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The Danger of a Nuclear Middle East | Ask the Professor
YouTube Channel member @Seniorquasimodo asks: if Iran builds a nuclear deterrent, will Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the UAE follow, creating a stable balance of nuclear powers in the region? Would Israel and the United States allow it, and what is the future of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East? In this Ask the Professor, I make three points. First, the 2025 12-day war and the ongoing war that began on February 28 have given Iran powerful incentives to go nuclear, and Saudi Arabia, ...
- 2 days ago44 min
Trump’s Post-Midterm Iran Plan Is a Loser | Episode 14
DESCRIPTION The Trump administration is desperately searching for a way to end the Iran war on favorable terms. President Trump has indicated that he would take steps after the mid-term elections to bring the war to a victorious conclusion. That is not going to happen, however. The United States has no way of winning its war against Iran. ———————————————————— CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:27 Trump's Post-Midterm Iran Plan 1:59 What's Happened Since February 28th 2:37 The Four U.S. and Israel...
- 4 days ago9 min
International Law Only Binds the Weak | Ask the Professor
YouTube channel member @KamranRazvan asks: What does the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty actually offer a non-nuclear state if international law has no real enforcement? My answer starts with a distinction between great powers and minor powers. Great powers create international institutions, write the rules to serve their own interests, and break those rules when they conflict with their national interest. No higher authority can punish them. The UN Security Council veto is the clearest...
- 5 days ago18 min
Was It a Mistake for Britain to Fight World War II? | Ask the Professor
In this episode I answer a question from channel member @hassanakram8328 , who asks whether it was worth it for Britain to fight World War I and World War II, and whether Britain should be helping Ukraine against Russia today. My answer is that Britain had no choice. Both wars were extremely costly, but staying out would have cost more. In 1914 and 1939, Britain had to choose between two bad options, and fighting was the less bad one. I explain why Britain, an island, repeatedly a...
- 1 weeks ago9 min
Does Israel Win If the Gulf Burns? | Ask the Professor
YouTube channel member @BrianPerry-f7b asks: Does Israel benefit if the Gulf states are devastated? Iran has threatened to hit Gulf civilian infrastructure if its own sites are struck, and it has the capability: oil and gas facilities, desalination plants, and the seven undersea internet cables running beneath the Persian Gulf. To answer it, I lay out Israel’s five strategic goals and show where Iran blocks two of them: weak neighbors and no nuclear proliferation. Israel would love to ...
- 1 weeks ago1h 31m
Israel’s Lobby vs US Democracy | A Special Roundtable
BUY THE BOOKS: Israel's Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power by Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick: https://amzn.to/4gMNJey The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John Mearsheimer & Steve Walt: https://amzn.to/3SL2M0o ———————————————————— DESCRIPTION Why has American opinion on Israel shifted so sharply while U.S. policy has barely moved? The authors of the two major books on the Israel lobby take it on. In this special collaboration between the Quincy Institute for Responsible...
- 2 weeks ago9 min
Are Aircraft Carriers Obsolete? | Ask The Professor
Become a member to submit questions for future videos. Click Join: https://www.youtube.com/@johnmearsheimer/join YouTube channel member @JerryMcLaughlin-r8w asked whether drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles have made U.S. aircraft carriers obsolete, and whether the Navy saw it coming. Carriers have always been vulnerable near large landmasses, which is why we didn’t use them against Nazi Germany or plan to in a Cold War fight in Europe. The threat is now far greater, and the cos...
- 2 weeks ago1h 23m
Trump's Three-War Trap | Episode 13
Become a member to submit questions for future videos. Click Join: https://www.youtube.com/@johnmearsheimer/join ———————————————————— PODCASTS Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Ahf67i2DOoXDmi2HA6Vcj Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id6810828298 ———————————————————— DESCRIPTION President Trump bears responsibility for three ongoing wars: 1) the Ukraine war, which he inherited from Joe Biden but now owns; 2) the Iran war, which he launched together with Israel on 28 Feb...
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