Trump, Obama and the American Foreign Policy "Blob"

Trump, Obama and the American Foreign Policy "Blob" | Prof. John Mearsheimer

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6 ай бұрын

John speaks with Prof. John Mearsheimer about the American foreign policy "Blob" that stopped Obama and trump from achieving their international goals.
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John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980. He spent the 1979-1980 academic year as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Centre for International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
His recent and most notable works include, "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics" (2001), "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" (2007), and "Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities" (2018).
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@MicahScottPnD 5 ай бұрын

Im thankful to have heard that one.

@kristofferbook4946 5 ай бұрын

Who runs and controls the ”Blob”? The military complex? 🤔

@rageburst 5 ай бұрын

Think of it more as a tribalistic complex society with power brokers (example is Madeleine Albright), interest groups (example is AIPAC), many of whom act to keep their jobs. Even John Mearsheimer is part of the blob, but as a minority working in academics with little influence on the actual policymakers. This is a complex tribal society where academics say the right things, but exert little power because they're not hired as policymakers. The way to change the blob is non-trivial. You need to enter the field, but to make as many allies as you can, and there needs to be leaders capable of making courageous and hard decisions that would reform this tribal society. It won't be an easy path, and you may make a lot of enemies on the way. The military industrial complex is more a symptom of this blob / national security state / deep state. They're part of the blob. There will always be those who will profit from the situation, but they're not necessarily the origin of the problem.

@pertpesc7058 5 ай бұрын

They are not allies. They are colonies.

@franklinha2587 2 ай бұрын

they are our allies. (EU). don't believe whoever you are.

@jamesstratton4488 5 ай бұрын

Thanks

@truthbebold4009 5 ай бұрын

Just because they were allies 40 years ago doesn't mean they're allies today

@lettuceha3368 5 ай бұрын

The most important information in the world

@Io-Io-Io 5 ай бұрын

Link the full conversation

@konaone5087 5 ай бұрын

Welfare recipient countries can be bad allies that need corrective action

@tillschoeber4126 5 ай бұрын

why? Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilisation.

@AnnDale-ie3jn 5 ай бұрын

The United States is not going to have a isolated foreign policy to many American commercial interests would be harmed by such a policy

@jamesruscheinski8602 5 ай бұрын

divine central authority for diplomacy

@mohamedali2858 5 ай бұрын

The U.S. profits from international conflicts, exploiting them as opportunities to extend its influence, rather than genuinely fighting for freedoms and democracy. The U.S., under the veneer of promoting freedom and democracy, engages in proxy wars to serve its interests. The U.S. remains indifferent to the costs borne by other countries in these conflicts, so long as it secures its national interests.

@The2realistic 5 ай бұрын

Or another country's interests.

@owenhoong88 5 ай бұрын

America has no friends or enemy, only interest

@kingpriapatius5832 5 ай бұрын

John rules. Cheers from Greece.

@gailcook9238 5 ай бұрын

🥺

@Exodus26.13Pi 5 ай бұрын

🧡 2024 🎉

@rogeralsop3479 5 ай бұрын

More info.

@MapleSyrupPoet 5 ай бұрын

Your gonna get a tire for your car 🚗 in Canada? 🇨🇦 you will be given a Chinese tire ...China undercuts all others at retailers ...retailers forced to offer Chinese tires, almost exclusively 😢

@Eng0926 5 ай бұрын

So, american foreign policy establishment is unchangable?

@rageburst 5 ай бұрын

It can be reformed, but it's a non-trivial path, and the people who want change have to play it smart, pick the right allies and friends, and there needs to be courageous leaders to step to the plate to face the predominantly progressive liberals running this blob.

@user-is7up6ln6m 5 ай бұрын

Is trump going after neo cons

@ronb7481 5 ай бұрын

Another man who didnt understand Trump.

@jamesruscheinski8602 5 ай бұрын

divine central authority unity overcomes imposing political government around world by two state solution at UN

@andrew6815 5 ай бұрын

Trump as an isolationist/pacifist is the dumbest talking point that will not go away

@naveed210 5 ай бұрын

Fair to say that it's mostly peddled by centrists?

@andrew6815 5 ай бұрын

@@naveed210 it's peddled by centrists to try to disparage him for "ignoring our international commitments" (which shows how tone def they are thinking that's a winning argument) and trumpists arguing he's a pacifist alternative to the democrats (which is completely delusional based off his first term and all evidence)

@naveed210 5 ай бұрын

@@andrew6815 what do you make of Mearsheimer's 'realism' analysis to explain foreign policy?

@user-is7up6ln6m 5 ай бұрын

Is Uncle Sam in a jam cannot pay interest on 34 trillion debt

@thinker646 5 ай бұрын

Citation that he armed ukranians? I seem to recall he told zelensky that he should sit down and talk to putin snd resolve their problems. I can't quite recall' the exact words. That doesnt mean he DIDNT arm ukranians, but i need something to verify that claim! I feel like i do when i'm being gaslighted. Edited friday; This may actually be true. In one of the Ukraine channels that i watch, that seems t always to match all of the other Ukraine channels that i follow, they explicitly discussed this yesterday (thursday) and it was exactly what this guy says in the video. Im going to follow up with any other sensible suggestions others have given me to continue to be better informed.

@fgoogleinthea7475 5 ай бұрын

Anyone that says "...i'm being gaslighted..." has no opinion worthy of record.

@thinker646 5 ай бұрын

@@fgoogleinthea7475 oh, absolutely! Now, can you address what it means when a person says 'I FEEL like im being gaslit'.

@thinker646 5 ай бұрын

@@fgoogleinthea7475 💯! Kudos! Can you provide a credible citation? That's what i really need!

@thinker646 5 ай бұрын

@@fgoogleinthea7475 how about the person who puts it in quotes?

@rickykyle756 5 ай бұрын

Google “Trump praised for first weapons sale to Ukraine” a Newsweek article discussing the sale should come up

@5lowburner 5 ай бұрын

Think the error on Meerscheimers part here is to believe, if only by implication of his observations, that Trump is any sort of rational actor. We know Trumps only rationale is his own self-aggrandisement and what effect that has on foreign policy is purely incidental

@hitthurdeaux 5 ай бұрын

Praying for your TDS to pass

@shafthespaceegg 5 ай бұрын

I mean you’re right but I think his point is the “blob” is so powerful that it moderates Trump and makes him not able to do anything too crazy

@RajinderSingh-td5mo 5 ай бұрын

he gets paid/funded for this nonsense

@user-is7up6ln6m 5 ай бұрын

Then who runs the USA

@thegoodpimps 5 ай бұрын

america is a democracy, so it is run by a large collective of people, some elected, some appointed, some hired, some cooperating with each other some competitions with eachother, some sharing the same goals but differing in means and others differing in goals by sharing the same means.

@77Victory1 5 ай бұрын

How do you call Europe allies when they did not contribute to there defense.

@thegoodpimps 5 ай бұрын

america and europe cooperate hugely in trade, intelligence, infrastructure and many other areas to the point it would be such a huge loss for either to lose the other that it's unthinkable they would stop being allies.