Welcome to today's program. My name is Glenn Dyson. I'm a professor at the University of Southeastern Norway.

With me here is my friend and colleague, Alexander Mercuris, from the very popular and informative Duran.

And the guest today, we were able to get back John Meersheimer, one of the most popular IRS scholars in history. So welcome. It's great to see you again.

It's great to be back with you guys.

So since last time we spoke, I would say that the world has become more complex and more dangerous.

Not only are we still fighting against Russia and Ukraine with no clear solution,

but also we see now that the situation has changed very much, I would say, over the past

two, three weeks as we seem to come to terms with that we're reaching the end of this.

But making matters worse, we also now have another war in the Middle East,

also yet again without any clear way of resolving it.

So today I thought we could really talk about the strategic considerations for the United States,

because it appears that the US decided to

prioritize its conflict with China, which was the idea behind Obama's pivot to Asia. However, at the

same time, now fighting in both, or at least seeing a lot of its resources being bogged down in Europe and the Middle East.

So I guess during the multipolar moment, when US grant strategy largely depended on upholding its primacy in every corner of the world,

it made sense to prioritize everything, but with less reduced capabilities,

in the new world, it seems that the US still prioritize everything, but then it ends up not prioritizing anything.

So, Professor Meersheimer, how, I know this becomes too many topics with Ukraine, Middle East and China,

but how are you seeing the current development? Is there a lack of strategic focus or what can

we expect from Washington at this point? I think, Glenn, on October 6th, the United States was in a situation where it definitely saw China as the principal threat.

They call it in the Pentagon the pacing threat.

But, of course, we were also involved deeply in the Ukraine war, but I think the Americans thought

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