{"id":56767,"date":"2025-12-19T08:18:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=56767"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:18:50","slug":"john-mearsheimer-on-flailing-around-over-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/19\/john-mearsheimer-on-flailing-around-over-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer on Flailing Around Over Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/flailing-around-over-venezuela\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 18 December 2025, I was on \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d talking with Judge Napolitano about the mess the Trump administration has created in Venezuela, the European efforts to steal Russian assets, and the so-called ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon, which the Israelis routinely violate. All subjects that are very depressing. I also took the opportunity at the end of the show to commend the Judge for performing a huge public service with \u201cJudging Freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c5cikB6G5y0?si=7ifuQ2OnORFap9hR\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from John&#8217;s Substack: On 18 December 2025, I was on \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d talking with Judge Napolitano about the mess the Trump administration has created in Venezuela, the European efforts to steal Russian assets, and the so-called ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon, which the Israelis routinely violate. All subjects that are very depressing. I also [&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-56767","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\/56767","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=56767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56770,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56767\/revisions\/56770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56767"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=56767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}