In this video, political scientist and international relations expert John Mearsheimer explains why he believes a U.S. victory in the war against Iran is impossible. He analyzes Washington’s failed military strategies and shows why Trump’s negotiating position is deteriorating with every passing month.
Mearsheimer concludes that Trump no longer has a viable strategy for winning the war—and that reaching an agreement with Iran has now become not only necessary, but significantly more difficult.
This video was produced by John Mearsheimer and published on his YouTube channel on the 30th of July, 2026.
To read the transcript of the interview: Prof. John Mearsheimer – Trump Must Admit His Defeat in Iran | Episode 2
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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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