POWER TALKS WITH FIDIAS MEP AND PROF. JOHN MEARSHEIMER
Member of the European Parliament for Cyprus, Fidias Panagiotou (love him or hate him, he is making waves) proudly scored an over two hour private lecture on geopolitics with American Professor International Studies, John Mearsheimer. Mearsheimer is the architect of 'offensive realism', a theory explaining why great powers relentlessly seek dominance. A professor at the University of Chicago, he has reshaped global debates on war, power, and US foreign policy. His bold, uncompromising insights make him one of the most influential and controversial thinkers in international relations today.
Nov. 15, 2025 Fidias Podcast: The TRUTH They Won’t Tell You About Global Politics - John Mearsheimer.
Where liberal thinkers like Mearsheimer go wrong, is on the equality stuff, which is central to modernity. While Nominalism already did away with hierarchy, sloppy Enlightenment thinking equates Christian personal dignity with egalitarianism.
This takes them to the idea that one population is one-on-one interchangeable with any other. To them, we're all cattle, or cogs in a wheel. It's rooted in the mechanistic concept of the universe.
It is why they see no problem in open borders. And why bureaucrats in the European Union think of their power in terms of the numbers of consumers on their territory.
You can see them every day, proudly exerting moral superiority with the hubris of little emperors, drunk on power as their empire crumbles around them.
Ask not what makes them think they can win a war with Russia, while Europe fails in every comparison chart.
I also beg to differ with Mearsheimer on the nature of power. Power is not rooted in military capability either - which is brute force, not real power.
Going back into antiquity, the Persian Wars come mind when the small Greek nation triumphed against an overwhelming Persian force. If power is in numbers, this should not have been possible.
There are more examples of cases like that in history.
True power rests in economic prowess, which depends in large part on the quality of the population. That power can be backed up by hard power -- military capabilities -- and/or the soft power of diplomacy, cultural and political influence, etc.
A country with a large population of idiots will never produce a great economy, nor will it have superior military power. All these things matter.
Mearsheimer is a major thinker on these subjects, yet misses this common sense nuance because he lives in the conceptual box of the modernist framework, that is blind to hierarchy and mistakes equality for radical egalitarianism.
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