RealClearWorld Week of December 1, 2025 Archives

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Monday, December 1
The War in Ukraine: Lots of Questions and a Few Answers
VDH American Greatness
Europe’s Psychology of Weakness
Steven Everts Politico EU
Putin Is Losing His Grip on Eastern Europe
H. van Leeuwen & M. Lawford The Telegraph
Big Europe Has Lost the War Over Ukraine
Mick Hume The European Conservative
Trump’s Weakness in Ukraine Threatens Taiwan
Simon Tisdall The Guardian
The Rot Eating at China’s War Machine
Gabriel Honrada Asia Times
Venezuela and the World Will Be Far Better off With the Maduro Gone
NY Post
Left-Right Backlash Against War With Venezuela
Jack Hunter Responsible Statecraft
What Do Security Guarantees for Ukraine Mean?
Andreas Umland National Interest
War Without End: Russia’s Shadow Warfare
Greene Soldatov and Borogan CEPA
Tehran’s Accelerating Water Crisis
David Michel Will Todman and Jennifer Jun CSIS
Are Palestinians Ready to Shed Hamas?
Mohamed Elgohari Foreign Affairs
Lebanon Refuses To Confront Hezbollah
Eric R. Mandel Jerusalem Post
Pope Leo Finds His Voice on First Foreign Trip
Aleem Maqbool BBC News
Why Bardella May Be the Next President of France
Henry Olsen Brussels Signal


Tuesday, December 2
The West’s Last Chance
Alexander Stubb Foreign Affairs
Why the Great Reset Failed
Mary Harrington UnHerd
Is the Ukraine War Over?
Jack Buckby National Security Journal
China — The Real Winner From Russian Victory in Ukraine
Polyakova & Walker CEPA
Is Russia India’s Best Friend?
Raymond Vickery The National Interest
Ukrainian Corruption Investigation Reveals Derkach’s Role
Taras Kuzio EDM
The Nature of the Next American Cycle
George Friedman Geopolitical Futures
The Venezuela Crisis
The Editors National Review
Boat Strikes Could Make the Cartel Problem Worse
Marie-Rose Sheinerman Atlantic
Ten Years Later, Terror Goes Unnamed
Lloyd Billingsley Chronicles
World Bet and Lost on Taliban Moderation
Mazhar Siddique Khan Asia Times
The Promise—and Limits—of a Free Press
Susan Chira Foreign Affairs
Germany Is Hammered
Kevin Myers Brussels Signal
Conflict in Cambodia and Thailand Resumes
Kurlantzick & Richter CFR
The Kids Are Not Alright
Tasha Kheiriddin GZero Media


Wednesday, December 3
Trump Expands His Doctrine in the Western Hemisphere
Philip Wegmann RCP
Doubt Is Plaguing Trump’s Venezuela Game
Ted Snider Responsible Statecraft
Progress Elusive in Ukraine Peace Talks
Mary Ilyushina & Ellen Francis Washington Post
Hawkishness on Russia Makes Deterring China Harder
Mason Letteau Stallings TAC
Putin’s War Economy Has a Weakness
Tom Sharpe The Telegraph
Where Are Britain’s Capable Leaders Now?
Conrad Black Brussels Signal
The India Trump Made
James Crabtree and Rudra Chaudhuri Foreign Affairs
CRINK at a Glance
Brian Hart et al. Center for Strategic and International Studies
After the Gaza War, Israel Faces a New Region
Eran Ortal The National Interest
Netanyahu Just Admitted He’s Unfit to Lead Israel
Yair Rosenberg The Atlantic
The End of the Climate Cult
Matt Ridley Spectator World
There’s No Green Backlash, EU Climate Chief Insists
Karl Mathiesen Politico EU
Time to Save Nigeria’s Suffering Christians
Eze Ebube & Kerri Toloczko RealClearWorld
How Hostile Regimes Bought Influence in U.S. Schools
Mike Gonzalez DC Examiner
Europe’s New Lines of Defense Are Not Maginot 2.0
Sam Rosenberg WOTR


Thursday, December 4
A New Tripolar World Order Without Europe
Gabriel Elefteriu Brussels Signal
Trump’s Europe Policy Isn’t “Transactional”
Dalibor Rohac The National Interest
The Ukraine Peace Push Is Failing. Here’s Why.
Ian Bremmer GZero Media
Bringing a Successful End to the War in Ukraine
William Fletcher RealClearWorld
Putin Will Never Stop Until He Is Forced To
Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet The Hill
We Are No Closer to Peace in Ukraine
Lisa Haseldine Spectator
The Limits of U.S. Export Controls on China
Daniel Bob RealClearWorld
China Hopes AI Can Fix Its Consumer Demand Problem
Nigel Green Asia Times
Trump’s Middle East Order
Ray Takeyh Foreign Affairs
Iran Pushing the Middle East to the Brink of War
Joe Varner National Security Journal
Tough Talk About Israel
Max J. Prowant Law & Liberty
Lebanon 2.0—Shepherding the Path to Peace
Lynn Zovighian Newsweek
The Seditious Six
William A. Woodruff RealClearDefense
The Pentagon vs Mark Kelly
Luke Hallam Persuasion
Targeting Christians at Christmas
Victor Davis Hanson The Daily Signal


Friday, December 5
National Security Strategy of the USA
The White House
The Risks of Historical Amnesia
Mathew Burrows & Robert Manning The National Interest
Is Europe kaput?
Ralph Schoellhammer Brussels Signal
Europe Must Move Faster on Security Cooperation
The Guardian
Ukraine Is Fighting NATO’s War
Reuben Johnson National Security Journal
The U.S.-Saudi Reconfiguration Is Real
H A Hellyer War on the Rocks
The Real Problem with Cozying Up to the Saudis
Friedman and Kelanic RCW
Why Won’t the Right Unite in Western Europe?
Zac Weisz GZero Media
Against Muzzling the Right
A.M. Fantini The European Conservative
Poland’s New Orbit: A Space Partner for the U.S.
Maciej Stańczuk RealClearWorld
Maduro Has Called Trump’s Bluff
John Masko UnHerd
Following the Money Trail of Missing Child Border Crossers
James Varney RCI
Macron Pivots From Trump to Xi
Timothy Nerozzi Washington Examiner
Why ‘America First’ Trade Could Benefit Us All
Ryan Rappa RealClearPolitics
What Syrians Want
Salma Al-Shami and Michael Robbins Foreign Affairs
The Dawn of AI Deepfakes & 5th Generation Warfare
Aarav Sharma RealClearWorld
Saturday, December 6
The Common-Sense Realism of the National Security Strategy
Greg Lawson TNI
The Moral Urgency of Compromise in Ukraine
George Beebe Compact
Only Europe Can Save Ukraine
Timothy Garton Ash The Guardian
Ukraine Isn't Worth One American Life
Francis Sempa RealClearDefense
American Conservatives Clash With European Liberals
Joshua Keating Vox
European Union Fines Elon Musk’s X
Jacob Adams The Daily Signal
On Venezuela, Trump Needs To Ask the Big Question
Daniel R. DePetris Newsweek
The Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
James Holmes The National Interest
Trump’s Turn to End Genocide and War in Sudan
Liam Karr & Michael DeAngelo RCW
The Genocide No One Talks About Any More
Alex Kliment GZero Media
Free and Open Indo-Pacific 4.0 under PM Takaichi?
William Winberg Asia Times
Kudos to Eurovision for Voting Against Israel Ban
New York Post
Did Britain’s Chancellor Lie About Her Monster Budget?
Iain Macwhirter TAC
Has Reform Peaked?
Tim Shipman Spectator World
German Rearmament Still Needs Critical U.S. Hardware
Eliot WIlson The Hill
America Needs Free Speech. RealClear Needs You.
David DesRosiers RCP


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