John Mearsheimer

It's really quite amazing.

So you see that President Trump, as Mark Carney makes clear, is a wrecking ball when it comes to the international order.

And then when you start thinking about what's going to replace these institutions that he's wrecking,

What is the new international order going to look like?

It's quite clear that to the extent President Trump is interested in international institutions, he wants international institutions that he runs.

This whole subject of the Board of Peace is really quite remarkable.

It started out as an institution that was designed to facilitate a peace agreement, a peace accord in Gaza.

it's now morphed into this international institution, at least in his mind, that he runs.

And he sees it as a replacement for the United Nations.

This is not going to work.

This is not going to be a meaningful international institution.

So I think given that President Trump is going to be in power for three more years, international institutions are not going to have a whole institution

heck of a lot of effect on how international politics is conducted.

That's not to say they're going to be irrelevant, but as long as he's in power and as long as the United States remains so powerful relative to all the other countries in the world, international law and international institutions are probably going to matter less than they have at least since 1945.

Well, it's very important to understand that this is Israel and the United States working together, number one, to topple the regime in Tehran, and number two, to break the country apart the way we, the Israelis and the Turks, broke apart Syria.

And the real trouble started in late December of last year.

That's December 2025.

When protests started in Iran and we played a key role in fueling those Protests and the idea was that the protests would turn violent and we had agents and the Israelis had agents inside of Iran and

that were helping to turn the protests violent.

And the idea was that once the protests gained a lot of momentum and it looked like the regime was going to topple, then the United States would move in with military force.