{"id":2670,"date":"2025-12-20T19:42:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2025-12-20T19:42:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:42:40","slug":"prof-john-mearsheimer%c2%b9-unintended-consequences-of-a-meaningless-war-flailing-around-over-venezuela-18-dec-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2670","title":{"rendered":"Prof. John Mearsheimer\u00b9 : Unintended Consequences of a Meaningless War &amp; Flailing Around Over Venezuela, 18 Dec 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Core takeaway&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All subjects that are very depressing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. On 18 December 2025, I was on \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d talking with Judge Napolitano about the mess the Trump administration has created in Venezuela, the European efforts to steal Russian assets, and the so-called ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon, which the Israelis routinely violate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All subjects that are very depressing<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also took the opportunity at the end of the show to commend the Judge for performing a huge public service with \u201cJudging Freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/c5cikB6G5y0?si=PVkQJMIsZ8wdqE1U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/c5cikB6G5y0?si=PVkQJMIsZ8wdqE1U<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Core takeaway&nbsp; All subjects that are very depressing 1. On 18 December 2025, I was on \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d talking with Judge Napolitano about the mess the Trump administration has created in Venezuela, the European efforts to steal Russian assets, and the so-called ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon, which the Israelis routinely violate.&nbsp; All subjects that are very depressing.&nbsp; I also took the opportunity at the end of the show to commend the Judge for performing a huge public service with \u201cJudging Freedom.\u201d https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/c5cikB6G5y0?si=PVkQJMIsZ8wdqE1U<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2672,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions\/2672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}