{"id":56608,"date":"2025-12-11T12:02:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=56608"},"modified":"2025-12-11T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:02:35","slug":"john-mearsheimer-says-europes-troubles-are-just-begining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/11\/john-mearsheimer-says-europes-troubles-are-just-begining\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer says Europe&#8217;s Troubles Are Just Begining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/europes-troubles-are-just-begining\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 9 December 2025, I appeared on \u201cJudging Freedom,\u201d where I talked with Judge Napolitano about the future of Europe and what is happening in the Ukraine war. We also talked about Prime Minister Netanyahu\u2019s efforts to get a pardon from Israel\u2019s president before he is even convicted as well as the US policy of murdering people driving small boats in the Caribbean near Venezuela. As was clear from a series of contradictory statements President Trump made about a video of one killing spree, he and his administration are having increasing trouble defending this policy. It is fortunate for them that the US is not a member of the ICC. Otherwise, they would run the risk of getting indicted.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cIkh_ZXs1Og?si=9oPb9TLVZVsbHvc5\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from John&#8217;s Substack: On 9 December 2025, I appeared on \u201cJudging Freedom,\u201d where I talked with Judge Napolitano about the future of Europe and what is happening in the Ukraine war. We also talked about Prime Minister Netanyahu\u2019s efforts to get a pardon from Israel\u2019s president before he is even convicted as well as [&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-56608","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\/56608","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=56608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56611,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56608\/revisions\/56611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56608"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=56608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}