When the definition of morality is ambiguous, and when violence is easily justified, what logic will you use to guide your course of action?

PROFESSOR JOHN MEARSHEIMER A MAN OF INTEGRITY AND TRUTH,,,GOD BLESS HIM.

John Mearsheimer is the man for the moment. Finally after years of scholarship and analysis of world events, he's come into his own through podcasts and alternative media. He's great. And your conversation with him is one of the best. Thank you, Gita Wirjawan.

Bravo for Dr. Mearsheimer for his courageous expose of the Israel lobby. His books and public statements have done much to document the power of the Israel lobby in American politics and the government of the United States. He is to be commended!

At the beginning I was not fond of Mersheimer view, but he proved me wrong so many times, that couldn't help but to study his view with more attention and curiosity. He's been right on every single issue he talked about regarding international affairs. He's one of a kind, respects.

The sad thing about wars is that those who start or instigate a war are never in or even near the battle field themselves.

When Witjawan says Indonesia dealt with multipolarity in a good way, he seems to completely ignore the CIA coup that installed Suharto and wiped out millions of his citizens for supporting neutrality. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen him deal with this issue on the show, which makes the constant passive agreement anti-Sino remarks locate his loyalty in Washington rather than Southeast Asia. Good interview though. He got Mearsheimer to clearly illustrate the most key points on all of the issues.

John is so knowledgeable and is easy to listen to and understand. I could listen to him for hours.

감사합니다.

If I hear Dr. Mearsheimer I cannot stop listening. He is really a smart and an erudite man! Tks a lot fof this interesting interview 👏👏👏

One of the best interviews of Professor Mearsheimer. Thanks to the gentleman who is conducting the interview. He knows how to interview without any provocation and interruption.

It takes gut to talk against a powerful enemy like AIPAC . Thank you professor.

So much respect for him and his courage

"...be intellectually curious in the extreme..." Now that's a good thing to live by.

And one of the reasons that the United States usually obeys the rules is that we wrote the rules, and if a situation arises where we don't like the rules, we disobey the rules or rewrite them. That's the way international politics works. 1:11:00

Thank you Prof. Meirsheimer. You are a great American hero and a gift to humanity.

the question that has not been answered as of 36 minutes is if AIPAC has to lobby for things, how does AIPAC hold so much power over US politicians that they "fear" for their jobs if they don't capitulate to them? Who are the people that make up AIPAC?

I am so delighted the way Professor addressed the ludicrous "win the peace" argument of Kotkin who clearly was delusional when he rambled about it in a previous program. The exclusion of Russia and Russian interests is a recipe for war. It has been the case in 2022 and it will continue being the case until someone wakes up and gets the balls to negotiate for real.

It is such a pleasure to listen to Prof. Mearsheimer. Great conversation, thank you both!

Excellent interview. Greetings from São Paulo, Brazil.

Total John Mearsheimer Fan & Follower!!! Realist Rock! Thanks 🙏🏽 you having a true statesman on your show. I plan to read up on your materials too

Professor Mearsheimer is one of the most respected intellectuals, historians, geopoliticians in the U.S and the world! He’s among our most notable thinkers and visionaries just as Professors Noam Chomsky, Jeffery Sachs, Stephen Walt, Norman Finkelstein, Stephen F Cohen …

I think this debate would be a lot fairer and unbiased toward China if Professor Jeffery Sachs and Kishore Mahbubani are also invited. Their opinions would be significantly different from Professor Mearsheimer and that of the moderator.

Best interview of John Mearsheimer ive seen. Interviewer did an outstanding job, and John really captured some important perspectives. 👍👍

Thank you. Love & Respect from Seoul Korea

professor Mearsheimer is the national treasure.

Thank you Projessor Mearsheimer

Great interview! Very informative! Wish I could take a whole class from Prof Mearsheimer!

Gita does good stuff. Great guests and he asks good questions.

Thank you Professor Mearsheimer

Great prof. Gita..l am listening from Australia..

Thanks for your considerations , the World needs to pay attention in your words and thoughts

Great man with Reason and wisdom John Mearshiemer truth Matters to the whole world your voice Echo and heard by the righteous people around the world

I'm glad to see this man again and listen to his intriguing opinions about global geopolitical. Thanks, John. Stay healthy always.

Tiap kali buka YT, headline algoritma YT saya isinya konten pak gita, sebegitu seringnya hampir tiap hari saya menonton end game 😅. Terima kasih pak gita atas tontonan gratisnya dan sehat selalu🙏

It is truly an intellectually stimulating creative pleasure to attend Professor Mearsheimer's lectures. I feel that Prof. Mearsheimer is asking us the question, “Is there a solution to the problem of how to deal with the monster that is growing bigger and bigger with resentment and rage?　 I feel that Professor Mearsheimer is sounding the alarm that such a problem is materializing without our knowledge.

I love listening to Dr Mearsheimer

Oh Mearsheimer, how wonderful you are.

Thankyou so much for bringing this great man again.

Appreciate the thought and insight on this matter

This man is a real teacher. I wish he taught me in the university

Sometimes it's best to walk away with your losses and not lose it all.

People think of Mearsheimer as an academic, but Mearsheimer is also a soldier, which makes his analyses quite intriguing.

salute dengan Anda Pak Gita bisa mengundang akademisi dunia tentang power politics Dr. Mearsheimer, terima kasih Pak!

THIS IS BRILLIANT-THANK YOU -

Terima kasih banyak Pak Gita sudah mengundang kembali Prof. Mearsheimer. Saya salah satu pelajar yang mengidolakan beliau karena pandangan beliau terhadap isu-isu internasional. Melihat situasi Israel-Palestina yang memanas, saya sangat menantikan pendapat beliau mengenai hal tersebut. Alhamdulillahnya, Pak Gita menghadirkan beliau di Endgame. Luar biasa!

I'm amazed how sharp the professor is at 76 years old.

His voice is being heard in Australia

Professor is a True Legend.

As noted in Haaretz, Netanyahu seems to boast of his knowledge of the US by saying, "I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won't get in their way." He also boasts of manipulating the U.S. in the ongoing peace process, as the Washington Post points out: "They asked me before the election if I'd honor [the Oslo accords]," he said. "I said I would, but ... I'm going to interpret the accords in such a way that would allow me to put an end to this galloping forward to the '67 borders. How did we do it? Nobody said what defined military zones were. Defined military zones are security zones; as far as I'm concerned, the entire Jordan Valley is a defined military zone. Go argue." America, apparently, is moved by the Israel lobby. Evidence to the contrary has yet to emerge.

19:00 - Vietnam is hardly an "ardent supporter" of the US; it's simply pragmatic & realistic enough to stay equidistant between the US & PRC, so as to maintain its own independence, & play big powers off against one another for its own benefit.

Thank you for your great conversation!

Thank you gentlemen for a great interview.I appreciate your time and thoughtful talk. It was a pleasure listening to you.

Amen to the hubris-humility part

I have to say I love the final discussion about the Hubris-Humility index, this concept allows anyone no matter their age to be mentally agile. Also you can tell he's from New York, he pronounces the word "Idea" as "Idear", reminds me of all of my relatives that do this.

One of the BEST INTERVIEWS you can find on UKposts. Amazing Channel and interviewer! You can tell Mr. Mearsheimer enjoyed it as much as we have... props to you. If that's the Indonesian way of speaking i wanna be Indonesian!

Thank-you for this wonderful conversation!

so beautiful to listen to these carefully spoken words, thank you!

one of the best podcasts i have listened to. always very inspiring to listen to Prof Mearsheimer!

Thank you, Mr. Gita! An excellent interview!!!

Good dialogue but Gita disappoints in not pushing back on John’s well known hawkish views about China’s potential aims in East Asia, I think.

Would you please give an example of where China is trying to rewrite the rules?

Title got me interested and this conversation got me subbed. I look forward to watching the rest of your videos. Best wishes for you and your channel.

Dank an Sie beide aus Deutschland für diese umfassenden Analysen der Weltbeschaffenheit.

Professor is a knowledgeable man and has been telling us this for years this was all predictable

Survival of the fittest doesn't necessarily come through raw strength. Offering mutually beneficial relationships can be a source of real power.

Mearsheimer makes a lot of good points. Great discussion

Wonderful conversation!

Wonderful discussion..

*John Mearsheimer is easy to understand and he appears to be correct in his assessment of international relations.*

Dari sini kita paham bahwa PBB tidak akan berbicara banyak tentang genosida di gaza, hal yang menyedihkan untuk kita ketahui bersama di era sekarang. 😢😢😢

Such a complete wisdom. My admiration goes to the interviewer too.

Ini temubual kedua dengan Prof. Mearsheimer. Syabas kepada Gita Wijawan

john mearsheimer’s point of view based on the prediction that China is going to walk through the road exactly like how America did when it became a superpower, but he kinda ignored the history path of the chinese civilization, Chinese are just not the same like the Anglos. Chinese never had those colonial mentality, if they do, SEA are full of small countries, it should be easy for a elephant like China to manipulate those small states and exploit them, but on the other hand, China has only been building up economic connections and do more business with them.

God bless you for telling the truth

What a beautiful, sane and logically sound conversation! Even though, I disagree with them on Israel issue, that’s why more wise dialogues are needed. Thank you 🙏

Thanks for your honesty Mr. Mearshiemer

Thank you both ! From Brazil.

John is the founder in Geopolics of a School of Thought '' Pragmatism'', based on a deep understanding of the various forces in presence with a rogourous evaluation of their main assets (Vision, Military, Economy, Energy,,..). He proved to be right on several occasions .He remains for viewers a great source of a credible Info in Geopolitics.

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UKposts) South China Sea More Likely Flashpoint Than Taiwan Nationalism and liberalism are the two most powerful ideologies in today's world. Nationalism is a powerful force that shapes interstate relations. Liberalism is an ideology that leads the United States and its allies to believe they have a right to promote democracy around the world. Liberalism prioritizes spreading democracy and acting on moral principles, even if it clashes with realist goals. (Crusader mentality) Realism emphasizes state survival as the primary objective in the international system. Realist logic trumps other logics, including economic logic, in most cases due to the primacy of survival. Realism prioritizes state survival above all else, including economic prosperity and moral goals. When realist logic clashes with economic or moral logic, realism prevails due to the existential importance of survival. This raises questions about the effectiveness of multilateral institutions like the UN, vastly outspent by military powers. Multilateral institutions are created and controlled by powerful states, not the other way around. These institutions cannot compel major powers like the US, Russia, or China to act against their interests. The US, for example, often benefits from the rules it sets for these institutions and can disregard them when needed. China, as a new great power, is following established patterns. China is creating its own institutions (e.g., Asian Development Bank) and rewriting rules in existing ones to reflect its greater power. This is how powerful states behave in the international system. A recent article by Eliza Gheorghe argues that multipolarity increases the risk of nuclear proliferation. Under a unipolar system, a single powerful state can more easily police proliferation. Bipolarity can also lead to less proliferation if superpowers cooperate (e.g., détente between the US and USSR). A multipolar world, especially one with intense security competition between major powers, is seen as the worst possible scenario for preventing nuclear proliferation. This is because cooperation among major powers is needed to effectively control proliferation, and such cooperation is less likely in a multipolar world with intense rivalries. The US-China competition is used as an example where such rivalry makes cooperation on issues like controlling North Korea's nuclear program difficult. John Mearsheimer emphasizes the importance of intellectual curiosity for anyone who wants to understand the world. This curiosity should extend to various aspects of life, including international politics. Students should actively seek out the ideas of prominent thinkers and critically evaluate those ideas, forming their own independent understanding of the world order. Mearsheimer views his role as providing frameworks for students to develop their own understanding of international relations, not offering definitive answers. Students should actively engage with these frameworks, critically evaluating them and potentially forming their own theories about how the world works. This applies to all aspects of life, not just international politics. John Mearsheimer emphasizes the importance of both intellectual boldness ("hubris") and the willingness to learn from others ("humility") for students of international relations. Students should have the confidence to develop their own theories ("hubris") but also be receptive to alternative perspectives and the possibility that they might be wrong ("humility"). This "hubris-humility index" is a concept Mearsheimer developed with a colleague to emphasize this balance. Made with HARPA AI

Thanks Professor ❤

"the Australians gonna defend Taiwan with us"? I wouldn't hold my breath on that one - the population is certainly not keen at all on doing so or being dragged by the US into another useless war, gonna be interesting if our government, whoever it may be at the time, is going to be able to force us.

Udah 2x Pak John Mearsheimer jadi narasumber Endgame & saya selalu suka bagaimana cara beliau menyikapi sesuatu dengan konsep realistis yang beliau gunakan. Meskipun beliau warga negara USA tapi bisa memberikan pandangan secara menyeluruh tidak hanya dari sudut pandang USA saja.

Pak kalau boleh adakan dialog dengan Yanis Varoufakis

John Mearsheimer, what a human being!

Great discussion gentlemen.

Amazing guest

Maersheimer wants more military bases around China? Now he completely lost me.

The last 4 minutes was so precious❤

As a citizen of the world, it is imperative to be intellectually curious so as to use critical thinking to contribute to making the world better through agency! ❤

There are three miscalculation there about China. 1. There is no trade are influenced in SCS. 2. China will respond the contain strategy from US. No one likes repression. 3. China is not US, who wants to grab all. China is fine with South east Asia for thousands of years.

Another nice interview sir, appreciate 🙏

‘The reason u need a lobby … is because there’s a lot of instances where isreal’s interests conflicts with American interests and lobby wants to go to great lengths to make sure isreal’s interests prevail’ wow, quite simple but never thought of it this way.

Does Indonesian know if Indonesia ever become USA competitor Indonesia is the next on USA dinner table?

Professor Mearsheimer is the BEST. Cerdas luar biasa...

Great coverage, thank you

Whistling while we work! Many will say, why Whistling together? Keep watch!

Top shelf work. Thank you both.

A lot of respect for the professor. What I would like to hear is the consideration of the cultures' influences in the decision making, rather than focusing on how the rest of the non-Western world would make decision based on pure Western thinking. Remember, China would have to govern Taiwan island once they re-unified, which is unlike Israel (who would just go ahead to cleanse), or Russia (who would be happy if Ukraine remains a rump state).

The publication of this video is rather late, close to one month after the interview. While it is interesting, the geopolitical situation changed day by day rather fast. Still kudos for the effort 👌