JOHN MEARSHEIMER: WHY THIS WAR IS FAR FROM OVER
JOHN MEARSHEIMER: WHY THIS WAR IS FAR FROM OVER
WASHINGTON — In the span of a single dizzying Thursday, the global chessboard didn’t just tilt; it threatened to spill its pieces entirely. Within hours, the White House cycled from a thundering pledge to “hit Iran hard” and seize its oil infrastructure to an abrupt about-face signaling an imminent ceasefire. It was a whiplash moment emblematic of a broader crisis of calculation gripping the American foreign policy establishment—one where grand strategic ambitions are repeatedly colliding with the stubborn, unyielding geometry of reality.
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