{"id":58127,"date":"2026-03-13T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=58127"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:00:29","slug":"john-mearsheimer-on-the-unfolding-disaster-in-the-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/13\/john-mearsheimer-on-the-unfolding-disaster-in-the-gulf\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer on The Unfolding Disaster in the Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/the-unfolding-disaster-in-the-gulf\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 11 March 2026, I was interviewed on \u201cThe Chris Hedges Report.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Chris and I talked about the Iran war and what went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>In the process, we emphasized what history can tell us about where this war is headed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sl-sSsZnSP8?si=QTjyci7tMVyNrZc1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from John&#8217;s Substack: On 11 March 2026, I was interviewed on \u201cThe Chris Hedges Report.\u201d Of course, Chris and I talked about the Iran war and what went wrong. In the process, we emphasized what history can tell us about where this war is headed.<\/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-58127","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\/58127","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=58127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58131,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58127\/revisions\/58131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58127"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=58127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}