{"id":58391,"date":"2026-03-24T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=58391"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:57:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:57:54","slug":"john-mearsheimer-on-neck-deep-in-the-big-muddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/24\/john-mearsheimer-on-neck-deep-in-the-big-muddy\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer on Neck Deep in the Big Muddy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/neck-deep-in-the-big-muddy\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a>:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 24 March 2026, I was on \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d talking with Judge Napolitano about where the Iran war is headed in light of President Trump\u2019s decision on the previous day (23 March 2026) not to bomb Iran\u2019s energy installations.<\/p>\n<p>While it was certainly all for the good that Trump did not pull the trigger, as it would have led to a disastrous escalation, the situation remains as grim as ever. The US still has no viable exit strategy and going up the escalation ladder is a prescription for disaster, as Iran is playing the stronger hand.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1jstl3GhAYg?si=RC6I3keR3z4RNwik\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from John&#8217;s Substack:\u00a0 On 24 March 2026, I was on \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d talking with Judge Napolitano about where the Iran war is headed in light of President Trump\u2019s decision on the previous day (23 March 2026) not to bomb Iran\u2019s energy installations. While it was certainly all for the good that Trump did not [&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-58391","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\/58391","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=58391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58394,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58391\/revisions\/58394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58391"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=58391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}