John J. Mearsheimer

Prof. John Mearsheimer : What Comes Next in Iran? https://www.youtube.com/live/NAf82r7Tedw?si=F-UbMx-e4Y2Rfnjs

Prof. John Mearsheimer: ‘Hawkish mainstream media were SUPPORTIVE of Donald Trump’s war on Iran until it went south. There are really no institutions in the United States, except for alternative media platforms, that challenge him. Those alternative media platforms have played an important role in shifting public opinion against President Trump on a number of key foreign policy issues. But that opposition from the public doesn’t matter much either because Trump just disregards it.’ Watch the full interview: https://rumble.com/v7dxmwq-prof.-john-mearsheimer-explains-why-iran-war-must-end-and-why-us-will-reduc.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

🇷🇺🇺🇦 PROF. JOHN MEARSHEIMER: ‘The Russophobia in the West in general is OFF THE CHARTS. It’s worse in Europe especially in Britain, than it is in the United States. But it is intense here in the United States. And from the very beginning of the conflict in 2014, anybody who said anything that was at all sympathetic, to the Russian position was going to be pilloried. And this includes me, because I wrote a famous article in 2014 that said that the crisis, the Ukraine crisis, was the West’s fault. It was all due to NATO expansion or more generally to the West’s move to try and make Ukraine a Western bulwark on Russia’s border. I thought this was ridiculously foolish and that it was going to lead to big trouble, which it did. But if you made that argument as I did, you were going to end up with many bullet holes in your body. And I could take my shirt off and show you that there are many bullet holes in my body from making that argument. And the truth is that very little has changed since then. And this means that lots of people on the left as well as the right are super pro-Ukrainian.’ Watch the full interview: https://rumble.com/v7dxmwq-prof.-john-mearsheimer-explains-why-iran-war-must-end-and-why-us-will-reduc.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

Prof. John Mearsheimer on Laura Loomer: ‘I find it hard to believe that Laura Loomer has all the influence that she does in Washington. She has absolutely NO CREDENTIALS, she knows NOTHING about international politics, she’s the last person that Trump should be listening to, but for some reason he is listening to her. Second point I’d make is that she has Israel lobby written all over her, there’s no question about that. And she’s gone to great lengths to push forward with Trump policy moves that favour Israel. And for a long time now, and this would be my third point, it’s quite clear that she was very sympathetic to Israel and pushing Israel’s agenda, but she was not in support of Zelensky. But what’s happened is that she’s been convinced, probably by people inside the Trump administration, that it makes good sense for her to play nice with Zelensky as well as with the Israelis and of course the Americans… In terms of Laura Loomer, and in terms of the Middle East, I don’t think she matters much there either, because I think the Israel Lobby has been exposed. People like Laura Loomer have been exposed and their influence has been greatly diminished.’ Watch the full interview: https://rumble.com/v7dxmwq-prof.-john-mearsheimer-explains-why-iran-war-must-end-and-why-us-will-reduc.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

Prof. John Mearsheimer: ‘The US’ and Israel’s plan to achieve regime change in Iran through sanctions & shock and awe warfare was a COCKAMAMIE IDEA.’ ‘I don’t understand why people in the west are enamoured with this idea that you can punish the civilian population in a country and that will cause the civilian population to rise up and overthrow the government or get the government to surrender to us demands. This is what many people believe. All we have to do is really slam Russia with sanctions or get the Ukrainians to hit their population centres or bomb Iran and the end result is instant victory. In fact, the exact opposite happens. What you get is a rally around the flag effect. There’s hardly any evidence in the historical record that inflicting serious punishment on a civilian population in an adversary in wartime leads that adversary to surrender, or leads the population to rise up and overthrow the government, and then the new government surrenders. This was the thinking that informed President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision to enter the war against Iran on February 28th. We were going to launch a shock and awe campaign against Iran. What we were going to do is decapitate the regime and inflict massive punishment in a short period of time on Iran itself. And supposedly that was going to lead to regime change. It was a cockamamie idea. And it’s not at all surprising that Trump’s advisors understood that it was a cockamamie idea.’ Watch the full interview: https://rumble.com/v7dxmwq-prof.-john-mearsheimer-explains-why-iran-war-must-end-and-why-us-will-reduc.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Prof. John Mearsheimer: ‘Ukraine’s long-range drone attacks into Russia have BACKFIRED, Russia retaliated by closing the Odessa Port and turned Ukraine into a land-locked country.’ FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v7dxmwq-prof.-john-mearsheimer-explains-why-iran-war-must-end-and-why-us-will-reduc.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

Prof. John Mearsheimer: ‘It would have been CRAZY for Zelensky to start a war against Iran, Ukraine🇺🇦 is on the verge of LOSING against Russia🇷🇺.’ ‘The Ukrainians have no interest in widening the war. The Ukrainians are on the verge of losing their war against Russia. They’re suffering enormously, on the battlefield and in the air war. And it would be crazy for them to start a war with a country like Iran in the Middle East. And furthermore, from Iran’s point of view, the last thing Iran wants to do is get into a fight with Ukraine. It makes more sense, much more sense for Iran to concentrate on winning the war in the Gulf against the United States and Israel. So neither side, and here I’m talking about the Iranians and the Ukrainians, had any interest in escalating. And of course what happened is that the Ukrainians apologised to the Iranians and the Iranians called off their planned counterattack. The Iranians had planned to hit three sites inside of Ukraine, and they called off that attack because Zelensky apologised.’ Watch the full interview: https://rumble.com/v7dxmwq-prof.-john-mearsheimer-explains-why-iran-war-must-end-and-why-us-will-reduc.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

Prof. John Mearsheimer: ‘US🇺🇸 military presence in the Gulf States will be GREATLY REDUCED once war on Iran ends.’ ‘There is at the very least going to be a great reduction in the US military presence in the Gulf. What’s been happening here is that the United States has been moving assets out of the Gulf region to Jordan. And now there's evidence, given that the Iranians are attacking US military sites inside of Jordan, that we’re moving assets to Israel and back to Europe. The fact is that these Iranian ballistic missiles are deadly effective against American military bases in the region. And they have either badly damaged or destroyed almost all of them. And it's hard to imagine how, once this war ends, number one, the United States is willing to rebuild these bases and put the assets, the American assets, back in the region. And number two, it's hard to believe that the Gulf states themselves are going to want those assets on their territory… Because in effect, what happens is those Gulf states become a giant magnet for these deadly effective Iranian ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones, which, will only become a more formidable threat with the passage of time because the Iranians have figured out exactly what they have here. And there are not good ways for the Americans or the Gulf states to defend against those missiles and drones. So I think moving forward, there is no question there's going to be at least a great reduction of American military assets in the Gulf region.’ —Prof. John Mearsheimer on the latest episode of Going Underground Watch the full interview: https://rumble.com/v7dxmwq-prof.-john-mearsheimer-explains-why-iran-war-must-end-and-why-us-will-reduc.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

Iran Tightens the Screws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW-QcUMKmE0 On 9 August 2026, I was on “Switzerland” with Vali Nasr, one of the world’s leading experts on Iran, and the host Tom Switzer. We had an excellent discussion about Iran’s latest demands, which came out on 8 August 2026, to settle its war with the US. The terms are much tougher than those the US faced in the 17 June 2026 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). Iran is now unwilling to negotiate on a host of important issues — reparations, removing sanctions, unfreezing assets — that were supposed to be negotiated between the two sides in the context of the MOU. Iran now insists that virtually all its demands must be met right away and not as a result of negotiation. Otherwise, Iran says it will not open the Strait of Hormuz, which Trump desperately wants to happen. Trump has no good way to deal with this disastrous situation that he has worked himself into. It seems obvious that he should have stuck to the MOU and negotiated in good faith with the Iranians.

John Mearsheimer: US Facing Losing 2 Wars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APsV1iOdtcM

Prof. John Mearsheimer: ‘Iran war MUST END. The US🇺🇸 has used up 80% of our THAAD missiles and 65% of our Patriots.’ ‘Well, the first point I would make to you is that before the war started, General Caine was warning Trump that we had limited stocks of munitions, for purposes of waging a war against Iran. And we certainly could not fight a protracted war. But what's happened is we're engaged in a protracted war and it's amazing the extent to which we have depleted our stockpile of sophisticated weaponry. And these weapons are not going to be easy to replace. If you just look at Air Defence Missiles, there are two kinds. One are the THAADS and then the other are the Patriots. We have used up 80% of our THAAD missiles and 65% of our Patriots with regard to, you know, our attack missiles, our smart missiles that you can use for offensive purposes. We've used up 50% of the tomahawks and according to press reports, virtually all of the ATACMs and PrSMs. So the United States has really seriously damaged its inventory of sophisticated weapons that it really needs in places like East Asia, in places like Ukraine and so forth and so on. And I think that someone, who knows who it is, has leaked this information in large part to send out a clear message that the Iran war has to end. And certainly we cannot escalate in that war without even doing more damage to our weapons inventory.’ —Prof. John Mearsheimer on the latest episode of Going Underground Watch the full interview: https://rumble.com/v7dxmwq-prof.-john-mearsheimer-explains-why-iran-war-must-end-and-why-us-will-reduc.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

Prof. John Mearsheimer on Rupert Murdoch’s influence over Donald Trump: ‘It's very clear that there are a significant number of billionaires who have enormous influence with President Trump. And it's clear that Rupert Murdoch is one of them and that Murdoch talks to Trump all the time. So independent of Fox News, there's no question that Murdoch has a great deal of influence. But if you talk about Fox News and influence, talk about the Wall Street Journal. He owns the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal is about as hawkish as you can get on Iran, on supporting the genocide in Gaza, on supporting the war in Ukraine. And of course, Fox News fits the same description. So Murdoch has a huge influence in that regard. We all know that Trump loves to watch Fox News and he gets lots of his information from Fox News, so I'm sure that's helped him to think that there is a way to win this war on Iran… Although I would imagine at this point in time that President Trump has come to recognise that there's no way he can win this war. And that’s why I like to argue that he’s flailing around.’ —Prof. John Mearsheimer joins us for Monday’s episode of Going Underground Don’t miss it, follow us on X and follow our Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/c/GoingUnderground

The Wisdom of Our TV Generals On 5 August 2026 I was on “Deep Dive” with Lt. Col. (ret.) Danny Davis, where we talked mainly about the Ukraine war. We focused on the mounting evidence that the Russians have gained the upper hand over Ukraine both on the battlefield and the in the air war. Russia’s success at closing down the Odessa ports and effectively turning Ukraine into a landlocked country is an especially devastating blow to Ukraine, since it is economy is so dependent on exports and imports that go across the Black Sea. It is almost impossible at this point to tell a plausible story about how Ukraine rescues the situation. Why Ukraine didn’t shut this war down long ago is a mystery to me and Danny, as Kyiv’s situation only gets worse with the passage of time. One of the distinguishing characteristics of Danny’s show is that he relishes putting up footage of retired generals and admirals spouting nonsense on TV about both the Iran war and the Ukraine war. He did not disappoint this time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxKHwHvDT-U

❗️🇺🇸🔘"WHY DID THEY WAIT SO LONG?" – AMERICAN PROFESSOR ON THE COLLAPSE OF ZELENSKY'S 40-DAY PLAN 🔘Ukraine's attacks on Russian ships and ports as part of the 40-day terror plan announced by the cocaine-fueled Zelensky will only accelerate the defeat of the Ukrainian armed forces. 📢This was stated in an interview with Norwegian political scientist Glenn Diesen by American political scientist, Professor of the University of Chicago John Mearsheimer: 🔘 The Russians have shut down the Odessa port complex, they have shut down all Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea. This will have devastating economic consequences. In fact, during the war, the Ukrainian economy has suffered enormous damage, and this situation will only worsen an already dire predicament. There is no doubt that the Ukrainian campaign using long-range drones has caused the Russians considerable pain and problems. There is no doubt about that. But the Russians have struck back and are capable of inflicting far more harm on the Ukrainians than the Ukrainians can on the Russians. So this escalation does not work in Ukraine's favor. In fact, I would say it works in Russia's favor. And I often wonder, why didn't the Russians close the Odessa port complex earlier? Why did they wait so long? Well, fortunately, the Ukrainians have pushed Putin to do it now. This will not improve Ukraine's prospects for winning the war – it will work against Ukraine... I think there is no doubt that Russia will also suffer, but ultimately the Ukrainians will suffer more, and this will accelerate Ukraine's defeat," said Mearsheimer. #News #Politics #USA #Russia #Ukraine #SMO 🔘Subscribe now! Chat

Episode 1: Origins of the War In Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LmCveTM788

Israel Is a Strategic Liability On 4 August 2026, I was on “Judging Freedom” talking with the Judge mainly about Israel. He asked me whether Israel was a threat to the US. I argued that Israel — working hand-in-hand with the Israel lobby — is an albatross around America’s neck. To be more specific, I made the case that Israel and its lobby are 1) a strategic liability, as they played a key role in causing 9/11, the 2003 Iraq War, and the 2026 Iran War; 2) a moral liability, as Israel has been executing a genocide in Gaza and pogroms in the West Bank, and with the help of the lobby involving the US in those calamities; and 3) the single greatest threat to free speech in the US today. We discussed a number of other issues relating to Israel like the case of Jonathan Pollard, but truth be told, we barely scratched the surface. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbhGazAPmxc

John Mearsheimer on how the Israel lobby in the US operates: “This is not a case of all these politicians loving Israel and feeling they have to support Israel because it shares our values or is a strategic asset They do it in good part out of FEAR, fear that the lobby will put its crosshairs on them…”

Mearsheimer: 'The Russians are in the driver's seat Ukraine no longer has a Black Sea port Ukraine winning is just a propaganda campaign'

🔘 Mearsheimer: Ukraine’s ‘Battlefield Successes’ Exist Only in Propaganda ​ Ukraine’s supposed ‘successes’ on the battlefield exist solely in the imagination of propagandists, political scientist John Mearsheimer told Piers Morgan on his YouTube channel. ​ ➡Mearsheimer also offered a prediction for when Russia would establish full control over Donbass. ​ #Ukraine #Russia #Mearsheimer #Donbass #Propaganda ​ 🔘 Subscribe now! Chat

Prof. John Mearsheimer: ‘All this talk about how Ukraine has turned the tide against Russia is a propaganda campaign, much like the propaganda campaign vis-a-vis the war in Iran.’ ‘Russia has basically cut off Odesa from Ukraine. Ukraine no longer has a port on the Black Sea.’