In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges interviews world-renowned political scientist Prof. John Mearsheimer about the U.S. war against Iran. At the center are Washington’s new sanctions strategy, the shrinking military options available to the United States in the Persian Gulf, and the question of how the balance of power in the region has changed.
Mearsheimer also analyzes the consequences for U.S. military resources, American allies, and the global economy. The discussion covers the Strait of Hormuz, dwindling missile stockpiles, rising energy and food prices – and the larger question of whether Washington still has any realistic path to end the war on its own terms.
To read the transcript of the interview: Prof. Mearsheimer: The Biggest Strategic Blunder of the U.S.
This video was produced by the Chris Hedges Report and published on his YouTube channel on the 30th of August, 2026. We have translated it into German and are republishing it today to help build opinion on this issue in Germany and beyond.
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John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980. He spent the 1979-1980 academic year as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
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