{"id":3556,"date":"2026-06-12T05:04:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:04:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:04:04","slug":"talking-with-tucker-carlson-u-s-resumes-strikes-on-iran-a-clean-exit-is-unlikely-tucker-and-john-mearsheimer-react-9-june-2026%c2%b9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=3556","title":{"rendered":"Talking with Tucker Carlson: U.S. Resumes Strikes on Iran. A Clean Exit Is Unlikely. Tucker and John Mearsheimer React, 9 June 2026\u00b9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Prof. John Mearsheimer\u00b2 on genocide in Gaza, looming defeat in Iran and the potential of a nuclear strike in Europe :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 9 June 2026, I spoke with Tucker Carlson for about two hours on the Iran war, the Ukraine war, and a variety of other subjects as well. I thought we had a fascinating discussion trying to make sense of the fast-moving and often hard to understand events swirling around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b2John Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. A leading international relations scholar, he is known for his realist theory that great powers compete for security and influence. He authored The Tragedy of Great Power Politics and co-authored The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy with Stephen Walt, and has been a prominent voice in debates on the Iraq War, Ukraine, and Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. John Mearsheimer\u00b2 on genocide in Gaza, looming defeat in Iran and the potential of a nuclear strike in Europe : On 9 June 2026, I spoke with Tucker Carlson for about two hours on the Iran war, the Ukraine war, and a variety of other subjects as well. I thought we had a fascinating discussion trying to make sense of the fast-moving and often hard to understand events swirling around us. \u00b2John Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3559,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions\/3559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}