American political scientist and professor John Mearsheimer warned in an interview that if Israel starts losing its war on Iran, it will not hesitate to use nuclear weapons.

He described Israel as the most ruthless state on the planet and warned that its influence in Washington has dragged the US into a war it never should have fought.

Professor Mearsheimer warns that “no country on the planet is more cruel and deadly than Israel,” and cautions that if Israel begins to lose its war against Iran, it would not hesitate to consider using nuclear weapons. pic.twitter.com/TAFN9YiAxm

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) March 12, 2026

Israel have Trump in the palm of their hand

On the one hand – Mearsheimer describes Trump as a unilateralist who rejects international law and treats allies with contempt in the interview.

However, Mearsheimer suggests that Netanyahu has such a powerful hold on him that Trump’s unilateralist, deal-making persona can’t stand up to the pressure from the Israel lobby.

His damning judgement on Israel was shared by social media users.

“There is no state on the planet more ruthless, more murderous than Israel.”

Professor John Mearsheimer warns that if Israel starts losing the war against Iran, they will not hesitate to use nuclear weapons. pic.twitter.com/m3Re0fsp2Z

— DOAM (@doamuslims) March 12, 2026

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American professor John Mearsheimer:

“This is a remarkably dangerous situation.

There is no state on the planet more ruthless, more murderous than Israel.

The idea that they would use nuclear weapons against Iran is certainly plausible. And I really worry about this scenario.” pic.twitter.com/1dASTInqMU

— sarah (@sahouraxo) March 12, 2026

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Furkan Gözükara described it as the “ultimate nightmare scenario” to emphasize that, according to Mearsheimer, a nuclear strike represents the absolute worst  outcome.

Wow Mearsheimer warns of the ultimate nightmare scenario: Israel using nuclear weapons against Iran. Since conventional weapons cannot stop Iran’s nuclear program, Israel is highly likely to launch a nuclear strike. pic.twitter.com/0XiYvJni24

— Furkan Gözükara (@FurkanGozukara) March 12, 2026

Iran won’t back down

In the interview, Mearsheimer stated that Israel’s goal is to “wreck” Iran.

He also pointed out that last year’s 12-day war ended because the Israelis and Americans decided to stop—not the Iranians.

In the current conflict, because the war poses an existential threat to the Iranian state, Mearsheimer argued that Iran can play the “long game.” He noted that they have enough short-range missiles and drones to sustain a prolonged conflict.

Other Mearsheimer clips are gaining traction on X, including his reference to a Lancet report stating that between 1971 and 2021, the U.S. murdered 38 million people through sanctions.

Prof. John Mearsheimer: Between 1971 and 2021, the US murdered 38 million people pic.twitter.com/QqzcVx8vHv

— Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) March 9, 2026

As damning as Mearsheimer’s critique of Trump is, his judgment on Israel cuts far deeper.

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has insinuated that employers are abusing Access to Work. All so they don’t have to employ further staff or pay for reasonable adjustments.

Top DWP civil servants gave evidence at the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and National Audit Office’s (NAO) joint inquiry into Access to Work. The department has rightly come under scrutiny for completely fucking up the scheme, which is supposed to help disabled people stay in work.

The department came under fire for not only horrendous delays to accessing the scheme, but how much they’re completely stripping away previously agreed support.

DWP blames employers for Access to Work failures

However, this is the DWP, so they had an excuse. And as expected it’s complete fucking bollocks. Instead of admitting that they’re cutting support to save a few quid, they blamed employers.

DWP permanent secretary Peter Schofield said one of the problems was employers expecting Access to Work to provide things that should be covered under reasonable adjustments such as “ergonomic chairs”. Which to be fair, big employers should pay for, but it could also be a hindrance to employ a disabled person for smaller employers.

But then he also made an even worse claim:

The support worker plays a massively important role for so many customers, but we were seeing job aides whose role was not to help level the playing field up for customers with disabilities, but more to do a task that would be something that actually an employer would normally take on an additional employer to do.

So it was sort of misusing the scheme in a way that was inappropriate.

To put it clearly, the DWP is accusing employers of getting government-funded support workers instead of paying an extra employee.

He then explained this more explicitly

You can just imagine in a busy office environment what exactly is your role? I mean, are you doing this really important support work that was described by this customer in this case study, or are you doing something that is actually enabling the employer to avoid having to employ an extra person on the taxpayer’s expense?

And there it is, the reminder that disabled people are scrounging off the taxpayer. This, coupled with comments on the “changing nature of disability” and eligiblity reminds you what the DWP truly thinks of disabled people.

Neil Couling proving he’s still the worst person at the DWP

Of course, Neil Couling couldn’t resist getting in on this. Couling is most recently known for saying the carers allowance was carers own fault, actually.

He made an even wilder claim about employers abusing the system:

I’ve seen applications coming from big employers who, they literally have an access to work department, their job is in funnelling claims to DWP, I mean, at one level, I don’t mind that, if they also have a bigger reasonable adjustments team, they’re looking at what they can do in their own department under the Equalities Act, to do what they should be doing already.

He also attempted to justify why so many are now seeing their funding cut. Couling said:

We were making mistakes on cases in 23, 24, as we attempted to clear that backlog, as Peter suggested, in too much of a hurry,

So those cases are coming up now for renewal, and they are producing lower awards, and people are saying, ‘Why have I got a lower award? Nothing has changed in my life.’

But we’d wrongly gave them a job aide, normally for 100% of the time, and we should have given them about 20% of the time. Because the job aides are not designed to do the work, they’re meant to support, lift the disabled person to the same level of… an employee.

The end of this part here was truly bizarre to watch. Couling seemingly meant ‘nondisabled person’, not employee, but struggled to find the word. I’ve edited it out for clarity in the quote, but he actually said

lift the disabled person to the same level of a, of a, umm yknow, of an an employee.

I can only speculate, but it appeared like his internal monologue was going ‘don’t say normal person, don’t say normal person!’

They just doesn’t care about disabled people

They also couldn’t resist a sly dig at neurodivergent and mental health conditions. Speaking on the subject, Bill Thorpe, DWP director for disability and health support said:

It’s a kind of societal phenomenon that is very challenging. The Department for Health and Social Care are looking at this in their review into prevalence and what’s the best approach to support people.

The review he’s referring to here is Streeting’s obsession with overdiagnosis, which was disproven last week by thirty-two experts. It’s also happening at the same time that the DWP is working to tighten eligibility criteria for PIP.

It’s clear from the DWP’s evidence that they still don’t hold the tiniest shred of guilt or shame over the way they treat disabled people. The DWP don’t actually care about fixing their problems to best support disabled people, they’d much rather make it everyone else’s fault. But they’d especially rather use any way they can to tear down the very people they’re supposed to support

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Indicted war criminal Yoav Gallant has issued a new call for genocide in Lebanon during an appearance on Israeli TV.

“We need to strike and eliminate everything that’s in Dahiya, Baalbek, Tyre, Sidon, Nabatieh, everywhere”

Yesterday, Channel 12: Wanted war criminal Yoav Gallant calls for genocidal measures in Lebanon and Iran, and says that for “every bomb Israel drops, the Americans drop 2-3” https://t.co/GwA5ceGz1u pic.twitter.com/g8Q84IzNNH

— B.M. (@ireallyhateyou) March 12, 2026

He said that, in Lebanon, Israel needed to:

Eliminate everything that exists in Dahiya, Baalbek, Tyre, Sidon, Nabatieh, everywhere.

Israel is telling the world exactly what it is going to do to Lebanon.

It sounds a little bit like, erm, war crimes?

The war criminal wanted by the ICC is as it again.

More innocent civilians will die, thanks to Israel. https://t.co/2lXWS9TBg4

— Ayesha Bagus 🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 (@Ayesha_Bagus) March 1, 2026

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And it’s exactly what it did to Gaza.

International arrest warrant for man threatening Lebanon

Yoav Gallant is the former Minister of Defence of Israel, and the International Criminal Court currently has a warrant out for his arrest – along with one for Benjamin Netanyahu.

The charges against him are that he is:

Allegedly responsible for the war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare and of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024.

In other words, genocide.

He also described Israel’s three goals against Iran. Importantly, the third goal is “command and control” because powerful white men love nothing more than controlling black and brown people.

Reminding us why Yoav Gallant has an international arrest warrant on his head for genocide https://t.co/4GT2icT4Gy

— Cuniculus Villas (@CuniculusV15634) March 13, 2026

This is the same war criminal who threatened Palestinians during Ramadan in 2024.

Can anyone watch this video of Yoav Gallant congratulating/threatening Palestinians for Ramadan, and honestly say that he doesn’t think this guy is a psychopath? Seriously, it seems like he could just blow up any second. pic.twitter.com/5xSCoLKkHr

— B.M. (@ireallyhateyou) March 11, 2024

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On October 9, 2023, Gallant said publicly:

I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly.

He made his genocidal intentions for Gaza clear from the start – and still, the world stood idly by.

He is nothing but a war criminal.

Yoav Gallant is a genocidal war criminal who told the world – at the start – Israel’s intent to starve the people of Gaza.

He is also regarded as too moderate by Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabal.

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His firing means an escalation of Israel’s genocidal mayhem. https://t.co/LmTEatZO6P pic.twitter.com/QgMO0zIFMc

— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) November 5, 2024

Now, Gallant is making public statements about Israel’s intentions for Lebanon. Once again, the world is siding with Israel, despite watching the settler-colonial terrorist state indiscriminately kill for years.

Again and again they tell us exactly what they are going to do and our media tells us they’re not. Millions of people displaced, losing everything because this tiny country’s messianic supremacist government tells them to. Why can’t they be stopped? https://t.co/7uuhSCBhAE

— Gus Sproul (@AngusSproul) March 13, 2026

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The Dahiya doctrine

Israel is no stranger to using disproportionate force.

The Dahiya Doctrine is an Israeli military doctrine that calls for the use of massive, disproportionate force and the deliberate targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure. Genocide is literally written into Israeli military doctrine.

Who the hell do these people think they are? The Yoav Gallants, the Lindsey Grahams, the Benjamin Netanyahus & Donald Trumps.

They’re ignorant, arrogant, entitled old men – yet they seem to have most of the world trembling before them.

Stop trembling & take the bastards out https://t.co/Oidlm4Zu6y

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— Karyn Taylor-Moore (@TaylorMooreK) March 2, 2026

Would any other state (except the US!) get away with such a violent military policy?

The policy of the Israeli state is explicitly to target family and children, which is part of “The Dahiya Doctrine”. Name another state that has such an explicit policy. https://t.co/688GBsjNri

— Ashok Kumar | 🇵🇸 (@broseph_stalin) February 20, 2026

It seems the more Israel gets a taste of its own medicine, the more it tries to prove a point by eliminating innocent people.

The more Israel gets its ass kicked by Iran, the more it is desperate for a “victory” by genociding its neighbors. Israel is a sadistic, racist threat to millions of human lives and needs to be promptly legally dismantled. https://t.co/VWpwAMkrGO

— Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) March 12, 2026

Yet still, Western governments want us to believe that Hamas and Hezbollah are the bad guys. Meanwhile, Trump and his pals are getting away with raping children:

Western governments are supporting delusional, genocidal monsters in Israel. Yet the Epstein Class waonts you to blame Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas. Think about that. #GMB #BBCBreakfast #r4today #EpsteinFury #KeirStarmer #Trump #Macron #Merz #No2NATO #IranWar #Lebanon #Iraq #US https://t.co/G1C2umT7Ex

— Penforjustice (@Penforjustice) March 13, 2026

But the biggest terror cell is Israel – and it’s using the same genocidal rhetoric we’ve seen for years in Gaza.

Over and over again, Israeli politicians tell the world what they are going to do. The media ignores it, refuses to use the word genocide and then watches as Israel exterminates thousands of people and displaces even more.

Israel does not want to free Lebanon from Hezbollah, or women from the Iranian regime. It wants genocide, blood, and death.

And let’s not forget they’re doing all of this during Ramadan – showing once again how little regard Israel has for Muslim lives.

Featured image via Sky News/YouTube 

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