Mearsheimer: From 1971 to 2021, U.S. murdered 38 million people. The amount of havoc we have wrought on the Middle East in recent years is just stunning. What we do in places like Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, we use economic leverage to basically starve people, to make them suffer. 1/Mearsheimer: Why do you want to be a regional hegemon? There is no better way to maximize your security than to be a regional hegemon. We have a Monroe Doctrine. Why shouldn't China have a Monroe Doctrine? What's good for the goose is good for the gander. 2/Mearsheimer: The most intense part of the competition between the United States and China is not military, it's economic and cutting edge technologies. It's things like AI, quantum computing. There is an incredibly important race to see who is on the cutting edge. 3XThank you for reading this post! Please also consider donating to support Ukrainian students who study during the war if this cause resonates with you.

Mearsheimer: From 1971 to 2021, U.S. murdered 38 million people. The amount of havoc we have wrought on the Middle East in recent years is just stunning. What we do in places like Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, we use economic leverage to basically starve people, to make them suffer. 1/ ... Mearsheimer: Why do you want to be a regional hegemon? There is no better way to maximize your security than to be a regional hegemon. We have a Monroe Doctrine. Why shouldn't China have a Monroe Doctrine? What's good for the goose is good for the gander. 2/ ... Mearsheimer: The most intense part of the competition between the United States and China is not military, it's economic and cutting edge technologies. It's things like AI, quantum computing. There is an incredibly important race to see who is on the cutting edge. 3X ... Thank you for reading this post! Please also consider donating to support Ukrainian students who study during the war if this cause resonates with you.