{"id":57039,"date":"2026-01-07T19:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=57039"},"modified":"2026-01-07T19:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:58:33","slug":"the-venezuela-crisis-and-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/07\/the-venezuela-crisis-and-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer: The Venezuela Crisis and Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/the-venezuela-crisis-and-europe\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 6 January 2025, I spoke at length with Glenn Diesen on his popular podcast about ongoing events in Venezuela coupled with the US threat to conquer Greenland. We spent considerable time talking about how US policy on these two issues affects Europe.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-NQ3lnuYcXs?si=NsQyLi1q_N_btSfr\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from John&#8217;s Substack: On 6 January 2025, I spoke at length with Glenn Diesen on his popular podcast about ongoing events in Venezuela coupled with the US threat to conquer Greenland. We spent considerable time talking about how US policy on these two issues affects Europe.<\/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-57039","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\/57039","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=57039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57045,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57039\/revisions\/57045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57039"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=57039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}