{"id":54676,"date":"2025-08-19T12:19:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=54676"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:19:39","slug":"john-mearsheimer-am-i-morally-deranged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/19\/john-mearsheimer-am-i-morally-deranged\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer: Am I &#8216;Morally Deranged&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 August 2025, I appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@UnHerd\">UnHerd with Freddie Sayers<\/a> to talk about Ukraine\u2019s future in the wake of the Putin-Trump meeting. Immediately thereafter, Freddie interviewed Matthew Syed, a columnist for the <em>Sunday Times in London<\/em>. He and I have fundamentally different views about the causes of the Ukraine war and what is the smartest policy for Ukraine and the West moving forward. In addition to our different substantive views, Mr. Syed explicitly says I am \u201cmorally deranged.\u201d UnHerd has published both interviews together.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1NNXujNMbWQ?si=TZtX_OU99ZoZeaPH\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/am-i-morally-deranged\">John\u2019s Substac<\/a>k.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 August 2025, I appeared on UnHerd with Freddie Sayers to talk about Ukraine\u2019s future in the wake of the Putin-Trump meeting. Immediately thereafter, Freddie interviewed Matthew Syed, a columnist for the Sunday Times in London. He and I have fundamentally different views about the causes of the Ukraine war and what is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1054],"class_list":["post-54676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54680,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54676\/revisions\/54680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54676"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=54676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}