“Iran Won and We Lost”: John Mearsheimer Says Trump & Netanyahu Failed
May 8, 2026
“IRAN WON AND WE LOST”
PROF. MEARSHEIMER LAYS OUT THE OVERWHELMING PROOF OF HOW TRUMP & NETANYAHU LOST TO IRAN.
Foreign policy heavyweight Prof. John Mearsheimer just dropped a brutal reality check on the Middle East war. His verdict? The U.S. and Israel have failed across the board.
On February 27, 2026, the U.S. looked like a powerhouse. But since the war kicked off on February 28, it’s been a total disaster. Mearsheimer explains that while Trump is desperately looking for a deal he can spin as a win, the facts show he’s been backed into a corner.
Mearsheimer’s warning is blunt: the war hasn’t achieved a single pro-Israel or pro-American goal. Instead, it has wrecked the global economy, alienated European allies, and turned Iran into the clear regional winner.
The war didn’t make America or Israel safer. It just burned up our resources, broke our alliances, and handed the keys of the region to Tehran.
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English Script:
John Mearsheimer: You want to remember that we went into this war with four big goals and we have failed to achieve any of them. Zero. Right? No regime change. Iran’s ballistic missile force remains intact and is formidable. They’re still supporting the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and in terms of their nuclear enrichment capability, we may cut a deal that’s better than the JCPOA, but the key point is they’re not getting rid of their nuclear enrichment capability, which was one of the big four goals. So, we failed. And then when you look at what else has happened, Iran, which did not control the Strait of Hormuz on February 27th, now controls it and has a toll booth in it and has no intention of giving up the Strait. Furthermore, on February 27th, we had a very impressive alliance structure with the six GCC countries in the Gulf. That alliance structure has been shattered. Furthermore, on February 27th, we had all these bases in the Persian Gulf that looked very impressive. They’ve either been destroyed or badly damaged. On February 27th, we had done a very good job of pivoting to Asia. Not perfect, but starting on February 28th, we started pivoting away from Asia. Our ability to contain China has diminished significantly since February 28th because we’ve been moving military assets out of East Asia and furthermore, we have been burning up precious weaponry in the war against Iran. I could go on and on. What I’m telling you very simply is we have not achieved any of our goals and we’ve created a lot of problems since February 28th that didn’t exist on February 27th. We’ve lost. How can anybody plausibly spin out a story that we’ve won this war, that we’ve achieved what we set out to do? And the economic situation continues to deteriorate and the pressure on President Trump to settle is very great before we go off the precipice. So he, I am sure behind closed doors, is trying to figure out how he can get some sort of deal that he could possibly sell as a victory. How he can do that I don’t know. But I think that’s what they’re trying to do. But meanwhile, you can rest assured that the Israelis and their supporters, their many powerful supporters in the United States, are telling him in no uncertain terms that he can’t cut a deal with Iran that reflects the fact that Iran won and we lost.
