{"id":55107,"date":"2025-09-17T08:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=55107"},"modified":"2025-09-17T08:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:13:17","slug":"john-mearsheimer-us-failure-abroad-and-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/17\/john-mearsheimer-us-failure-abroad-and-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer: US Failure Abroad and at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 11 September 2025, I appeared on the \u201cThe Bottom Line,\u201d an <em>al Jazeera<\/em> program hosted by Steve Clemons. We focused mainly on the mayhem in the Middle East, although we also touched on Ukraine and the state of American democracy. Of course, it was another depressing, but hopefully informative discussion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lFDkF4-irhc?si=07GQYIn-IUW_xx_e\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/us-failure-abroad-and-at-home\">John\u2019s Substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 11 September 2025, I appeared on the \u201cThe Bottom Line,\u201d an al Jazeera program hosted by Steve Clemons. We focused mainly on the mayhem in the Middle East, although we also touched on Ukraine and the state of American democracy. Of course, it was another depressing, but hopefully informative discussion. From John\u2019s Substack.<\/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-55107","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\/55107","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=55107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55112,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55107\/revisions\/55112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55107"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}