{"id":54964,"date":"2025-09-07T09:52:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=54964"},"modified":"2025-09-07T09:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:52:44","slug":"john-mearsheimer-on-how-not-to-run-us-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/07\/john-mearsheimer-on-how-not-to-run-us-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer on How Not To Run US Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 4 September 2025, I was on \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d talking with Judge Napolitano mainly about how foolishly President Trump is acting on the foreign policy front \u2014 driving India and Russia into the arms of China and causing a significant tightening of relations between China-Russia-Iran-North Korea. On top of all this, he seems to be getting ready to use force to get regime change in Venezuela., which is hardly a threat to the United States. The Trump administration is in a deep hole and digging deeper.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YUWr7SW_7CI?si=MINBycgiLCn7II46\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/\">John\u2019s Substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 4 September 2025, I was on \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d talking with Judge Napolitano mainly about how foolishly President Trump is acting on the foreign policy front \u2014 driving India and Russia into the arms of China and causing a significant tightening of relations between China-Russia-Iran-North Korea. On top of all this, he seems to be [&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-54964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54964","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=54964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54967,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54964\/revisions\/54967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54964"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=54964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}