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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

"Insanity" – John Mearsheimer on the US role in Gaza and Ukraine

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Click here for the full interview with John Mearsheimer: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/insanity-john-mearsheimer-on-the?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web For $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at www.usefulidiotspodcast.com Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Nancy Pelosi needs Russiagate Detox https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/nancy-pelosi-needs-russiagate-detox?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Professor John Mearsheimer, whose political analysis predicted today’s horrors in Ukraine and Palestine, joins Useful Idiots to give his take on what’s next in the world’s biggest wars. And since he’s been largely excluded from corporate media for his dissenting views, it’s more important than ever to get his word out. “What you have here is a real disjuncture between what the elites think and what the publics think,” he says of the two conflicts, in what is already a clear affront to the narratives of elitist western media. “There are recent polls produced by the European Council on Foreign Relations and the Quincy Institute that show that only 10% of Europeans and 12% of Americans think that Ukraine can win the war.” And when it comes to Israel, Mearsheimer explains that US policy is even further from what the people want. It’s not the voters who have a say, and even Congress (as pro-Israel as they are) isn’t in control: “I believe that 90% of it is accounted for by the [Israel] lobby.” Professor Mearsheimer deep dives into each war: he explains why the US tanked Ukraine’s peace talks to further instigate Russia and what he would do now if he was in Biden’s or Putin’s position. He also delves into the influence of the Israel lobby and how Biden has given impunity to Israel’s killing Gaza killing spree. Subscribe for the full interview for his full analysis and predictions on Israel’s assault on Gaza. 00:00 Intro 00:53 The Four Food Groups of News 22:17 Professor John Mearsheimer interview 23:17 Schools of political science thought 26:23 Is Ukraine losing? 29:26 What does Putin want? 38:47 Who's the real puppet? 44:07 Why does the US want war with Russia? 51:21 Western leaders screaming the quiet part 59: 42 When will the truth come out? 1:03:43 Gaza and US support for Israel's assault Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Halper.

0:08.0

I'm Mary medte. Hey everybody, thanks for joining us. Our website is Useful Idiots

0:11.5

Podcast. Please go there.

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Support the show, get bonus content, help keep us going,

0:16.0

and deliver yucks every week about how crazy our world is.

0:20.0

Top culture, weather news, one woman debates over shows that I watch because

0:27.8

Aaron doesn't watch any. Yes, riveting conversations between one person who actually watches movies and shows and also staunch advocacy for no more drinking on airplanes.

0:40.3

Yeah, that's Aaron may not you know Aaron more than makes up for not watching any movies or for shows.

0:46.0

He more than makes up for that with his passion about airline prohibitionism.

0:53.6

Yes, well speaking of passion, turning to our four basic food groups,

0:58.3

Democrats, if I'm right Katie,

1:00.1

have a passion for defending genocide right now.

1:02.8

Oh, they are very passionate about genocide.

1:05.0

Yeah, let's take a look at this great chat

1:07.5

with Nancy Pelosi, who's being asked about America's support

1:11.0

for Israeli genocide against Palestinians.

1:15.0

If you don't like what Israel is doing, and the President has made it clear that some of

1:19.3

what Israel is doing, he doesn't like, and you go on supplying them with hardware to do those things you own

1:26.0

this operation every bit as much as they do don't you? We don't we don't we have always

1:31.8

supported Israel as our national security friend largely because it was in our

1:37.5

interest to do so. Largely because it was in to do so. We had shared values at only democracy in the region. The behavior of

1:47.2

Netanyahu is in my view inexcusable in terms of how it has affected the collateral damage to children and families and the rest.

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