RealClearWorld April 18, 2026 Archives

RealClearWorld AM Update

Iran Says It Has Closed the Strait of Hormuz Again

Susannah George WashPost

Don’t Let Iran Weasel Out of Its Complete Surrender

New York Post

Trumpian Geoeconomics and Pivot to Asia

Francis Sempa American Spectator

China’s Aid to Iran Exposes Axis of Autocracies

Washington Examiner

A Tense Tone for Trump-Xi Meeting

Tom Harper Asia Times

China Has Already Crossed Trump’s Red Line

Matt Cookson RealClearWorld

Inside the Historic U.S.-Cuba Negotiations in Havana

Marc Caputo Axios

Russia’s Nationalists Are Falling out of Love With Putin

Mark Galeotti Spectator

Four Principles for an EU-Hungary Reset

Jeremy Cliffe ECFR

A Post-Orbán Europe, and a Chance for U.S. Restraint

Victoria-Katharina Flick RCW

Netanyahu: ‘Road to Peace’ With Lebanon Begins

Lazar Berman et al. Times of Israel

No More U.S. Military Aid to Israel

Bernie Sanders The Guardian

250 Years of a U.S. Foreign Policy of Ideas

Michael Mandelbaum The National Interest

Four key points about China's 15th Five-Year Plan

Grünberg & Davey MERICS

Azerbaijan Manages Crisis Amid Iran Conflict

Yunis Gurbanov Eurasia Daily Monitor

RealClearWorld Podcasts

Who’s Actually Running Iran?

Hoover Institution