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John J. Mearsheimer
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John J. Mearsheimer writes John’s Substack, a personal blog at mearsheimer.substack.com about politics and history. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “The Darkness Ahead: Where the Ukraine War Is Headed”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Substack posts by political scientist John Mearsheimer on Western morality, Israel's conduct in Gaza, Ukraine, and the 2023 outlook for the war. Commenters quote and cite them as sources for their own points.
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My personal Substack. Click to read John’s Substack, by John J. Mearsheimer,
Most-linked posts?
- The Darkness Ahead: Where the Ukraine War Is Headed2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-30
- Death and Destruction in Gaza2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-12
- Bound to Lose by John J. Mearsheimer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-02
What Hacker News says?
Who Caused the Ukraine War? https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/who-caused-the-ukraine-wa...
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on “Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted”Submitted Interview with Al Jazeera as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMearsheimer was right in 1993 (nukes). https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mears... He was right in 2014: https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Why-t... And he is still right: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/who-caused-the-ukraine-wa...
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on “How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA”Submitted Death and Destruction in Gaza as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> The argument is roughly that “the west” and “western morality” are critical institutions to be protected, and refusing to protect them is immoral. "The West" as a collective lost all of the moral high ground it was supposed to have during the past few decades and particularly last year. https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-moral-bankruptcy-of-t...
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on “I was wrong about the ethics crisis”Submitted Mearsheimer and Walt versus Nuland and Pompeo as a story · 1 points
HN discussionJohn J. Mearsheimer has weighed in on characterizing what Israel is doing against the Palestinians. "I do not believe that anything I say about what is happening in Gaza will affect Israeli or American policy in that conflict. But I want to be on record so that when historians look back on this moral calamity, they will see that some Americans were on the right side of history. What Israel is doing in Gaza to the Pa…
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on “'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture”Submitted JJM Address at the Arab Center as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMearsheimer was right predicting the war. Let's hope he is not right again: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-darkness-ahead-where-...
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on “To Make More Stingers, US Needs to Revive Production Technology from Scratch”Submitted My Fake AI Problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere's a Youtube video of a talk in which he predicts Putin will "wreck" Ukraine. Can't find it now -- Youtube unsearchabilty. However, there's this from 2023: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-darkness-ahead-where-...
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on “The Tragedy of John Mearsheimer (2023)”Submitted Bound to Lose as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bound to Lose by John J. Mearsheimer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Darkness Ahead: Where the Ukraine War Is Headed as a story · 1 points
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