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@4363HASHMI

Ай бұрын

Mearsheimer looks older jn this then he does now lol

One of the greatest global geo political thinkers / historians of our time. I have the utmost respect for this man.

Dude just exudes integrity and intellect. We desperately need more thinkers like this.

@virtualpilgrim8645

Ай бұрын

Perhaps some of those Mexicans will fill the gap?

June 01, 2024. Prof. John is very much needed to this point. He helped me understand how countries behave.

Listening to this now is more relevant than ever

This man has been the same age for 16 years

@l.w.paradis2108

2 ай бұрын

You beat me to it.

@hasan_z

Ай бұрын

More like 22 years

@labor.law.

Ай бұрын

Exactly, dude is a vampire ;)

@pawpawbandit3871

Ай бұрын

pretty sure this was uploaded in 2008, but from around 2003. They talk about going into Afghanistan, but don't mention Iraq. Some of what he's saying about politicians not always telling the truth - around the time we were deciding to invade Iraq, is very on point.

@athenakoios

Ай бұрын

@@pawpawbandit387108/04/2002

Lucid, articulate, and prophetic. A genius of our time.

Amazing! How insightful his principles are and they are still valid 22 years later‼️

How come he was so credible in everything he said even from that long ago. Incredible Brilliant Professor…

He really had a crystal ball, didn't he? In actuality he did not fall for propaganda that is presented to the masses and distilled government behavior down to their true motivations. He was absolutely correct in the conclusions and these are holding true all the way through 2022.

@908Dannyboy

2 жыл бұрын

Because it is easy to assume our involvement caused the issue or aggravated it in hindsight. Inaction is never measured in the consequences when it comes to his calculus. What if Saddam was able to invade Kuwait and neighbors and commit more humanitarian disasters? Sure, America could not have been involved, but then the Professor would not have anything to talk about. He sure likes to be critical, even cynical, of American intervention and values, but offers no solutions. He is just a theorist.

@MithradatesVIEupator

Жыл бұрын

@@908Dannyboy He's officered plenty of solutions lol.. not sure what you've been watching.

@TheTruckinDuck

Жыл бұрын

​@@908Dannyboy .,

@diego91zanetti

10 ай бұрын

His predictions about Russia-China and Russia-US relations (44:30) just didn't come true.

@pabis6817

8 ай бұрын

50:54 He’s so unbelievably full of sh*te! For 75 years Palestinians have said they do NOT want a state of their own! They want to kill all the Jews and make Palestine a Muslim caliphate! So no they aren’t begging for a their own state or they would have agreed to one the last 7 times they were offered one! Don’t even get me started on his ridiculous CGTN, kowtowing he does for the CCP communist or the insane mental gymnastics he tries to do to blame Russia’s criminal invasion and annexation of Ukrainian sovereign territory on US backed NATO “expansion”!!?? NATO was basically going extinct until Putin started killing Europeans and talking like Hitler about the “Russian speaking people in the Donbas”. Mersheimer is a nut job! Of course college kids and ME muslim brotherhood Pan Arabist (Palestinians) Russians vatniks and Chinese Wumao’s love him ! Because can twist recent history to form a narrative that somehow always blames the United States for ALL the worlds problems.

It was amazing to watch and listen the prof. 15 years ago

@markmacdonald7955

2 ай бұрын

It still is. He was extremely prescient. Edit: everything except that China’s growth would push the U.S. and Russia together, but his explanation now would be that the U.S. enlarged NATO to the point where Russia felt an existential threat.

@hasan_z

Ай бұрын

Video was uploaded here 16yrs ago, the conversation took place 22 years ago

Damn he is good! 20 years passed and some of his estimations so true!

I love being able to sit back, relax, listen, and take in the concepts without the strain that reading puts on my eyes. Thank you for posting these videos UCtelevision.

ANYTIME Mr. Mearsheimer is speaking...whether an Old video or Recent...I'm there!! 22 yrs ago & still very applicable today.

Great conversation. Prof Mearsheimer is a great realist, seeing international relation as it is, without ideological glass.

@naturerules7176

2 жыл бұрын

Bro please listen to his latest lectures in which he is convincing us on good and bad lies giving clean chit to Bush junior Iraq crimes. They are all state agents modulating it's image except very few. Nationalism prevails over reality and justice.

Thank u for a depth analysis. wish U.S leaders listen to u. The world will be a better place.

One of the best videos i ever watched on the internet

Great MEARSHEIMERWAVE track to open the show with.

@vassilok

Ай бұрын

Hilarious. I went back to hear it. Boards of Canada with a rococo twist.

April 20, 2022. Professor Mearshimer is more necessary with each passing day. The rethorical question is: why it is that we are never exposed to his thinking in most of the media?...🤔

@jasimmalik8078

2 жыл бұрын

Idealists have set imaginations of how the world works and don't want that bubble popped. Realism while being more rational, doesn't play to people's hopes and dreams. Both can be true, Utopias are real, but short lived, and Global Utopia is realistically far from anyone's lifetime, and even a Perfect Utopia eventually comes to an end.

29:39 "we should all be very skeptical of what our leaders say".

Making friends and not enemies is common sense

The best. Thanks Prof. Mearsheimer

Incredibly courageous to have been making these statements in the wake of 9-11. Everything he has been saying for years is completely self-consistent and has integrity

It’s fascinating to see how the professor’s views have remained consistent for so long.

The scholarly work of Professor John Mershiemer is of high value and very much relevant to the present day international politics.

Just wow!..I could listen to this everyday and everyhour.. I mean these guys look so student freindly and extremely willing to take on questions unlike my Professor..

@steveH384

3 жыл бұрын

crazy how much has changed in just a few years

On a personal note, he hasn't change from about 60 to mid-70s. That's a lesson to us.

John you are legend.

Professor John Mearsheimer is an American treasure and a true patriot 🇺🇸 Whaaaata great interview!!!!!

I find the universe and life to be so complex that is beyond understanding. Life passed by so quickly that the human race must work together to avoid conflicts and war!

Very helpful for understanding, thank you!

“The biggest and baddest dude on the block.”

I really agree with Mearsheimer and I wish that people who fall into the usual categories like socialists, anarchists, libertarian, right wing conservatives and so on, would come out of their ossified frames and get interested in ideas that transcend such categories.

This man is such a wonderful peace of intelligence added to this world. Bless him.

I love John Measheimer

As a man of loyalty and integrity, Prof Mearsheimer was right then and has been right ever since. Liberal imperialism (self-righteousness) of America has created endless miseries both abroad and domestic.

Mr. Mearsheimer is an amazing human being.

Such powerful suggestions to students at all ages at the end of the conversation. Very inspiring regardless of time!

Wow.Great explanation! 14 years ago. This is called Realism.

@rogerclemis4380

Жыл бұрын

Its says 2002 in the discription so 21 years ago

Wonderful talks

Don’t know whether to laugh or cry when he praises Samantha Power as the voice of morality about genocide.

54:35 Nice explanation of how to maintain a constantly refreshed world view.

18 years on from the original air date, Mearsheimer's analysis was mostly spot on - particularly regarding the War on Terrorism. Bush would've done well to heed his advice instead of embarking on the lunacy that was the Iraq War.

@stevensica89

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, except that Bush was in thrall to all the war-mongering Neo-Conservatives mongering war on the behalf of Israel.

@themsmloveswar3985

2 жыл бұрын

Bush decided nothing. Cheney's puppet. Cheney made stupid decisions.

this guy is a giant amongst intellects

It still surprises me how many people don't think Realism is plausible. To me it seems uncontroversial and obvious.

I personally think realism comes closest in explaining the world order or chaos than all other theories, specially the defensive realism. i just wanted to have a say lol but this video was great thanks for the great work of sharing.

Fantastic conversation.

Good stuff, thanks UC

Thank very much

He’s been exactly correct with everything he’s had to say.

14 years ago, this guy predicted everything...

@pjeremilysnowprendi2484

2 ай бұрын

Yeah… especially the coalition of the USA and Russia to counterbalance the raise of China. 😂😂😂

Have learnt a lot from u sir, and will be dreamt to sit by your side one day.

Insane how he got like 90% of his predictions correct 20 years in the past

Brilliant George

Love this guy. Shittin on the neoliberal foreign policy establishment. Why is his expert opinion never invited on network news? If not working in our state department .

What a man!!!!

If you want to know the truth about the wars in the Middle East, you should read his work.

@coreycox2345

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the recommendation, Bokomo Mazuri.

Noam Chomsky,Jeffry sacks and John Mearshmeir are my favorite intellectuals!

beautiful

Wow! This is an education.

2021, many of the things that this profesor said are being fulfilled... o.0

@user-nx6ji9tk8i

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty hard to read it now…. March 2022

I totally agree.

Viewing politics through the lens of race and ethnicity has far more explanatory power than viewing politics through the lens of ideology.

JM was dead-on on predicting the outcome of GW1, and his warnings concerning the soon-to-come GW2 (at the time of this interview). the guy just seems to be, without a lot of fanfare or smugness or egotism, the smartest in our collective room. he, moreover, has the courage to speak plainly about our irrational policies respecting Israel, where that state is headed, nay-sayers notwithstanding - his predictive record speaks for itself.

He really blew the big question: “What advice would you give to students as to how they should prepare for the future?” The answer, of course, is that they should avoid the (essentially Nixonian) temptation to focus on issues of foreign policy and instead concern themselves with domestic issues. The story of the 21st century in America is how media and other policy makers are making it impossible for all but the most fortunate to live a civilized middle class life. It simply won’t matter what happens in great power relations if non-HYPS folks, have no work beyond pouring coffee, or if they have to cower in their apartments to avoid violence dusky types who’ve been exempted from the criminal law.

@l.w.paradis2108

2 ай бұрын

"International relations" will determine war and peace, and the value of the US dollar. That will determine what happens domestically. It's not up to us anymore, and has not been for a long time.

He never mentions Taiwan. That’s been a huge issue between China and the West, especially the U.S. for 75 years. I agree with some of his theories about realism and politics, especially international relationships. But it’s really hard to predict the future of how nations will play out their differences on the international stage.

excellent

John Mearsheimer is an American political scientist and international relations scholar. He is best known for developing the theory of offensive realism, which describes the interaction between great powers as being primarily driven by the rational desire to achieve regional hegemony in an anarchic international system. According to his theory, states act aggressively to maximize their power and security. Mearsheimer believes that China's growing power will likely bring it into conflict with the United States. Additionally, in his book "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," he argues that the Israel lobby wields disproportionate influence over U.S. foreign policy. His work continues to shape discussions on international relations and global peace.

yeah!

Well this have aged beautifully.

Academic of the highest order.

Legend

Great conversation with a great mind and a wise thinker.. many of his thoughts exist already in the holy Quran especially about trying to have power . Allah said ،,:" وأعدوا لهم ما استطعتم من قوة" And prepare against them whatever force you can"

Cool!

China and Russia are weak ? How things have changed !

No 11 Bravo for Mearsheimer! Smart!

Anyone who mentions ´The will to power´ gets a like from me.

The only thing he predicted incorrectly was Russia and US relationship. He didn't expect Russia and China to become closer than either of them to US.

Wow, he saw the future! Smart man.

I just found out that there are typed versions of these interviews - ahh! Just google the title of the video and there should be a result from globetrotter/berkley.

All great models have things to teach us about reality, and all models are wrong! Mearsheimer is correct, realism fails when the assumption that states are the primary agent. With the explosion of individual power on the international plane, transnational corporate entities, global non-government organisations, and structural changes at the international level, realism needs to be augmented with new models.

@RileyRampant

6 жыл бұрын

excellent point. this would include, most pertinantly, energized empowered factions within the polity of any state. that is yet another aggregation which acts much as state within a state. think of your own examples, there are more than one or two in the US, certainly.

John already had many books back then!

he simply didn't anticipate Neocon ideological intoxication after the dissolution of the SU.

Dr Mearsheimer is like a time traveler 😮

Damn... Mearsheimer already looked old back in 2002... 😃😃

@virtualpilgrim8645

Ай бұрын

He was born old...

Can you imagine what an example it would set for the world if we were able to find a way to live in peace in Israel/Palestine? All the pieces of the puzzle are there: a shared monotheistic tradition, a shared land, and shared interests.We are closer to actualizing this than most people realize.Peace is in the best interest of all parties involved...it is a non-zero sum game.May G-d bless us with the wisdom to see clearly that peace is a matter of creating the conditions for mutual prosperity

Mearsheimer is such a babe! I may actually pass my exams now!!

Nobody wants to question whether "power" is solely based on military might? Nobody wants to argue that economic power might enter into the equation?

Leaders probably follow their perceived self-interest. Perceived yes, as it is influenced by their norms and ideas on the world. So yeah, I disagree with Maersheimer, but do think his perspective is a very useful as a perspective on the world and it explains a lot of why the world is at is.

@clovisra

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with J. M. Because my coutry is a victim of the imperial deep state of the USA.

@jalllaaavg

2 жыл бұрын

Yes and their self interest is staying in power. I don’t see the disagreement?

A very fine character. Rarely seen nowadays, unfortunately.

He thought about a Russia China immigration abs boarder dispute where Americans would help Russians against China …

Good

Terrorism is an effect, not a cause. Terrorists are always an organized group. Not to be confused with anarchists (loosely organized). Go to the cause, solve it, and that "strain" of terrorism will weaken and disappear.

If University of California is at Berkeley, then what is UCLA?

@RileyRampant

6 жыл бұрын

Berkeley is across the bay from SF, north of Oakland. as the oldest (I believe) land grant university in the UC system, it enjoys that name.

Analysis of this video today? He suggested that a coalition between the USA and Russia will be fostered due to China and Russia rivalry. And other errors. Affer discarding his mistaken advice on terrorism, all the Mearshmeimer assumptions were half a truly prophecy about China and the related international political frame. Considering his 50% efficacious prediction 21 years ago, I believe he has a good performance (despite far from to be perfect). Brasil

If states are like black boxes and all act the same, why does the US tolerate the UK and France having nuclear weapons yet North Korea and Iran have sanctions imposed on them?

@CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY

2 жыл бұрын

The same reason you can have a Glock, but your mentally ill neighbor can't.

He predicted USA policy on China 16 years ago 👏👏👏

dude was prophetic about China in 2002

4:56 what WP taught JJM .... taught him to suffer; 6:04 speak your mind

Smart man