{"id":329354,"date":"2026-07-27T07:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329354"},"modified":"2026-07-28T06:32:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:32:55","slug":"iran-is-dominating-the-battlefield-u-s-and-allies-take-heavy-losses-john-mearsheimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329354","title":{"rendered":"Iran Is Dominating the Battlefield \u2014 U.S. and Allies Take Heavy Losses | John Mearsheimer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Mr. Romeo \u2013 July 26, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bwx94QGArPk?si=W7cYst1UEfePNpAd\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bwx94QGArPk\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America has clearly failed to defeat Iran. Prior to Feb 28, the U.S. had a string of bases across the Middle East. It also had a network of alliances throughout the region. Both are now gone. John Mearsheimer explains  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,51,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Iran","category-iran-u-s-israel-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329354"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329364,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329354\/revisions\/329364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}