{"id":55882,"date":"2025-10-28T19:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T03:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=55882"},"modified":"2025-10-28T19:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T03:30:45","slug":"john-mearsheimer-on-the-eternal-return-of-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/28\/john-mearsheimer-on-the-eternal-return-of-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer on The Eternal Return of the Same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/the-eternal-return-of-the-same\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 21 October 2025, I was on the Duran with Glenn Diesen and Alexander Mercouris discussing the war in Ukraine and US-Russia relations. Although it seems like there are important new developments at least once a week, not much really changes, at least on the diplomatic front. This war will be settled on the battlefield, where the Russians clearly have the upper hand.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aKQRrJtGIEc?si=4cI9QuQGNIWXgDCm\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from John&#8217;s Substack: On 21 October 2025, I was on the Duran with Glenn Diesen and Alexander Mercouris discussing the war in Ukraine and US-Russia relations. Although it seems like there are important new developments at least once a week, not much really changes, at least on the diplomatic front. This war will 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-55882","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\/55882","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=55882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55885,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55882\/revisions\/55885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55882"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}