all right, look, john mearsheimer is a good friend of mine. i like him. but we don't agree. i mean people are, you know, people are, are in agree to disagree. i don't agree. and that point, i think important thing to understand about israel is israel is very much like a western society. it has the same kind of a bureaucracy russian, our, the modern out look, uh, that makes it very easy for the us to communicate with israel and communication is not a trivial part. the secure, the people, the intelligence people, they all have the same mental outlook. and so that's an irreplaceable factor for the us to have a what sometimes called a stationary aircraft carrier in the middle east where the whole mental outlook is held in common all. so it's still by far the most militarily confident. i, i'm, i'm not saying it's great. it's a good reputation. we got a very big reputation way and i don't think that was an accident re the right has set in and is really society. it's become less than nice. that means there's an element of slovenliness to the way they carry. they conduct themselves.

, unclipped the signal, the end of us, middle polarity, will ask renown political scientist, john mearsheimer, and it upfront special, the nearest time, or thank you so much for joining us on upfront. my pleasure to be here. it's been nearly 20 years since you co author, your seminal piece of titled the israel lobby, dealing with the lobby's undue influence on united states foreign policy. have there been any major policy shifts or any other changes or developments since you wrote the piece? well, i think there's 2 things have changed. one is i think that we help to open up this course about the lobby before we wrote the article and then the book, not many people talked about the lobby, explicitly, lobbies, influence on us foreign policy. and i think in terms of the discourse, uh, we had a significant influence in terms of actual policy. i think we've had little influence at all. i think that the lobby remains as powerful as ever, and american foreign policy of, towards israel and towards the greater middle east remains greatly influence by the lobby. i mean, one could argue you're here being

is to accept putin’s plan, which he proposed, putin really proposed very specific plans, and john mearsheimerure, which they themselves cannot formulate, and what they want in the future, they cannot formulate what they want in victory for ukraine, except for defeat russia, these are the things that, well, will you achieve something, what will it lead to? it is clear that it is impossible for russia to win the war, but they persist in looking for cockroaches on the wall. well, they have two goals, indeed victory over russia, like biden’s victory in the elections, in a week the first presidential debate, everyone is looking forward to it. biden went to the presidential debate, here is footage of him leaving to prepare for the presidential debate, which began with the fact that he was unable to get pregnant. into the car, he had a lot of trouble here plant, cheerfully, so cheerfully, yes, but the preparation is going on very seriously at camp david. in complete isolation, let's hear what cbs has to say about it. it will be intensive training overseen by former white house chief of staff ronn kl

including in the same west, here is professor of political science at the university of chicago john mearsheimeron russian targets in territory that used to be part of ukraine. you are returning to attacks on mother russia, and the russians are clear made it clear that they consider this a red line. i now believe that these attacks are unlikely to succeed and therefore the russians will not retaliate in any meaningful way. the big danger is that the west, and here we are talking mainly about the united states, will be drawn into a war, you will have a great power war. we have done everything possible from the very beginning to ensure that the americans do not take a direct part in the fighting, and this could drag us into a war, and that makes me very nervous. kirolna, well, they make them nervous, but nevertheless it cannot be denied that... related to nuclear escalation, in particular, as a nuclear power, the united states of america talks a lot about the fact that , in fact, it’s probably time to return to the topic of abolition a moratorium on the ban on nuclear tests, and this actually soun