Prof. John Mearsheimer on U.S./Israeli War with Iran, Gaza, Trump's Foreign Policy, and More
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Prof. John Mearsheimer on Trump's attempt to renegotiate an Iran nuclear deal, the U.S./Israeli war with Iran, Israel's U.S.-backed destruction of Gaza, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. It's Tuesday, June 24th. |
| 0:18.6 | Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that |
| 0:21.7 | airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech |
| 0:27.3 | alternative to YouTube. Tonight, the past 10 days were filled with extremely weighty and |
| 0:32.8 | consequential events in foreign policy, obviously, beginning of course, with Israel's attack on Iran and then |
| 0:39.0 | Donald Trump's decision to bomb that country's nuclear facilities. Though that was ended relatively |
| 0:45.4 | quickly, at least it seems so, and one certainly hopes, the fallout is likely to be vast and |
| 0:50.9 | will unfold over the next many months. The understandable focus on that war in Iran has also though served to obscure other |
| 0:58.9 | perhaps equally significant events, including this still worsening Israeli destruction of |
| 1:04.0 | Gaza. |
| 1:05.2 | The economic and political fallout from this war, the one we just had in Iran, the prospect |
| 1:09.8 | of future regional conflict there, |
| 1:12.2 | the ongoing war in Ukraine, remember that one, that's still going on, and also what we learned |
| 1:16.7 | from all of these events about Trump's foreign policy. Given the importance, but also the |
| 1:21.6 | complexities of all of these developments, we are thrilled to have one of the most knowledgeable |
| 1:26.0 | and clear thinking voices anywhere in our political discourse. |
| 1:28.3 | He is professor of international relations and political science at the University of Chicago. |
| 1:33.3 | John Meersheimer, Professor Mearsheimer really doesn't need any introduction, especially for our viewers who have seen him on this show many times over the past several years and is one of our most popular and certainly one of our most enlightening guests. |
| 1:48.0 | He's the author of the genuinely ground-breaking 2007 book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, as well as the highly influential 2014 article in the Journal of Foreign Affairs entitled |
| 2:01.6 | Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West's fault. |
| 2:04.6 | We have a lot to talk to him with about and we will get to it very shortly. |
| 2:10.6 | Just as one quick programming note, system update is also available in podcast form. |
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