RealClearWorld Week of June 16, 2025 Archives

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Monday, June 16

Ukraine & Russia, Israel & Iran: The Significant

George Friedman Geopolitical Futures

Leaders Clamor To Be the G7’s Trump Whisperer

Stefan Boscia Politico EU

Tehran Endangers the Whole Middle East

Edward Luttwak UnHerd

Neocons and Hawks Play Dangerous Games

Douglas MacKinnon The Hill

As Iran Vows Our Destruction, Israel Unites

Yair Lapid Jerusalem Post

Don’t Give up on Diplomacy With Iran

Ali Vaez Foreign Affairs

India Breaks With China, Russia on Israel-Iran War

Andrew Korybko Asia Times

China and Russia’s Ties Are Deeper Than DC Thinks

Natalia Chabarovskaya CEPA

Tariff Dodgers Take Big Risks To Cut Small Corners

Gene Marks The Guardian

America Is Finally Getting Its Maritime Strategy Right

James Holmes TNI

Fracturing Transatlantic Allies, One Capital at a Time

Matthew Johnson China Brief

Mapping India-Pakistan Military Power

R. Pillai Rajagopalan & L. Cohen ASPI Strategist

Europe Must Rethink Its Energy Strategy — Now

Rafael Pinto Borges Brussels Signal

The Uniqueness of the EU

Henry T. Edmondson III Law & Liberty

Tuesday, June 17

How To Ensure Iran Never Gets the Bomb After Israel’s Strike

Russell Berman NSJ

Israel Risks Another War With No End

Matthew Chance CNN

Iran Remains Diplomatically Isolated Five Days Into Strikes

Seth Frantzman JPost

Russia Wants War Between Israel and Iran

Owen Matthews Spectator World

The Regime Change Maniacs Are Back

Sohrab Ahmari UnHerd

Trump Has Kept His Word on Iran

Lee Smith Tablet

Why War With Iran Was Not Inevitable

Jamie Cohen Times of Israel

India’s Great-Power Delusions

Ashley J. Tellis Foreign Affairs

Mark Rutte's Mission To Keep NATO United and Strong

Addison Graham RCW

What’s Next for Europe?

Sumantra Maitra The American Conservative

The Case Against a Pacific Defense Pact

Jimin Park RealClearDefense

Europe’s Countries Ready Their Hospitals for War

Giedrė Peseckytė Politico EU

The U.S. Is Already Losing the Next War

Holden Triplett The National Interest

Is the U.S. Vulnerable to a Drone Sneak Attack?

Adam Mill Chronicles

Israel’s Operation Rising Lion and the New Way of War

Benjamin Jensen CSIS

Wednesday, June 18

How Iran Lost

Afshon Ostovar Foreign Affairs

An Iran War Would Shatter Trump’s Legacy

John Allen Gay The National Interest

‘America First’ War With Iran?

Philip Wegmann RealClearPolitics

Iran’s Four Possible Responses to Israel — and Their Risks

Hal Brands Bloomberg

Can Trump Manage an Unbelievably Small War?

W. James Antle III TAC

Iran’s Target Isn’t Just Israel. It’s Us.

Mathias Döpfner Politico

Iran is Unlikely to Become a Democracy

Andrew Thomas Asia Times

Why Isn’t Russia Defending Iran?

Hanna Notte The Atlantic

America’s Middle East Trap is China’s Strategic Windfall

Adham Sahloul WOTR

NATO Should Stay in Europe — And Out of the Pacific

Michael Peck CEPA

How China Won Over America, and Then Lost It

John West ASPI

Why Liberals Ignored the Grooming Gang Scandal

Nick Tyrone Spectator World

The 3 Big Lessons for U.S. Air Power from Israel’s War on Iran

Rebecca Grant NSJ

The New KKK

To Put It Bluntly

Reclaiming Religious Freedom—A Liberal Responsibility

Nuri Kino Newsweek