strait of Hormuz, on sanctions, on reparations.
on missiles.
They're just all sorts of issues floating around in here that have to be dealt with.
A lot of moving parts, to put it in slightly different language.
But up front, what we're trying to do now is just create a meaningful ceasefire.
And that means, again, shutting down the war to include Lebanon and opening the strait.
And the problem is that the Israelis do not want us to stop the war in Lebanon.
And they don't want us to stop the war in Lebanon because they want to conquer territory in Lebanon.
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