John Mearsheimer - Offensive Realism YouTube Stats

@johnmearsheimer · News & Politics · Updated Nov 6, 2026

John Mearsheimer - Offensive Realism channel overview

John Mearsheimer - Offensive Realism (@johnmearsheimer) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2024. It has 232K subscribers and 15M total views across 51 videos, an average of 302K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 185K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 417K views. Over the last 12 months, John Mearsheimer - Offensive Realism published 53 videos (47% Shorts), and 2 of them (4%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 12 days, John Mearsheimer - Offensive Realism gained 10K subscribers and 2.9M views, about 243K views a day.

How much does John Mearsheimer - Offensive Realism make?

Returbe estimates John Mearsheimer - Offensive Realism's YouTube ad revenue at $12K – $48K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.67 to $6.69, typically $3.35, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $3.4K.

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Upload schedule

John Mearsheimer - Offensive Realism publishes about 35.8 videos a month. Based on its last 53 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (23% of uploads), usually around 13:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

John Mearsheimer - Offensive Realism's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are John Mearsheimer - Offensive Realism's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Israel's Founder: We Stole Their Country454K views · Oct 13, 20266.3× typical views
• Invade Iran with 7,500 Troops?314K views · Oct 5, 20264.4× typical views
• Why Hamas Really Attacked Israel on Oct. 7 | Episode 121.2M views · Oct 12, 20262.8× typical views
• Why Ukraine Is Doomed | Episode 61M views · Sep 1, 20262.5× typical views
• China Wants the US Stuck in Iran169K views · Sep 30, 20262.3× typical views
• Was Oct 7 Legal Under International Law?162K views · Oct 17, 20262.3× typical views
• Israel Ran Out of Interceptors151K views · Oct 14, 20262.1× typical views
• Iran's Doomsday Response141K views · Oct 8, 20262× typical views

Latest videos

5 of John Mearsheimer - Offensive Realism's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Would Israel Nuke Iran?18K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• The Danger of a Nuclear Middle East | Ask the Professor107K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Trump Waited Until After the Election99K views · Nov 5, 20261.4× typical views
• Nuke Pickaxe Mountain, Then What?89K views · Nov 4, 20261.2× typical views
• Trump’s Post-Midterm Iran Plan Is a Loser | Episode 14396K views · Nov 4, 20260.9× typical views
• International Law Only Binds the Weak | Ask the Professor124K views · Nov 2, 20260.3× typical views
• Was It a Mistake for Britain to Fight World War II? | Ask the Professor274K views · Oct 30, 20260.7× typical views
• Israel Wants Weak Neighbors21K views · Oct 28, 20260.3× typical views
• Iran Can Devastate the Gulf States56K views · Oct 28, 20260.8× typical views
• Does Israel Win If the Gulf Burns? | Ask the Professor414K views · Oct 28, 20261× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 56K videos from 828 channels in this niche. 18.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 15K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2 to $8.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: ESdiario TV (117K subs, best video 72.9×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 147.4×), M6 Info (315K subs, best video 52.9×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 26.1×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 93.4×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379×).

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