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Only came across Mearsheimer a couple of weeks ago on YouTube. Obvious very quickly that he’s a fool.

Written four years ago. Do you know why few imagined US troops would get directly involved or that Russia would use nuclear weapons, John? Because it was blindingly obvious neither of those things would happen.

You can mock or rebut their ideas as much as you want, in the end, all you do is amplyfying their voice. That's exactly what they want. I never claimed to be very smart, but that constantly sharing their content might be a bad thing to do, even I realised. But what do I know.

I can think of a Labour MP who’d want to contribute to that

at this point the really scary thing is that there is no Deep State. I get Meersheimer's point, that "the guardrails" - what populists call the Deep state - filtered the worst of Trump's impulses in his 1st term. But now he has overawed and lobotomised the Republican Party. Poof! No more guardrails.