RealClearWorld Week of August 3, 2026 Archives

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Monday, August 3
Nothing Left in Europe
Ryan James Girdusky Commonplace
Ceuta and Europe’s Solidarity Failure
Carla Hobbs European Council on Foreign Relations
Does the U.S. Need More European Political Influence
James Patterson Civitas
How To End the ‘Hormuz War’
Alan Eyre Aljazeera
Trump Is Finally Going for Tehran’s Throat
Erfan Fard Washington Examiner
Iran’s Leaders Now Doubt a Peace Deal Is Possible
Esfandyar Batmanghelidj TAC
The Strange Death of Islamism
Paul Wood Spectator
Japan, Bretton Woods 2.0, and the End of the Carry Era
James Thorne X
Churchill and Trump: The Lions in Winter
Martin Sieff The Realist Review
Tiny Militias Threaten a Forever War
Akhtar Makoii The Telegraph
Iraq's New Path Forward With U.S.
James Durso Oil Price
Socialism Could Be the Future of the Democratic Party
Charles Lane Persuasion
Communism and Socialism Are the New Capitalism
Roger Simon Substack
China’s Quiet Quest to Dominate Latin America
Natalia Cote-Muñoz Foreign Affairs
Let Sudanese Women Breathe
Manel Msalmi Brussels Signal


Tuesday, August 4
The New Forever Wars
Dafna H. Rand Foreign Affairs
The Gulf May No Longer Be Able To Have It All
Liron Rose & Avnet Kleiner JPost
The Not-So-Special Relationship With Israel
Jacob Siegel Tablet
Trump’s Bombast Has Ceased To Rattle World Leaders
Hendrix & Faiola Wash. Post
Kremlin Bullys More Russians Into Fighting
Matviichuk & Grove Wall Street Journal
Europe’s Lure for Labour
Fraser Myers The American Conservative
Farage Is Under Siege. That’s Just How He Likes It.
Tim Ross Politico EU
Why Farage Will Vanquish Lowe
Samuel Rubinstein UnHerd
America Can’t Let the Japanese Yen Fail
Philip Patrick Spectator
Why Beijing Keeps Sovereignty Disputes Alive
Pu-Chao Hung ASPI Strategist
America Has a South China Sea Problem
Andrew Latham 19FortyFive
What Iranians Really Think About the War
Ilan Berman The National Interest
Today’s Iranian Dissidents and the Mistakes of 1979
Lorenzini and Ziabari Reason
U.S. Ally Albania Is in Trouble
Steven Bucci The Daily Signal
India’s Gen Z Protesters Force Modi To Answer
Suhani Lakhotia GZero Media


Wednesday, August 5
How the Axis of Resistance Recovered
Peter Salisbury et al. Foreign Affairs
Trump Must Break the Islamic Republic of Iran
Erfan Fard Fox News
Ukraine Fails To Halt a Fresh Barrage of Russian Missiles
Khudov & Stern WashPost
Ukraine Has Reversed the War in its Favor
Reuben F. Johnson National Security Journal
Private Firms Driving Russia’s New Tech Push
Stephen Bryen Asia Times
Spain Hasn’t Taken Back Control in Ceuta
Tim Röhn The Telegraph
Spain Sweats Over Its Isolated Territories
Aitor Hernandez-Morales Politico EU
Pedro Sánchez’s Kingdom
Christopher Caldwell American Mind
Merz Clings to a Firewall Abandoned by His Voters
Henry Olsen Brussels Signal
A Year of Peace in the Caucasus—and How to Keep It
Brenda Shaffer RealClearWorld
Central Asia’s Critical Minerals Rush
Arjun Singh The National Interest
Can Cambridge Weather the Arday Storm?
Paul Sagar UnHerd
Rubio Gives Update on Venezuela Election Timing
Leonardo Feldman Newsweek
Haiti and the Future of International Stabilization
Philippe de Bard War on the Rocks
Sudan Is a 10-Nation Proxy War
Abdulmoniem Suleiman Washington Examiner


Thursday, August 6
America’s 10-Year Rule Just Ended
Christopher Carroll The National Interest
China's Window Is Closing. So Is Its Command Structure
Jacob Childress RCW
Mr. President, It’s Time To Make Up Your Mind About Iran
Aaron Maclean TFP
America Must Let Go of the Middle East
Michael Fuchs Foreign Affairs
Iran Is Digging In for a Long War
Hadi Kahalzadeh Responsible Statecraft
Isolation Is Not an Option
Michael Lucchese Civitas Outlook
The New Democratic Left
Frida Ghitis Substack
TPS for Haitians Officially Ends
David Nakamura et al. Washington Post
The Age of Weaponized Migration
Tanya Goudsouzian & Ibrahim Al-Marashi TNI
The Truth About Europe’s Migration Crisis
Ali Bordbar Jahantighi TEC
The E.U.’s New AI Law Keeps the Best Tech Out of Europe
Washington Post
America’s AI Lead Is Shrinking
Hal Brands Bloomberg
Beyond the AI Bottleneck
James Thorne Wellington-Altus
Iran’s Plot To Split Jordan From the West
Henry Bodkin The Telegraph
Kazakhstan’s Pragmatic Approach to the World Stage
Phoebe Woodard RCW


Friday, August 7
Donald Trump Won the Iran War
James Carafano 19FortyFive
Trump's Kindergarten Diplomacy
Moustafa Bayoumi The Guardian
Iran is Uniting the Middle East, Against It
J.T. Young Substack
Premature Gaza & Iran Deals Weakened U.S. Credibility
Lawrence Haas TNI
Disarming Hamas Is Easier Said Than Done
Sharawi and Ecanow RealClearWorld
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan Sign Joint Defense Deal
Times of Israel
Qatar’s Unreserved Support for Hamas Continues
MEMRI
The Man Who Could Topple Benjamin Netanyahu
Arieh Kovler Spectator
Netanyahu Has an Insurance Policy – Israel’s Opposition
Adam Scott Bellos JPost
Russia’s Coming Succession Crisis
Julian G. Waller Foreign Affairs
1,000 German Lawyers Back Call for AfD Ban
Luca Steinmann Brussels Signal
Germany's AfD Is Closer Than Ever to Power
Tim Ganser The UnPopulist
How Europe Conquered Hungary
Thomas Fazi UnHerd
Inside Rubio’s Cuba Pressure Campaign
Marc Caputo Axios
China Will Sell its 5th-Gen Fighters to Pakistan
Usman Haider and Ramsha RCW
Saturday, August 8
Europe’s Borders Are Finally Working
David Luhnow et al. Wall Street Journal
Blame Pedro Sanchez for Ceuta. Not Spain
Mike Gonzalez Washington Examiner
Four Hypotheses on the Migration Crisis in Ceuta
Othman Regragui Geo. Monitor
China’s Xi Never Wastes a Good Crisis
Simon Tisdall The Guardian
'The Odyssey' and the Clash of Civilizations
Mike Watson Washington Free Beacon
In Defense of Trump's Iran Strategy
Brian T. Kennedy American Mind
Is Scott Bessent America’s Most Important Diplomat?
Freddy Gray Spectator
Axis of Aggressors Military Cooperation
Bowman Rolleigh & McMillan RCD
How Ukrainians Are Surviving
Anastasia Lebedenko Persuasion
The Farage and Lowe Drama
Noah Keate Politico EU
Britain’s Decline Is Not Thatcher’s Fault
Conrad Black Brussels Signal
Japan’s Premier Shifts Tone on Nuclear Policy
Chie Tanaka Washington Post
Israel Is Making Plans for a Post-America Middle East
Tom O'Connor Newsweek
How Colombia Re-Entered the U.S. Orbit
Henry Large The National Interest
Colombia on the Brink
Thomas Graham The Guardian
Is Venezuela’s Transition Beginning?
Tony Frangie Mawad GZero Media
Hormuz Will Reshape the Global LNG Market
Leslie Palti-Guzman CSIS
Why Is There Fighting in Yemen
Nadeen Ebrahim & Anna Cooban CNN
Monday, August 10
Are We on the Brink of World War Three?
Tom Switzer Spectator
Why Is Iran Acting Like It Is Holding All the Cards
Damian Paletta Wall Street Journal
Trump: “We Are Low-Keying It” With Iran
Barak Ravid Axios
Why the U.S. Will Have To Accept a Hormuz Toll
Dan Depetris Responsible Statecraft
Rebuilding Western Values
Nick Freitas Get Real
Would Putin Attack NATO?
Andrew Latham 19FortyFive
Netanyahu Rejects U.S.-Led Gaza Peace Plan
Andrew Rotherham The Guardian
The One-State Solution’s Unavoidable Hamas Dilemma
Conor Tobin Times of Israel
Ceuta Crisis Was Hastily Declared Over
Ralph Schoellhammer Brussels Signal
India-China Thaw Is a Supply-Chain Truce
Mansoor Qaisar Asia Times
Why China Worries About North Korea
Zheng Jiyong Foreign Affairs
China’s Weaponization of U.S. Food Security
Ellen R. Wald The National Interest
Will Alberta Become the 51st State?
Mickey Djuric Politico
The Rising Threat of Jihadi Bioterrorism
Steven Stalinsky MEMRI
Somali Pirates Are Back
Rose George UnHerd



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