{"id":58152,"date":"2026-03-14T15:43:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=58152"},"modified":"2026-03-14T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:43:36","slug":"john-mearsheimer-says-the-us-is-bound-to-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/14\/john-mearsheimer-says-the-us-is-bound-to-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer says the US Is Bound To Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/bound-to-lose-6d\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a>:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 11 March 2026, I was on Al Jazeera talking about: 1) why the US and Israel are doomed to lose the war in Iran as well as 2) the importance of the Israel lobby in shaping US foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TXX39ly5LTs?si=utVxMo-RCIagv7Hm\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from John&#8217;s Substack:\u00a0 On 11 March 2026, I was on Al Jazeera talking about: 1) why the US and Israel are doomed to lose the war in Iran as well as 2) the importance of the Israel lobby in shaping US 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-58152","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\/58152","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=58152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58155,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58152\/revisions\/58155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58152"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=58152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}