John Mearsheimer
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first heard Nov 2023
last heard 28 May
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They want to defeat Hezbollah.
But also because they see that as the ideal means for undermining any kind of agreement.
And they don't want an agreement.
The Israelis want to go back to the bombing campaign.
They want the war to restart again in a meaningful way.
And of course, President Trump doesn't want this at all.
Trump wants to cut a deal.
He understands that he has no theory of victory here, and he's got to cut a deal to put an end to this.
But the Israelis want to prevent him from doing that.
And Lebanon is the key lever that they have over him.
And of course, they have the lobby and the war hawks in the United States who will back up Israel at every turn.
We've done so much damage to our regional alliances already, number one.
And number two, Trump just talks like this all the time so that it's not as shocking as one would find it to be if someone like President Biden or President Bush had said this.
I mean, this is sort of par for the course for President Trump.
So I think in the final analysis, it doesn't matter.
The Omanis probably just rolled their eyes just like everybody else in the United States and in the Gulf did.
The fact is that we're in deep trouble in the Gulf.
Before the war on February 27th, it looked like we had a formidable alliance structure.
We had bases all over the region.
And our allies, our Gulf allies, all thought that we would provide security for them.
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