But he's right more often than he's wrong, which is unusual for a political scientist.
Sometimes he comes across as gloating when he notes the stupidity and failure of the foreign policy establishment. But that's fine, the way he's attacked.
Is there a (preferably somewhat complete) list of predictions he's made publicly? I don't know a single one. Maybe some examples of his predictions that were correct or incorrect?
> Then in 2006, along with his co-author Stephen Walt, he wrote “The Israel Lobby”, which examined the complex of organisations that sought to encourage the US to provide material aid to Israel, often against American strategic interests. It was subsequently published as a book in 2007, and the argument saw Mearsheimer and Walt labelled as anti-Semitic, liars and bigots.
"An anti-Semite used to be a person who disliked Jews. Now it is a person who Jews dislike."—Hajo Meyer, Holocaust survivor.
The Ukraine war exposes the worst of what the media can be like during times of conflicts. There are calls for the West to wage war on Russia, but what is more alarming is dismissal of such calls are met with fervent diatribes. Such attacks are nothing new of course: La Follete warned us from more than 100 years ago.[0]
While the situation continues to escalate, the Western elites is unapologetically happy to be able to bleed Russia without spilling their own bloods, sacrificing only the people of another nation.[1]
But he's right more often than he's wrong, which is unusual for a political scientist.
Sometimes he comes across as gloating when he notes the stupidity and failure of the foreign policy establishment. But that's fine, the way he's attacked.