The United States should maintain a firm stance against the Iranian regime's nuclear and terrorist activities rather than pursuing a weak deal.

“The big mistake here would be to destroy everything that we have in terms of infrastructure, and then hand them the money to just rebuild it.”

He asserts that English-speaking nations should remain closely aligned and support each other's international undertakings.

“I think it's important that the English-speaking countries stand shoulder-to-shoulder. I think it's important that the great democracies uh, form a very strong partnership because this is a perilous world, more perilous now than at any time since the late 1930s.”

The United States is reluctant to impose severe sanctions on China for its trade with Iran because China possesses leverage through its control of rare earth and critical mineral exports.

“And the best idea I can come up with is that China is still wielding a big stick, and that stick is called rare earths. The US needs rare earths. It needs critical minerals. It needs to import those from China because China is basically processing almost all of the some of the critical rare earths t”

Qatar is strategically leveraging its diplomatic relationships with all parties to become a favored American ally and business partner.

“Qatar wants to make a play to be viewed as the kind of logical American diplomatic ally in the Middle East and a close business partner of the American capitalist class.”

Western nations need to adopt more restraint and modesty in their foreign policy as other nations view the Western order as hypocritical.

“We have to learn restraint and modesty in our foreign policy.”

America's primacy as the world's superpower is actively being eroded by its own aggressive foreign policy decisions and internal political distractions.

“So, it's creating what this is really doing is it's threatening America's primacy. So I am a big believer that America should be the strongest most secure state on the planet. I think that is good for us. That means that it does make it is valuable to be the top dog to be the number one strongest ec”

The U.S. lacks a clear national interest in Ukraine, and providing massive support benefits the military-industrial complex while fostering a dangerous, militarized society.

“I think that there's no major U.S interest in Ukraine I think much more relevant to American concerns is the continuing existence of the military-industrial complex and I think that sending weapons to Ukraine and giving them a blank check has I'm sure you've seen the numbers has been gre”

The United States is currently struggling to effectively undermine China's influence in global trade and technology due to its reluctance to confront China ahead of high-level diplomatic meetings.

“So, in the context of Iran, I think largely the US has had limited um ability to to to really undermine China's power when it comes to trade, technology, and geopolitics.”

The concept of a rules-based liberal international order since World War II is not an accurate interpretation of historical reality.

“I have pretty little sympathy with the thesis that there's been a a rules-based liberal international order um since the the Second World War.”

The current administration's erratic behavior and threats of mass violence have caused other nations to perceive the United States as a security threat.

“I had leaders from other countries telling me that they now in their meetings in their governments talk about America as a security threat. And like that like that's the we have to internalize in America. Like that is what is happening.”

The United States maintains an exclusive right to criticize Israel and actively suppresses international efforts at accountability through pressure and intimidation.

“If if you look at the US attitude, um it's only Washington that has the right to criticize Israel. No one else does. And that that helps to explain the hysterical uh campaign that they're now waging against um the ICC and the ICJ and others.”

The UK government's sanctions against Israeli settlers are a belated and necessary response to prolonged war crimes and settlement expansion.

“what you have right now is belatedly the UK government deciding after literally decades of these war crimes being committed at the expense of Palestinians that were finally not going to participate in those war crimes that enable them.”

The Israeli military occupation is the central driver of the conflict and is only sustainable due to unconditional support from the United States.

“And that only happens because the most powerful country in the history of the world gives it its blessing. There's no question There's no way they could sustain this without us.”

Islamophobia is accepted and promoted within Western democracies.

“It seems like in Western democracies is Islamophobia is accepted, promoted, and normalized”

He characterizes Israel's military actions in Gaza as war crimes and a genocide, arguing they should have pursued a peace process earlier.

“The UN has called it a genocide. I know people don't like it when I say that, but that's I said I would defer to what the UN findings were. And my view is that that Israeli government needs to have accountability for what they did.”