Not sure if John Mearsheimer has since reversed course but a year ago he was one of the loudest voices amplifying Kremlin talking points and blaming NATO for Russia's aggression. He was apparently financially incentivized to do so. See more in the archives/transcripts of the podcast Gaslit Nation at GaslitNationPod.com.
"At the top of a growing list, extremely dire warnings have come from the most senior leaders of China, Russia, North Korea, Iran..."
Yes, those 3 nuclear countries and 1 arguably near-nuclear country loudly threatened others with attacks. (Russia has gone beyond mere threats, invading other sovereignties, and presently is perpetrating massive war crimes in Ukraine. China is busy perpetrating ethnocide on its Uighur population.
It is not clear to me whether Dr. Lee means to in one or more ways liken the United States to these four very bad actors (my personal view) or contrast the United States with them. If only for the sake of her own credibility, I hope she doesn't mean to suggest that any of those four totalitarian governments are champions of serious "diplomacy, multilateralism, and holding abusive leaders accountable" and the US, notwithstanding its failings, can make no claim to being that.
Dr. Lee regards Richard Falk, an emeritus Princeton professor, as highly estimable, an "extremely thoughtful, independent, and principled voice()." What she fails to note is that Professor Falk has been renowned for many years as an earnest antisemite, someone who enthusiastically endorses the thinking of a really earnest antisemite, Gilad Atzmon. [https://gilad.online/literature/] And yes, both Atzmon and Fisk are all the more personally perverse, since they themselves are <i>halachically</i> Jewish.
Not sure if John Mearsheimer has since reversed course but a year ago he was one of the loudest voices amplifying Kremlin talking points and blaming NATO for Russia's aggression. He was apparently financially incentivized to do so. See more in the archives/transcripts of the podcast Gaslit Nation at GaslitNationPod.com.
"At the top of a growing list, extremely dire warnings have come from the most senior leaders of China, Russia, North Korea, Iran..."
Yes, those 3 nuclear countries and 1 arguably near-nuclear country loudly threatened others with attacks. (Russia has gone beyond mere threats, invading other sovereignties, and presently is perpetrating massive war crimes in Ukraine. China is busy perpetrating ethnocide on its Uighur population.
It is not clear to me whether Dr. Lee means to in one or more ways liken the United States to these four very bad actors (my personal view) or contrast the United States with them. If only for the sake of her own credibility, I hope she doesn't mean to suggest that any of those four totalitarian governments are champions of serious "diplomacy, multilateralism, and holding abusive leaders accountable" and the US, notwithstanding its failings, can make no claim to being that.
Dr. Lee regards Richard Falk, an emeritus Princeton professor, as highly estimable, an "extremely thoughtful, independent, and principled voice()." What she fails to note is that Professor Falk has been renowned for many years as an earnest antisemite, someone who enthusiastically endorses the thinking of a really earnest antisemite, Gilad Atzmon. [https://gilad.online/literature/] And yes, both Atzmon and Fisk are all the more personally perverse, since they themselves are <i>halachically</i> Jewish.