RealClearWorld Week of January 5, 2026 Archives

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Monday, January 5
How the Operation To Take Out Maduro Unfolded
Lawler Caputo & Ravid Axios
In Defense of ‘Pax Trumpiana’
Stephen B. Presser Chronicles
Trump Just Showed There Aren’t Any Rules
Nesrine Malik The Guardian
Peace Through Strength in Venezuela
Ahmed Charai The National Interest
Trump's Venezuela Gamble
Philip Wegmann RealClearPolitics
Maduro Is Gone—Venezuela’s Dictatorship Is Not
Quico Toro Persuasion
The End of the Beginning in Venezuela
Juan S. Gonzalez Foreign Affairs
Why Beijing Ignores Washington’s Red Phone
Freeman & McFarland War on the Rocks
Cuba, China, and Russia Face a New Reality
Reuben Johnson 19FortyFive
Iran Protests Enter Ninth Day
David Gritten BBC News
Iran’s Friends Vanishing
Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post
Why the Gaza Governance Plan Can’t Wait
Thomas Warrick The National Interest
Hamas Thwarts Trump Peace Plan
Peter Berkowitz RealClearPolitics
​Is Cuba Next After Maduro’s Capture?
Stephen Bryen Asia Times
Building a Conservative Movement in Mexico
Joseph Addington TAC


Tuesday, January 6
Will 2026 Be a Year of War?
Wolfgang Munchau UnHerd
The Top 10 Global Risks for 2026
Ian Bremmer Time
The Maduro Raid: A Military Victory with No Viable Endgame
Mark Cancian CSIS
The U.S. Captures Maduro: What Comes Next?
Brigham A. McCown RealClearWorld
What Venezuela Reveals About the ‘Don-Roe Doctrine’
Daniel McCarthy Spiked
Putin and EU: How To Take Venezuela in Two Hours
Karl Pfefferkorn Brussels Signal
Coming Soon: The Iran Civil War of 2026?
Michael Rubin 19FortyFive
Tehran’s Moment of Reckoning
Aviva Klompas Newsweek
The Chinese Military’s Rotten Core
Anushka Saxena The National Interest
The $20 Trillion Question
William Murray RealClearEnergy
Europe’s Last Hope in the AI Race
Bernardo Kastrup iai
Berlin Outage: Ignoring Leftist Extremism
Michael Curzon The European Conservative
The Failures of Progressive Decadence After the Cold War
Andrew Michta X
Wikipedia ‘Israel’ Entry Says State Committing ‘Genocide’
Aaron Bandler JNS
U.S. Engagement in the South Caucasus
Aytac Mahmmadova Geopolitical Monitor


Wednesday, January 7
Anti-Left Wave in Latin America
Conrad Black Brussels Signal
Trump Strikes Venezuela: Three Conclusions for Europe
Carl Bildt ECFR
A Humbling Blow to Putin’s Russia in Venezuela
Eva Hartog Politico EU
Realists Got Ukraine Right
Mark Episkopos Responsible Statecraft
Will Trump Make Cuba the Next Haiti or Puerto Rico?
Michael Rubin DC Examiner
What the Venezuela Case Means for the Korean Peninsula
Jihoon Yu RCW
Trump’s Taiwan Stance: Quiet but Strong
Christopher Vassallo The National Interest
Tehran’s Brutal Regime Will Be Overthrown
Maryam Rajavi The Telegraph
Iranian Regime Change Will Be Home-Made
Mitra Safavi-Naeini ASPI Strategist
Across Syria, Warning Signs Remain
Daniel Allott The Hill
Ousting Hamas Is Not Enough for Gaza
Gershon Baskin Jerusalem Post
The Transactional Trap
Michael Brenes Foreign Affairs
UN Is Wasting Trillions on Feel-Good Climate Plans
Bjorn Lomborg New York Post
Australia: A Nation Adrift
Samuel Gregg Civitas Institute
The Africa Blind Spot
Christopher Faulkner and Raphael Parens FPRI


Thursday, January 8
A Win For America First Anti-Interventionism
John Daniel Davidson The Federalist
America Built the Global Order. Now It’s Tearing It Down.
Ian Bremmer GZero Media
Trump Promotes Global Order by Seizing ‘Ghost Fleet’ Oil Tankers
New York Post
Why Trump Wants Greenland and How He Can Take It
Margaret Hartmann NYM
Why and How Trump Wants Greenland
Anthony J. Constantini Brussels Signal
Is Russia Down for the Count?
Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet The Hill
Russians Much Stronger Than They Were 4 Years Ago
Jonathan McCormick AT
How Delcy Rodríguez Courted Donald Trump
Joshua Goodman Los Angeles Times
Iran Sees an Uncomfortable Parallel With Venezuela
Mostafa Salem CNN
Iran’s Crisis of Legitimacy Comes Into View
Ilan Berman The National Interest
Iran’s Cycle of Revenge
Sohrab Ahmari UnHerd
A Dangerous Phase of Jihadism Has Begun
John Mac Ghlionn Courage.Media
Maduro’s Fall Could Save Lives in America
Brian Lonergan Chronicles
A Moment of Truth for EU Digital Sovereignty
Paolo Passaglia Geopolitical Monitor
Germany Leaders Couldn’t Care Less About Berlin Outage
Michael Curzon TEC


Friday, January 9
Russia and Venezuela—Toward a New Yalta?
Angela Stent AEI
Been There, Done That. Lessons For Venezuela.
Nadia Schadlow RealClearDefense
Trump Was Never an Isolationist
James Diddams Providence
Venezuela Exposes Europe’s Procedural Reflex
Kristen Ziccarelli RealClearWorld
Will Europe Ever Wake Up?
Thomas Fazi UnHerd
The Paris Accord Means Ukraine War Will Continue
Stephen Bryen Asia Times
Khamenei Vows State Will ‘Not Back Down’
Yeganeh Torbati The Washington Post
Change in Iran Must Come From Its Own People
Sofey Saidi RealClearWorld
China’s Military Advancing Amid Churn
Andrew Erickson War on the Rocks
Europe’s Breaking Point With Trump Has Arrive
Dan Perry Newsweek
Donald Trump Is Bluffing on Annexing Greenland
Andrew Latham 19FortyFive
Targeting Shadow Fleets
Jose M. Macias III Center for Strategic and International Studies
Post-Bolsonaro, Who Will Lead Brazil’s Right?
Tasha Kheiriddin GZero Media
Interview With Colombia's President
Juan Diego Quesada & María Martín El País
Conservatism and the Korean War
Colin Dueck Law & Liberty
Saturday, January 10
Trump’s Foreign-Policy Third Way
David DesRosiers Spectator
Trump's Back to the Future
Niall Ferguson The Times
Europe Signs Up for More Humiliation by Trump
David Broder The Nation
Signs the Islamic Republic Is About To Fall
Roland Oliphant The Telegraph
Change May Be Coming to Iran
Arash Azizi The Atlantic
China’s Fentanyl Crackdown Led to a Drop in U.S. Overdoses
April Rubin Axios
How To Stop China From Dominating the High Seas
Mike Watson DC Free Beacon
Nostalgia Isn’t Strategy: Stop the Monroe Revisionism
Brandan Buck RS
Trump and Teddy Roosevelt: Twin Presidents
Francis Sempa Modern Age
Machado’s Failed Venezuelan Gambit
Joseph Addington The American Conservative
India's Role in Central and Eastern Europe
Kirk Shoemaker ASPI Strategist
RCP Samizdat Prize Celebrates First Amendment Courage
David DesRosiers RCP
Pope Leo and Trump Head for a Clash
Hannah Roberts Politico EU
Why Appeasement Seemed Sensible
Jeremy Black The Critic
Great Balls of Fire
Waters Ellwanger and Calvin RealClearHistory


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