Wow.
John Mearsheimer: "There's no question a nuclear armed Iran would bring stability to the region. If Iran had a nuclear deterrent there's no way the US or Israel would be threatening to attack Iran right now. If you had a Middle-East where other states aside from Israel had a… pic.twitter.com/dqJlBKtx4O
— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) April 8, 2025
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That's where you get if you think all the problems in the Middle East are down to Israel, and cover your ears when Iran repeatedly broadcasts its divinely-inspired mission to wipe the Jewish state off the face of the earth.
He's the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, you'll be pleased to hear.
In his 2007 book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, Mearsheimer argues that the Israel lobby wields disproportionate influence over U.S. foreign policy. His more recent work focuses on criticism of the "liberal international order" and why he believes the West is to blame for the Russo-Ukrainian War.
And a favourite of the London Review of Books, as I recall.
Mick Hartley 
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