{"id":55673,"date":"2025-10-15T07:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=55673"},"modified":"2025-10-15T07:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:22:14","slug":"john-mearsheimer-on-peace-in-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/15\/john-mearsheimer-on-peace-in-our-time\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer on Peace in Our Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/peace-in-our-time\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 13 October 2025, I was on \u201cPiers Morgan Uncensored\u201d talking about President Trump\u2019s grandiose claims about his success at ending the war in Gaza (genocide would be a more accurate term) and facilitating the \u201chistoric dawn of a new Middle East.\u201d I made the case that regrettably Trump has done no such thing. Although I did not say this to Piers, when I listen to Trump\u2019s boasts, I cannot help thinking about Neville Chamberlain\u2019s famous boast that he had brought peace to Europe at Munich in 1938.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l2QOyxuqXcQ?si=w-YFBP4oh5t1kO5c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from John&#8217;s Substack: On 13 October 2025, I was on \u201cPiers Morgan Uncensored\u201d talking about President Trump\u2019s grandiose claims about his success at ending the war in Gaza (genocide would be a more accurate term) and facilitating the \u201chistoric dawn of a new Middle East.\u201d I made the case that regrettably Trump has done [&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-55673","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\/55673","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=55673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55680,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55673\/revisions\/55680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55673"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}