John Mearsheimer's 'Realism' Is UN-Realistic
He ignores ruling oppressive classes' fear of revolution and what that fear makes them do
At the very beginning of this video John Mearsheimer spells out what ‘realism’—his theory of how the world works—is. What is most noticeable is that he conceives of states, by which he means the rulers of the states, as actors that are concerned with the threat of hostile states, and not at all concerned with the threat of being overthrown—removed from power—by their own working class population. Mersheimer just ignores this fear of domestic revolution.
In contrast to Mearsheimer’s ‘realism,’ the reality, however, is that ruling oppressive upper classes are ALWAYS fearful of revolution by “their own” people. This fear of revolution is the reason why ruling upper classes wage wars against bogeyman enemies, and when necessary create bogeyman enemies, as a means of controlling “their own” people. I discuss this in great detail, with examples over many centuries of time and across the world geographically in my article, “Oppressors Need Bogeyman Enemies and Invent them When Necessary: which explains the actual versus apparent aims of U.S. imperialism.”
Wrongheaded “realism” cannot explain why the U.S armed the Soviet Union all during the Cold War. It cannot explain why Israel funded Hamas and worked to keep it in power for decades. It cannot explain why the Serbia and Croatia governments killed civilians of the opposite nation in the 1990s. It does not explain why the U.S. continues to wage the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine long past the time when it is obvious that Russia will win that war, refusing to negotiate an end to the war with Russia. It does not explain why the aim is to be AT war, not to WIN the war. My article cited above does explain these things.
Wrongheaded “realism” is the basis for the wrongheaded discourse that perceives the chief conflict in the world as between the nations (Russia and China and others) that want a multilateralism world versus the United States that wants a uni-polar (U.S. hegemony) world. I discuss what’s wrong with this understanding of the conflict in my article, “Xi Jinping's and Joe Biden's ‘Good Cop, Bad Cop’ Routine.” It concerns itself only with with what various ruling oppressive elites want, and ignores what the have-nots in all of the nations want.
I have come to the conclusion John is controlled opposition