#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3
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The following is a conversation with John Mearsheimer, a professor at University of Chicago and one of the most influential and controversial thinkers in the world. He teaches, speaks, and writes about the nature of power and war on the global stage in history and today. Please allow me to say, once again, my hope for this little journey I'm on. I will speak to everyone on all sides with compassion, with empathy, and with backbone. I will speak with Vladimir Putin and with Volodymyr Zelensky, with Russians and with Ukrainians, with Israelis and with Palestinians, with everyone. My goal is to do whatever small part I can to decrease the amount of suffering in the world by trying to reveal our common humanity.
I believe that in the end, truth and love wins. I will get attacked for being naive, for being a shill, for being weak. I am none of those things. But I do make mistakes and I will get better. I love you all. And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description. It's the best way to support this podcast. We got Notion for team collaboration, ExpressVPN for privacy and security on the internet, Insight Tracker for biological data, 8sleep for naps, and AG1 for delicious health. Choose wisely, my friends. Also, if you want to work with our amazing team, we're always hiring. Go to lexfriedman.com slash hiring. And now on to the full ad reads. As always, no ads in the middle.
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And I'll usually, at the beginning of every line, or every bullet point, I'll add a bold one, two, or three words to summarize what the rest of the bullet point contains. And it springs into action the memory system of my brain and reminds me of whatever the heck I'm talking about. This makes my brain sound like a large language model. Speaking of large language models, I should tell you about Notion AI. More than any other note-taking tool, Notion has integrated AI really, really effectively. It can now give you instant answers to your questions using information from across your wiki, projects, docs, and meeting notes. You should try Notion AI for free when you go to notion.com slash lex. That's all lowercase, notion.com slash lex to try the power of Notion AI today.
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