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