{"id":311544,"date":"2026-01-12T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=311544"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:11:26","slug":"venezuela-after-trumps-strike-john-bolton-vs-john-mearsheimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/01\/venezuela-after-trumps-strike-john-bolton-vs-john-mearsheimer\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela after Trump\u2019s Strike: John Bolton vs John Mearsheimer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>6 Jan 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">On his new program, <em>Switzerland<\/em>, Tom Switzer challenges John Bolton and John Mearsheimer on the Trump administration\u2019s move to remove Nicol\u00e1s Maduro from power. Bolton, Trump\u2019s former national security adviser, argues the operation is justified if it delivers real regime change. Mearsheimer, the University of Chicago political scientist, warns the intervention makes no strategic sense and risks dangerous precedents. Is President Trump willing to settle for Maduro 2.0? Does Venezuela mark a break from the post-war liberal order? Will Beijing and Moscow draw lessons for Taiwan and Ukraine? Can Washington control Venezuela\u2019s oil without nation-building? And how does this intervention square with Trump\u2019s promise to avoid foreign entanglements? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Venezuela after Trump\u2019s strike: John Bolton vs John Mearsheimer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QWUPMZXZwpE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 Jan 2026 &#8211; Tom Switzer challenges John Bolton and John Mearsheimer on the Trump administration\u2019s move to remove Nicol\u00e1s Maduro from power. Will Beijing and Moscow draw lessons for Taiwan and Ukraine? Can Washington control Venezuela\u2019s oil without nation-building? And how does this intervention square with Trump\u2019s promise to avoid foreign entanglements?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[867,1441,417,3614,1126,1050,950,541,559,3530,86,2571,1190,329,2137,880,249,124,1888,70,557],"class_list":["post-311544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-anglo-america","tag-big-oil","tag-bullying","tag-disaster-capitalism","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-invasion","tag-latin-america-caribbean","tag-maduro","tag-military-capitalism","tag-occupation","tag-official-lies-and-narratives","tag-regime-change","tag-resources","tag-south-america","tag-state-terrorism","tag-trump","tag-united-nations","tag-unsc","tag-usa","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311545,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311544\/revisions\/311545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}