RealClearWorld December 23, 2025 Archives

RealClearWorld AM Update

Trump National Security Logic: Rare Earths and Fossil Fuels

James K. Galbraith RS

The Logic for Latin American Intervention

George Friedman Geopolitical Futures

The U.S. Is Giving Its Enemies What They Want

Hal Brands Bloomberg

The West Doesn’t Understand Russia

Andrew A. Michta RealClearDefense

Why Ukraine Fears Peace Built on Partition

Darius von Guttner ASPI Strategist

The EU Could Be Gone in Four Years

Ralph Schoellhammer Brussels Signal

Europe Reels From Trump’s New World Order

Eli Stokols Politico EU

Ursula von der Leyen’s Sinking Ship

Rafael Pinto Borges The European Conservative

Russia’s War Economy; Not Collapsing, Nor Stable

Yerzhan Tokbolat Asia Times

China’s Hidden Weapon in the Trade War

Milton Ezrati The National Interest

2025 Was the Year Everything Changed for the U.S. and China

Joshua Keating Vox

Gaza’s New Normal

Daniel Byman Foreign Affairs

How To Stop Hamas From Derailing the Peace Deal

Michael Singh Providence

Syria’s Fragile Stability

Imran Khalid The Hill

Trump Unveils “Trump-Class” Battleships

Stephen Silver 19FortyFive