I have a lot of respect for Walt's work and read it regularly. Truthful, sober analysis- very atypical for prominent American intellectuals who comment on foreign affairs.

*"They're the gang that can't shoot straight"* -Prof. John Mearshheimer

"truth to power kills your career " Remarkable that nobody in the audience was alarmed that he said out loud that we were lied to about the Iraq war, and other foreign policy issues.

Because the mindset of the leading social class is so oriented to keeping power and using hegemonistic rule methods, like the British, and they lack all humility or will to do introspection.

Professors Walt and Mearsheimer are American gems . We need more people like them to be invited on mainstream media as well!

Foreign policy in Afghanistan has been a great success. Those poppy fields are producing like never before. It isn't the Taliban who are profiting it is all the 'right people'.

@user-tc9ge6pm7y

3 жыл бұрын

The Taliban al Qaeda organization, supported by the CIA of the United States, received training in Taiwan. The U.S. has lifted a stone and hit itself in the foot.

@lyanna518

2 жыл бұрын

And today taliban controls a country

@infinite1483

2 жыл бұрын

This aged unbelievably well

@wakmanazimi1643

2 жыл бұрын

Right people? You mean it was the US that’s profiting, making billions from those poppy fields, right?

@patrick91134

Жыл бұрын

This comment didn't age well

It is failing in a way that you can't imagine 9 years later.

@akeleven

3 ай бұрын

The mention of Ukraine startled me until I remembered Crimea.

On the answer to that last question, there's an interesting lecture about "why US generals were so effective in WWII and so inneffective now" (or something like that) by a journalist/historian specialized on the subject.

Is the audience having dinner while he speaks? Whatever is going on in the background is really distracting.

@destagelmo88

2 жыл бұрын

The WashDC foreign policy establishment trying to jam the speech.

American exceptionalism at its best.

56:00 US diplomats and OSS officers did understood the nature of the Vietnamese struggle - policemakers, pushing back the anti colonialist approach of Roosevelt - decided it was more important to help France recover quickly because they feared leftist forces would raise to power through democratic means. The source is PBS' "Vietnam: A Television History".

The clamoring and commentary from the audience makes me wonder if they were half listening at all. Nobody really adds to the discussion, rather shouts out the bit they understood while trying to signal they’re on the correct side of the issue. These people are part of the problem.

9 years later still trying to "pivot to Asia". But we made such a mess of Middle East we can't get out. To say nothing of Central American.

would have been nice to see the slides as well

@melodyramirez1907

7 жыл бұрын

Seanoutdoors have him do it again

one simple sentence: arrogance

@Nathan-cb7ho

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a word, not a sentence.

Love it, the good Doctors, as per usual, laying that beatdown flawlessly.

What fuckedup society bloody thirsty society called USA 🇺🇸 killed millions of people around the globe

He jumped over the Reagan Administration completely. How is that possible? Because Reagan ignored the consensus at the State Dept thereby securing the greatest foreign policy success in the post war period.

@goedelite

2 жыл бұрын

Nonsense! The USSR failed because of internal corruption and because its leaders in Russia did not wish to be governed by the President of the USSR. They dis-integrated the USSR into its individual components of which Russia was one.

@darbyheavey406

2 жыл бұрын

@@goedelite You must have been in the crib asleep.

Just look at the mess we are now have on our hands in the Ukraine and Gaza. We never learn and this will be our downfall.

54:43 It seems they really learned how to use historical analogies for rhetoric purposes but they did not learn how to use history as a source for analysis.

Great talk!

Good lecture

LOL and look at what happened with Syria two years later.

@rk2827

2 жыл бұрын

US , Israel and Sunni countries funded and assisted ISIS and got fucked.

brilliant

Prof. Walt made a comprehensive summary of US foreign policy events, but one would gain more by tracing in depth analysis of inter- 37:58 actions with a couple of countries, e.g. Iraq or China.

*built to spill

Foreign policy is wonderful we should sacrificing more

we're not powerful enough, simple answer

b/c It's DESIGNED 2 FAIL #ORDOABCHAO

Because the current foreign policy is suited to benefit Israel and not the USA

@mariocroatia9321

7 жыл бұрын

Arctic Grayling Obama is not hostile to Israel.Israel is hostile to Obama.And I'm saying this as a right winger

@mariocroatia9321

7 жыл бұрын

Arctic Grayling Obama is not hostile to Israel.Israel is hostile to Obama.And I'm saying this as a right winger

@titscapone1308

2 жыл бұрын

The solution is simple, keep bombing foreign countries and bringing the displaced to the U.S. and Europe. Time for more interracial mingling.

at the beginning of the talk he said something like he doesnt believe conspiracy has a impact and by and large the people involved try to do the right thing but when he broke it down conspiracy and bad motives seem to be at the heart of failures from misleading the public -- how to be an insider- motives-and very little about the number one overriding problem corporate and elite hegemony.

@titscapone1308

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it was like a wink and nod disclaimer.

HOW IS IT FAILING WHEN THEY KEEP SMASHING THEIR ENEMIES/RIVALS FOR A CENTRY OR TWO.

Number one Mr. Harvard professor I guess you haven't been paying attention but look at what Trump is doing. I realize this video is very old but I would have thought you would come back out abd praised Trump. I hope you support him because I am very suspicious that you might have sold out to China as did a few of your fellow colleagues.

@ryangrumbles2216

3 жыл бұрын

Lmfao! I just literally said the same exact thing. Not one bullshit war under trump. Peace treaties signed. Not even 4 months into the radical left administration shit be picking up where it left off under Obama.

@ryangrumbles2216

3 жыл бұрын

I just happened to look up about history of past gas drama and o I wars and came across this knucklehead

@ryangrumbles2216

3 жыл бұрын

And all wars are banker's wars

@ryangrumbles2216

3 жыл бұрын

America never had a businessman as our leader like we had in Trump

@Frankybeanselevators

2 жыл бұрын

He seems really close to pretty much conceding that Russia was justified in taking parts of Ukraine, and Chine would be justified in doing the same, for "historical reasons".

I wonder how much the CCP contributed to this guys wallet.

@jalllaaavg

2 жыл бұрын

Pointing out mistakes is bad?

@martinjanecek4950

2 жыл бұрын

educate yourself pls.

@akeleven

3 ай бұрын

America "right or wrong" often ends up "wrong"