Israel-Hamas, Ukraine-Russia and China: John Mearsheimer on why the US is in serious trouble!
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Published 2023-10-30
The Middle East crisis will have have severe repercussions for Israel, its neighbors, and U.S. foreign policy. Israel's response to Hamas's attacks is expected to continue to provoke anger across the Middle East, potentially fueling jihadist movements and escalating conflicts with other groups, contributing to regional instability. The U.S. has a vital interest in maintaining stability in the Persian Gulf, but the Israel-Hamas conflict threatens to undermine this.
It's crucial to acknowledge that Russia, rather than constituting a substantial threat to the U.S., has the potential to be an ally in containing China. However, the U.S.-supported campaign in Ukraine has inadvertently drawn Russia closer to China, contravening the principles of balance-of-power politics, and this commitment to Ukraine is likely to remain.
All this conflict risks diverting American focus from East Asia, where efforts to forge a coalition to address a significant strategic challenge are underway, it's in Australia's interest to collaborate with the U.S. in deterring China. Beijing's optimal outcome involves the U.S. remaining deeply involved in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, preventing a full pivot to East Asia.
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All Comments (21)
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I have to disagree and say that the US is the greatest threat to the US. No amount of pivoting is going to help.
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The best starting point for US is to stay home and focus on your own internal troubles. So many. Instead of blaming China, Russia and everyone else for her own ills. This way American politicians can truly work for the American people and help lift the quality of life for the average Americans. Instead of messing up the world.
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Now the world really understands what America's freedom and democracy is all about.
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I found it difficult to understand why they call others threat when they are growing their economies
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Saying China is a threat is like a school bully claiming that the new friendly kid’s growing popularity is a threat.
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I have watched many interviews with him. He always says China is the biggest threat, but never explains why. For the past 30 years China has been very helpful economically, providing cheap goods to the US, and not threatening war. They only became an enemy when their economy started to rivel the US.
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The core of the problem is the “ rule based “ order, designed by the US that they are exempt from it whilst demanding the rest of the world follow it. Similarly, as China grows in every metric, the US considers its growth as an increase to the direct threat to US hegemony. While China’s increase in influence comes from the result of its economic growth, the initiatives of the US and Allies, through their attempts to stifle its growth has resulted in China increase of growth in the Technological area as well, so much so that China’s contribution exceeds those of the US in every matrix that matters. In the main, the debauchery of the US rule based order, by the US, like militarising of the US dollar, applying sanctions Willy Nellie to anyone has alienated the rest of the world except the Anglo Saxon world and Europe, resulting in an increasing number of countries to be major trading partners of China. Concurrently, because of its clear rise in influence, China has become increasingly assertive and the US is doing everything to frustrate China’s challenge to the “ rule based “ order. The 2 major conflict areas have been caused by the expansion of NATO to the doorstep of Russia, resulting in the Ukraine War and the support of Israel despite her continuing expansion into Palestinian land. JM is no doubts an US patriot and ignores to mention breaches of US to morality and the hypocrisy of the US to portray the “ rule based “ order as if it is based for Justice to all. As an academic, JM may be more influential had he exposed that the US is only democratic by assertion, not by fact, because it is more akin to a kleptocracy, when less than 2% of the population owns 80% of the wealth of the country and the bottom half of the population has 1% . To make “America Great Again starts from looking after All of its population, which means reverting America from a Make Belief Democracy to a Genuine One.
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You don't need to be Muslim to stand with Palestine 🇵🇸 You just need to be Human
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The US shouldn't pivot anywhere except back towards its own house. It's time we seriously minded our own business.
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As I am not a US citizen, I am sarcastically smiling when hearing all this anxiety of losing the privilege of being the only superpower. Stay calm and like the British did in the past, admit the bitter reality and adapt to the new situation without much drama.
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US used china as leverage against USSR and later, should have used russia as a leverage against china... but missed the opportunity fearing that bringing russia too close to west europe would create a powerful competitor, besides china... now, got an even larger problem to solve...
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I’m impressed by so much truth and clarity 🫡🙏
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None of my educated friends are happy that Australia has lost it's Sovereignty to the US.
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mr. mearsheimer, be honest. australia does not have a vested interest in containing china. the US has a vested interest in having australia as a pawn in its containment of China.
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Look for Peace not for War in this short life! No more Enemy, We are Friend and as a human beings!
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This forum is highly appreciated. It indeed provides accurate and in depth knowledge of the world affairs. Thanx.
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No China threat, No Soviet threat - just US threat.... nice picture of perfect world
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As he just said, the people in Gaza were living in the world's biggest prison for years and the US just look away doing nothing while making a big fuss about the unsubstantiated Uyghurs problems in Xinjiang.
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I can only dream of articulating my thoughts like Professor Mearsheimer
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When I heard him speak about Ukraine loosing at that time I was very upset and was convinced he was wrong. Now listening to this again today...I sadly understand what he was saying.
