{"id":14606,"date":"2026-07-21T19:27:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=14606"},"modified":"2026-07-21T19:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:27:39","slug":"mearsheimer-iran-raketen-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/latest\/mearsheimer-iran-raketen-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Mearsheimer: Iran\u2019s Missiles Shake U.S. Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and Prof. John Mearsheimer examine a war in which, according to Mearsheimer, Washington has no realistic strategy for victory. Their discussion focuses on further attacks against civilian infrastructure, Iran\u2019s growing capacity for retaliation, and the dangers facing U.S. bases, oil routes, and the Gulf states\u2019 vital water supplies.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>Mearsheimer draws parallels with Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq: military failure followed by repeated escalation. The conversation reveals how quickly the Iran war could expand into a humanitarian and global economic crisis\u2014while leaving open whether it ends in another \u201cforever war\u201d or a negotiated settlement.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>To read the transcript of the interview:<strong><strong><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Prof.-Mearsheimer_-Irans-Missiles-Shake-U.S.-Power.docx.pdf\">Prof. Mearsheimer: Iran\u2019s Missiles Shake U.S. Power<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>This video was produced by The Chris Hedges Report and published on their YouTube channel on the 19th of July, 2026. We have translated it into German and are republishing it today to help build opinion on this issue in Germany and beyond<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>We are transitioning away from YouTube. 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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\u2019s Center for International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. 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