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The US Cannot Defeat Iran
On 10 July 2026, I was on the “Deep Dive” with Lt. Col. (ret.) Danny Davis, where we talked mainly about Iran, although we did discuss Ukraine in the last part of the show. On Iran, we talked about the tit-for-tat bombing campaign between I...
With Iran's Professor Marandi
On 6 July 2026, I was on The Community Alliance 4 Peace and Justice podcast with Professor Seyed Marandi from the University of Tehran, who is also closely linked to the Iranian government and often appears on other podcasts in the US. Alon...
The MOU Moving Forward
On 2 July 2026, I was on Rachel Blevins’s popular podcast. We talked about Russian progress on the battlefields of Ukraine, where that war is going to be settled and where the Russian are in the driver’s seat. Very importantly, Rachel and I...
Russia Is Winning in Ukraine
On 2 July 2026, I was on Glenn Diesen’s popular podcast. We had a lengthy discussion about where the Ukraine war is headed, emphasizing the extent to which Glenn and I almost completely disagree with the conventional wisdom among Western el...
Another Bay of Pigs?
On 24 June 2026, I was on the Katie Halper Show talking with Katie and Yanis Varoufakis — the distinguished economist and former finance minister of Greece — about many of the big issues of the day. Katie has just posted an excerpt of our d...
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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.
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