RealClearWorld Week of December 15, 2025 Archives

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Monday, December 15

The ‘Free World’ Is at Peak Disunity

Hal Brands Bloomberg

What the National Security Strategy Gets Right

Rebeccah Heinrichs Foreign Affairs

China’s Economy Is Deteriorating on Several Fronts

Hannah Miao Wall Street Journal

China’s Plan To Quarantine Taiwan While Avoiding War

Peter Olive Asia Times

The Bondi Beach Massacre

Claire Lehmann Substack

Australia’s Cowardly Appeasement

Miranda Devine New York Post

What Would Teddy Roosevelt Think of the “Trump Corollary”?

James Holmes TNI

Venezuela’s Crisis and the Future of the American Right

Claudia Nunes RCW

U.S. Pressure Won’t Spark a New Venezuelan Exodus

Dany Bahar The Hill

Zelensky’s NATO Concession Is an Admission of Reality

Bethany Elliott UnHerd

Despite Issues, Many Still Want to Join the EU

Ishaan Tharoor Washington Post

Europe’s War on Democracy

Lauren Smith The European Conservative

India Doubles Down on Moscow

Konstantinos Bogdanos Brussels Signal

What Europe Can Do Over China-Japan Escalation

Elli-Katharina Pohlkamp ECFR

The Diplomatic Battle to Win World War II

Joel Nelson Law & Liberty

Tuesday, December 16

The European Crisis: Origin and Future

George Friedman Geopolitical Futures

Europe Tells Its People To Prepare for War

Colchester & Benoit Wall Street Journal

U.S. Has Become an Ally Under Suspicion

Tasha Kheiriddin GZero Media

Europeans May Not Love Trump—but Many Agree With Him

Mick Hume TEC

A Shooting That Strikes at the Heart of Australia

TIME

Australia Should Look Back In Anger

Adrian Nguyen Courage.Media

The People of Forever Are Not Afraid

Liel Leibovitz Tablet

Lebanon–Iran Tensions Deepen

Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post

What Is America Still Doing in Syria?

Andrew Latham National Security Journal

Nigeria’s Christians Endure Jihadi Violence

Beige Luciano-Adams The Epoch Times

The Charismatic Islamist Militiaman in Sudan

Andrew McGregor Jamestown

Jimmy Lai’s Family Looks to Trump, World Leaders

Susan Crabtree RealClearPolitics

The Battle Against Assisted Suicide in Britain Moves to the Lords

New York Sun

GDP is the Only Number That Really Matters

Brian-Albrecht Vox

The Weakness of the Strongmen

Stephen Kotkin Foreign Affairs