{"id":55308,"date":"2025-09-27T09:33:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=55308"},"modified":"2025-09-27T09:33:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:33:35","slug":"john-mearsheimer-on-passing-the-buck-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/27\/john-mearsheimer-on-passing-the-buck-to-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer on Passing the Buck to Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 25 September 2025, I was on \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d talking with the Judge about Trump\u2019s famous Truth Social tweet where he subtly said that the US is turning responsibility for the Ukraine war to the Europeans and Ukraine, while at the same time he is going to great lengths as the war goes south to protect himself against the charge he \u201clost Ukraine.\u201d We also discussed the roots of America\u2019s harmful relationship with Israel and Tucker Carlson\u2019s comment that Netanyahu has been telling others that \u201cI control the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dMtCZnq-zLI?si=IakMPQFOA3cbCyAO\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/passing-the-buck-to-europe\">John\u2019s Substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 25 September 2025, I was on \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d talking with the Judge about Trump\u2019s famous Truth Social tweet where he subtly said that the US is turning responsibility for the Ukraine war to the Europeans and Ukraine, while at the same time he is going to great lengths as the war goes south to [&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-55308","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\/55308","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=55308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55312,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55308\/revisions\/55312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55308"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}