The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies. John Mearsheimer More Quotes by John Mearsheimer More Quotes From John Mearsheimer This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics. John Mearsheimer argumentbehaviorself She has admitted she was not hostile to the Nazis before 1940. She says she was anti-Nazi after 1940, but has produced no evidence that she criticized the Nazis then. She wrote anti-Semitic words in 1938–41, and there is no evidence she was compelled to write them. Queried on her anti-Semitic writings, she told me: "I have never written anything in my life that I did not believe to be true. John Mearsheimer
