John Mearsheimer

So the Israelis were in real trouble and pushed Trump to end the war after 12 days.

Well, the situation has not changed.

If the regime is in place in Tehran and is capable of launching ballistic missiles at Israel, Israel would really be pounded.

And Netanyahu recognized that.

So it's very important to understand that the Israelis on January 14th asked us not to bomb Iran.

And again, the American military said, you can bomb Iran, but you're not going to get regime change.

And in large part, because the protests had failed by January 14th, because on January 8th, the government in Tehran started to crack down.

So this is what's going on there.

But of course, as you well know, this game is not over.

the United States and the Israelis will continue to look for ways to have regime change in Iran, and they will continue to look for ways to use military force to help topple that regime.

Well, we should definitely be concerned about it.

Uh,

You know, we live in a very dangerous world and President Trump makes that world increasingly dangerous by the day, by his rhetoric and by his actions.

So we should be concerned.

But having said that,

what are we going to do with all that military force to affect regime change in Iran?

The fact is the regime is in place and there's no way all that air power that we have in the region can topple the regime.

You see, you want to understand that starting in late December, we and the Israelis thought that with the protests,

With the protest, we could topple the regime.

The protesters were going to do the heavy lifting.