{"id":2677,"date":"2025-12-20T19:45:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2025-12-20T19:45:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:45:52","slug":"the-madness-goes-on-and-on-fake-diplomacy-permanent-conflict-john-mearsheimer%c2%b9-alexander-mercouris-glenn-diesen-18-dec-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2677","title":{"rendered":"The Madness Goes On and On : Fake Diplomacy &amp; Permanent Conflict &#8211; John Mearsheimer\u00b9, Alexander Mercouris &amp; Glenn Diesen, 18 Dec 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1. On 18 December 2025, I was on the Duran with Glenn Diesen and Alexander Mercouris.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We talked at great lengths about the surreal diplomacy the West is conducting with Russia and Ukraine and what this portends for the future<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The answer of course is nothing but trouble \u2014 deadly serious trouble \u2014 for a long time to come.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3onO7SRkWd0?si=P-GtmZBoPNTeRGxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/3onO7SRkWd0?si=P-GtmZBoPNTeRGxi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. On 18 December 2025, I was on the Duran with Glenn Diesen and Alexander Mercouris.&nbsp; We talked at great lengths about the surreal diplomacy the West is conducting with Russia and Ukraine and what this portends for the future. The answer of course is nothing but trouble \u2014 deadly serious trouble \u2014 for a long time to come. https:\/\/youtu.be\/3onO7SRkWd0?si=P-GtmZBoPNTeRGxi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2677","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\/2677","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=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2679,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions\/2679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}