Good evening. It's Friday the 13th of October. Welcome to a new episode of

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here on rumble the free speech alternative to YouTube tonight. Professor

Stephen Wald is a professor of international relations at the Harvard

Kennedy School of Government.

He has long been one of the most independent-minded in interesting voices on foreign policy

in American academia.

In 2007, he teamed with University of Chicago Professor John Meersheimer, who was recently on our show for one of our most watched episodes, to write the extremely controversial at the time book entitled the Israel Lobby

which documented the array of powerful lobbying groups that dominate Washington

groups like Planned Parenthood, the NRA, corporate lobbies

and lobbies for the military industrial complex.

And the duo described how the Israel Lobby

devoted to ensuring bipartisan support for Israel

in its various struggles and wars has become one of the most successful

and effective lobbies in Washington. Like Meersheimer, Professor Walt is

regarded as a leading voice of the so-called realist school of foreign policy and

international relations. Since 9-11 the school of thought has typically found

expression in opposing the numerous American wars, regime change operations, and interventions,

arguing that the U.S. fights far too many wars and far too easily resorts to the military

option. In places like Iraq, Syria,

Libya, Afghanistan, and now in Ukraine,

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