{"id":57659,"date":"2026-03-29T17:30:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=57659"},"modified":"2026-03-29T17:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:34:12","slug":"john-mearsheimer-this-is-much-worse-than-afghanistan-much-worse-than-iraq-trumps-entered-a-war-that-he-cant-win-and-one-could-argue-is-likely-to-have-catastrophic-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=57659","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer: This is much worse than Afghanistan, much worse than Iraq. Trump\u2019s entered a war that he can\u2019t win, and one could argue is likely to have catastrophic consequences."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">John Mearsheimer: This is much worse than Afghanistan, much worse than Iraq. He\u2019s entered a war that he can\u2019t win, and one could argue is likely to have catastrophic consequences.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranians hold almost all the cards. I think it\u2019s very hard for most Americans to understand\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/brZW7xjxX9\">pic.twitter.com\/brZW7xjxX9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud83c\udd70pocalypsis \ud83c\udd70pocalypseos \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf3 \ud83c\udd49 (@apocalypseos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/apocalypseos\/status\/2037642142949240954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57660,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57659\/revisions\/57660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}