John Mearsheimer on US Sanctions
John Mearsheimer says American sanctions killed 38 million people and calls out the hypocrisy of wanting to liberate Iran. He points out how the US uses economic leverage to inflict punishment on populations in Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran to force regime change. The speaker describes the consequences of the Iraq War and actions in the Middle East as stunning havoc. Given all that, he finds it very difficult to talk about the United States as a noble country. Destroying livelihoods while claiming to save people is just absurd.
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71 to 2021, and it asked what were the consequences of those sanctions, and we murdered 38 million people. 38 million people. The amount of havoc we have wrought on the Middle East in recent years is just stunning. If you think about the consequences of the Iraq War, what we do in places like Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, And you understand we're using this tremendous economic leverage we have to basically starve people, to make them suffer, to inflict great punishment on them so that they'll rise up against their government. You understand that this is what we're doing in Venezuela. This is what we're doing in Iran. We're inflicting massive punishment on these people. Given all that, I find it very difficult to talk about the United States as a noble country. I just don't think
