{"id":56795,"date":"2025-12-23T05:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=56795"},"modified":"2025-12-23T05:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:41:15","slug":"john-mearsheimer-says-the-madness-goes-on-and-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/23\/john-mearsheimer-says-the-madness-goes-on-and-on\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer says The Madness Goes On and On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/the-madness-goes-on-and-on\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 18 December 2025, I was on the Duran with Glenn Diesen and Alexander Mercouris. We talked at great lengths about the surreal diplomacy the West is conducting with Russia and Ukraine and what this portends for the future. The answer of course is nothing but trouble \u2014 deadly serious trouble \u2014 for a long time to come.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3onO7SRkWd0?si=GRL9abqZbjlv4Np9\" 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 the Duran with Glenn Diesen and Alexander Mercouris. We talked at great lengths about the surreal diplomacy the West is conducting with Russia and Ukraine and what this portends for the future. The answer of course is nothing but trouble \u2014 deadly serious trouble [&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-56795","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\/56795","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=56795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56802,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56795\/revisions\/56802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56795"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=56795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}