Hi everyone, my name is Glenn Dyson and I'm joined today by Alexander Mercuris and a very popular

Professor John J. Mershheimer. Welcome.

Delonged you to be here. I am too, Glenn.

So I really wanted first to bring up the topic of the future of the so-called liberal international order,

because in the post-Cold War order, we commonly refer to it as liberal hegemony or liberal international order,

the principle being one central power to reduce the anarchy and international anarchy mitigate security competition. But this hegemony was also supposed to have the role of attempting to elevate liberalism in the international system

for the purpose of perpetual peace, as we know.

But not only is the hegemony gone, but it also seems that the liberal system may be collapsing as well, not just internationally,

but within the West as well.

So we see, for a long time already, I guess, government and corporations very much go hand-in-hand.

We have government-financed NGOs hijacking civil society.

It seems that economic liberalism is also over now with a lot of draconian tariffs on the

Chinese efforts to cripple their semiconductor industries.

None of this seems to be compliant with the WTO.

We're also now looking for ways to legislate theft to steal the reserves of the Russian central banks.

We have growing threats to transportation corridors, international law is regularly undermined.

We're now largely openly supporting and excusing genocide.

NATO's new slogan is weapons are the path to peace.

We see opposition, especially in the EU now, seems to be overcome with political opposition.

It's overcome with threats of sanctions or simply making up new rules and laws to overrun the opposition.

Political polarization.

I know in the U.S. lawfare is a big issue now in terms of concerns.

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