{"id":57305,"date":"2026-01-25T10:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=57305"},"modified":"2026-01-25T10:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:56:24","slug":"john-mearsheimer-trying-to-comprehend-trumps-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/25\/john-mearsheimer-trying-to-comprehend-trumps-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer: Trying to Comprehend Trump&#8217;s Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/trying-to-comprehend-trumps-fp\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 22 January 2026, I was on \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d talking to the Judge about events involving Davos and Greenland. In the process, I laid out some of the key elements of my template for understanding Trump\u2019s foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D8W8d-_Q5tA?si=OIEg335NQ0dW7-yF\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from John&#8217;s Substack: On 22 January 2026, I was on \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d talking to the Judge about events involving Davos and Greenland. In the process, I laid out some of the key elements of my template for understanding Trump\u2019s foreign policy.<\/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-57305","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\/57305","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=57305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57310,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57305\/revisions\/57310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57305"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=57305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}