On 4 January 2026, John Bolton and I appeared on Tom Switzer’s new show — “Switzerland” — to talk about the US kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela. Although we were interviewed sequentially, the issues Bolton and I addressed were unsurprisingly very similar while the answers we gave were unsurprisingly very different.
John J. Mearsheimer, PhD, is an American professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. More recently Mearsheimer has attracted attention for co-authoring and publishing the article The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, which was subsequently published as a book.
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