RealClearWorld Week of February 17, 2025 Archives

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Monday, February 17
Can Europe Stand on Its Own Two Feet Against Russia?
Gavin Mortimer Spectator
‘Rules Based International Order’ Is Dead
Anthony J. Constantini Brussels Signal
It’s Time for Europe To Stand Up
Noah Smith Substack
Trump’s Power Play Exposes EU Impotence
Mick Hume The European Conservative
Manifest Destiny Gets a Reboot Under Trump
William J. Astore TomDispatch
What No Canadian Wants to Hear About Tariffs
Anthony De Luca-Baratta RCW
Why the United States Didn’t Annex Canada
Richard Maass War on the Rocks
The Fatal Flaw of the New Middle East
Maha Yahya Foreign Affairs
PA Would Face Numerous Obstacles To Run Gaza
Seth Frantzman Jerusalem Post
Hostages First, Hamas Collapse Later
Michael Herzog Times of Israel
The Fight for Syria
Shlomo Ben-Ami Project Syndicate
China Will Not Fill the USAID Void
Helen Raleigh The Federalist
Can the Alternative for Germany Save NATO?
Goldman and Parpart Asia Times
Angry Farmers Push Poland Away From Ukraine
Bartosz Brzeziński Politico EU
No, Free Speech Did Not Cause the Holocaust
Fraser Myers Spiked


Tuesday, February 18
Europe and the Death of Pax Americana
Irwin Stelzer Spectator World
Ukraine Must Be Involved in Peace Talks
Mark Temnycky RealClearWorld
Armed Neutrality: NATO’s Least Poor Option
Kavanagh & McCallion War on the Rocks
A Return to Spheres of Influence? Don’t Be Silly
Ruth Deyermond CEPA
Zelensky’s European Army: Killed in the Crib
Sumantra Maitra TAC
Don’t Remove Palestinian Civilians, Remove Hamas
Daniel Shapiro Atlantic Council
Trump Forces Arab Nations into an Impossible Option
Nesrine Malik The Guardian
Trump’s Gaza Plan Should Be Given a Fighting Chance
Ari Zivotofsky Jerusalem Post
Is Al Jazeera Providing Material Support to Hamas?
Dershowitz & Fischberger RCW
America First Does Not Mean Europe Alone
Nadia Schadlow Hudson Institute
China Doesn’t Want To Lead an Axis
Sergey Radchenko Foreign Affairs
How China Can Really Pivot to the Global South
Xiaochen Su Asia Times
How Trump’s Tariffs Can Reverse De-Dollarization
Axel de Vernou RealClearDefense
The D.C. Blob Targets Elbridge Colby
Charlie Kirk The Federalist
Japan Navigates a Course Through Trump-Era Shoals
Ahlawat and Hanada ASPI


Wednesday, February 19
The Superpower Has Left the Building
Richard Fontaine War on the Rocks
Europe’s War Party Takes Aim at Trump
Eldar Mamedov The American Conservative
The Fight for Europe Is On
Jamie Dettmer Politico EU
The Vance Advance & the Miserable EU Elites
Konstantinos Bogdanos Brussels Signal
The New Globalism
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian The Atlantic
America's 'Oil Weapon' Hits Russia Hard
Gordon G. Chang Newsweek
Von der Leyen’s Hopeless Leadership
Jeremy Warner The Telegraph
Can Germany Rise to the Challenge of Protecting Europe?
Katja Hoyer Spectator
Tehran’s Trump Trap
Behnam Ben Taleblu The National Interest
The Fall of the House of Navalny?
Morvan Lallouet The Moscow Times
Austria and the Normalization of Islamist Terror
Tom Slater Spiked
Morena & Sheinbaum Keeps up Mexico to the Left
Waleed Shahid The Nation
Argentina’s Memecoin Crisis Is Damaging Javier Milei
Gavin Haynes UnHerd
U.S.-India Summit: A Productive Trip and a Busy Year Ahead
Richard Rossow CSIS
Myanmar’s Fluid War Edging Toward an Endgame
Anthony Davis Asia Times


Thursday, February 20
Checkmate Europe
Gabriel Elefteriu Brussels Signal
Donald Trump’s Multipolar Diplomacy
David P. Goldman and Uwe Parpart Asia Times
If Trump Makes Aggression Normal, Putin and Xi Win
Hal Brands Bloomberg
Could Ukraine Have Avoided War With Russia?
Daniel Davis 19FortyFive
Europe Must Think Long and Move Fast
Sam Greene CEPA
The Depthless Cruelty of Hamas
Brendan O'Neill Spiked
State Failure in Israel
Seth Frantzman Jerusalem Post
The Ceasefires That Aren’t in Gaza, Lebanon
Daniel Williams Asia Times
United States Should Develop a Gaza Canal
Ashton Earl RealClearWorld
China’s Ties With North Korea Are in a Ditch
Choong-Koo Lee War on the Rocks
Canada and the Trump Administration
Colin Dueck American Enterprise Institute
The European Right is Learning From the Trump Tornado
Mike Gonzalez Heritage
Britain Is a Failed State
Liz Truss Courage.Media
In Germany, the Center Can Hold
Liana Fix and Peter Sparding Foreign Affairs
Elections Won’t Save Haiti
Caleb Mills Geopolitical Monitor


Friday, February 21
Europe Is Becoming an Afterthought for the World
Hal Brands Bloomberg
Trump’s Zelensky Derangement Syndrome
Tim Black Spiked
Cruellest Thing About Trump vs Zelensky? Trump’s Right
Freddy Gray Spectator
Trump Has Betrayed Our Allies and Our Principles
David Faris Newsweek
President Trump Is Dealing With Reality In Ukraine
J.D. Vance X
Why No One Is Winning in Ukraine
Mick Ryan Foreign Affairs
Donald Trump’s Russia Gamble: Could It Work?
Andrew Michta 19FortyFive
Suffer the Little Children
Carl Cannon RealClearPolitics
Rubio’s Revolutionary Downsizing of America’s Role
Brantly Womack The Hill
Trump’s Art of War: Win Without Fighting
Rebekah Koffler Fox News
Adapt or Die: Europe’s Energy on the Edge
Maciej Bukowski CEPA
Germany’s Suddenly Turbulent Election
Linda Mannheim The Nation
Poland’s Path To Remarkable Prosperity
Radoslaw Sikorski ASPI Strategist
Birthright Citizenship Is Not the Slam Dunk Many Say It Is
Paul D. Thacker RCI
The Nazis Did Not ‘Weaponize’ Free Speech. They Crushed It.
Andrew Roberts TFP
Saturday, February 22
A New U.S.-Russia Approach to Ukraine
Ahmed Charai The National Interest
Trump Shouldn’t Let Ukraine Become His Afghanistan
Michael Froman CFR
A Gambit for Peace in Ukraine
Daniel McCarthy Spectator World
McKinley and Trump, Alike in More Ways Than One
Urban C. Lehner Asia Times
China’s Self-Defeating Strategy
Zack Cooper Foreign Affairs
Gaza, Saudi Arabia, and Trump's 'Day After' Plan
Simon & Weinstein Res. Statecraft
We Need Fair Accountability in the Israel-Hamas War
Aviv Nathanael Phipps RCW
Germany’s Ominous Election Campaign
Jeremy Cliffe ECFR
Merz Won’t Give Germany the Change It Needs
Sabine Beppler-Spahl Spiked
Trump's Blunt-Force Tariffs Won’t Work
Mike Williams The Guardian
Two and a Half Cheers for Trump’s New Trade Approach
Alan Tonelson TAC
Outside of Fiction, Socialism Has Never Worked
Kristian Niemietz CapX
Will Debt Bring Down U.S. as a Great Power?
Niall Ferguson Substack
Ecuador’s Next President Will Face Debt, Drought, and Gangs
Will Freeman CFR
Libyan Conflict Facilitated Expansion of Human Smuggling
Tim Eaton Chatham


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