{"id":56868,"date":"2025-12-31T11:08:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=56868"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:08:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:08:31","slug":"john-mearsheimer-on-trumps-foreign-policy-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/31\/john-mearsheimer-on-trumps-foreign-policy-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer on Trump&#8217;s Foreign Policy in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/trumps-foreign-policy-in-2025\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a>:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 16 December 2025, I spoke with Afshin Rattansi on his podcast \u201cGoing Underground.\u201d We discussed President Trump\u2019s foreign policy performance over the course of 2025. I made clear that I believe there are few successes and many failures. His first year in office has hardly been an auspicious start and there is little reason to think things will change in 2026, which looks like it is going to be another bleak year on the foreign-policy front.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VVGzgWzBpUM?si=K7uA4sDxGRCwhGlL\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from John&#8217;s Substack:\u00a0 On 16 December 2025, I spoke with Afshin Rattansi on his podcast \u201cGoing Underground.\u201d We discussed President Trump\u2019s foreign policy performance over the course of 2025. I made clear that I believe there are few successes and many failures. His first year in office has hardly been an auspicious start and [&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-56868","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\/56868","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=56868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56871,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56868\/revisions\/56871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56868"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=56868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}