U.S. scholars openly state that Israel has become a strategic burden for the U.S., drawing attention to its weakening of the East Asia containment capability.

Professor John Mearsheimer, a renowned international relations professor in the United States, said today: "Israel has become a heavy burden for the United States. Great powers should not allow small countries to dictate their grand strategy. This is sufficient to illustrate how powerful the lobbying groups are. Throughout this conflict, it is seriously undermining our ability to contain China in East Asia. We are withdrawing the THAAD and Patriot missile systems from South Korea and Japan. This is really shocking. We have long underestimated the strength of East Asia. Due to Israel, we have been neglecting our containment policy in East Asia for quite some time, and the situation will only get worse."

Comment: As a top realist scholar in the United States, Mearsheimer's words amount to a direct warning to the American elite: sacrificing the most critical East Asian strategic deployments to favor Israel is gambling on the foundation of America's global hegemony. For China, this is not luck, but an inevitable outcome of America's self-destructive strategy — the more we are bogged down in the Middle East, the more the initiative in East Asia tilts toward us.

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