{"id":2854,"date":"2026-01-03T19:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2026-01-03T19:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:06:33","slug":"trumps-foreign-policy-in-2025-john-j-mearsheimer%c2%b9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2854","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Foreign Policy in 2025 John J. Mearsheimer\u00b9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/mearsheimer\/p\/trumps-foreign-policy-in-2025?utm_source=share&#038;utm_medium=android&#038;shareImageVariant=overlay&#038;r=1sxk3k\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>1. On 16 December 2025, I spoke with Afshin Rattansi on his podcast \u201cGoing Underground.\u201d We discussed President Trump\u2019s foreign policy performance over the course of 2025. I made clear that I believe there are few successes and many failures. His first year in office has hardly been an auspicious start and there is little reason to think things will change in 2026, which looks like it is going to be another bleak year on the foreign-policy front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VVGzgWzBpUM?si=CVRFXj6ND5s937al\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/VVGzgWzBpUM?si=CVRFXj6ND5s937al<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1000031444-1024x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1000031444-1024x478.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1000031444-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1000031444-768x358.jpg 768w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1000031444-1536x716.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1000031444-2048x955.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. On 16 December 2025, I spoke with Afshin Rattansi on his podcast \u201cGoing Underground.\u201d We discussed President Trump\u2019s foreign policy performance over the course of 2025. I made clear that I believe there are few successes and many failures. His first year in office has hardly been an auspicious start and there is little reason to think things will change in 2026, which looks like it is going to be another bleak year on the foreign-policy front. https:\/\/youtu.be\/VVGzgWzBpUM?si=CVRFXj6ND5s937al<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-offensiverealism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854","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=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}