John Mearsheimer, in his third appearance on “Endgame,” discusses the latest developments in global politics and paints a very bleak picture: he sees the international situation as dangerously tense overall—up to and including the possibility that the world is heading toward another major war.
The conversation addresses several flashpoints at once: the conflict involving/around Iran, the war in Ukraine, and the security situation in East Asia. As an overarching risk, he suggests these conflicts could escalate or become linked—and that as a result, even a nuclear exchange in the foreseeable future cannot be ruled out.