RealClearWorld Week of February 23, 2026 Archives

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Monday, February 23
U.S. Diplomacy & the Lost European Mind
Ralph Schoellhammer Brussels Signal
The Tragedy of Great-Power Foreign Policy
Stacie E. Goddard Foreign Affairs
Donald Trump’s Iran Trap
Michael Doran Hudson Institute
The Coming Air and Missile War With Iran
Douglas Macgregor The Realist Review
Loyalty to IRGC May Not Be Worth the Cost
Jerusalem Post
Trump Is Accelerating American Decline
Alfred McCoy TomDispatch
Will Trump Choose Xi’s Favor or Taiwan’s Defense?
Daniel DePetris DC Examiner
The Erosion of Swiss Banking Reliability
Frank Salvato RealClearWorld
Does Anyone Know Why We’re Still Doing Tariffs?
Noah Smith Substack
Keep Calm, the Tariffs Are On
Oren Cass and Daniel Kishi Common Place
So Much for the Two-State Solution
Gary Rosenblatt Times of Israel
Huckabee’s Israel Comments Condemned by Arab Nations
Maia Davies BBC News
The Saudi Prince’s Wound
Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin Tablet
There's More at Stake Than Just Medals
Mike Watson Washington Free Beacon
Violence in Mexico After Cartel Leader Killed
Cristian Benavides et al. CBS News


Tuesday, February 24
Why No One is Winning the Russia-Ukraine War
Ellie Cook Newsweek
Does Europe Want to be Western?
Spencer Klavan The New Jerusalem
Breaking Europe’s Trans-Atlantic Habit
Graefrath & Weber War on the Rocks
Ukraine's Dilemma
Peter Rutland Responsible Statecraft
Putin’s War Is Getting More Expensive. That’s Good News
Ilan Berman Newsweek
Decisive Hours With Iran: Deal or Strike?
Amir Bar Shalom Times of Israel
The Sunni-Arab Drive To Reassert Itself in the Region
Bruce Abramson RCW
The EU Sinks Into Irrelevance
Konstantinos Bogdanos Brussels Signal
China’s Fragile Future
Andrew J. Nathan Foreign Affairs
Peru's Aliaga Will Bring Stability and an Alliance with the U.S.
Steve Cortes RCW
Defending Trump’s Latin America Policy
Colin Dueck American Mind
Stars Are Aligning for Hezbollah’s Disarmament
Rany Ballout The National Interest
Military Raid Is Risky Gamble for Mexico’s Sheinbaum
Gottesdiener & Green Reuters
The Truth About Mexico’s Cartel Wars
Joshua Treviño Spectator
Ending the Persecution of Christians in Nigeria
House Foreign Affairs Committee


Wednesday, February 25
It’s Beginning To Feel a Little Like Sarajevo in June 1914
Harlan Ullman The Hill
American Opportunities in a Disrupted Middle East
Bruce Abramson RealClearWorld
Trump Just Showed His Hand on Iran
Newsweek
Ex-Hostage: Iranian Regime ‘Will Go Down Fighting’
Doree Lewak New York Post
Trump’s Longest Speech, His Shortest Margin for Error
Philip Wegmann RCP
The U.S. Supreme Court and Geopolitics
George Friedman Geopolitical Futures
X Challenges €120M Fine Under EU Censorship Law
ADF International
America Needs an Alliance Audit
Christopher S. Chivvis Foreign Affairs
Four Years In: Ukraine War Grinds On
Riley Callanan GZero Media
Arctic Hot Takes Need a Cold Reality Check
Ryan Burke War on the Rocks
It’s Time To Take Trump’s Gaza Plan Seriously
Ed Husain The Telegraph
Central Asia Matters on Trump’s “Board of Peace”
James Durso Oil Price
Will the UK Become a Hermit Country
Conrad Black Brussels Signal
Is the Nationalist Revolution in Britain Real?
Iain Macwhirter American Conservative
Drug Lord’s Death Tests Mexico’s Economy
Craig Mellow Barrons.com


Thursday, February 26
How U.S. Strikes on Iran Can Aid the Protest Movement
Janatan Sayeh TNI
For Iran, Better To Take a Beating Than Capitulate
Goudsouzian & Al-Marashi WOTR
Four Years Since the Start of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
EDM
Securing Ukraine’s Future
Heidi E. Crebo-Rediker et al. Council on Foreign Relations
Ukraine Is Losing the War
Michael C. Desch Foreign Affairs
The Foreign Policy Details Trump Omitted
Zac Weisz GZero Media
Trump Avoids Drama To Focus on Foreign Imminent Threats
Mike Watson WFB
Killing ‘El Mencho’ was Just Step One
Elaine Dezenski and Jonathan Earles NY Post
Cuba’s Shootout With Florida Speedboat
Miranda Jeyaretnam Time
The Collapse of Communist Cuba
Sabrina Penty The Daily Mail
The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis
Alap Shah Citrini Research
Stop the AI Panic
Joe Buccino RealClearWorld
UN’s Cash Crisis
Saima Afzal Asia Times
Conserving the West
Mark C. Henrie Modern Age
Patriotism and Its Enemies
Rich Lowry New York Post


Friday, February 27
Pakistan Declares ‘Open War’ With Afghanistan
Yusufzai & Jett NBC News
Weakened Iran Has Called Trump’s Bluff
Adrian Blomfield The Telegraph
What It Will Take To Change the Regime in Iran
Behnam Ben Taleblu Foreign Affairs
Iran and the Pressure for Internal Change
Alireza Jafarzadeh RealClearWorld
How China Is Hardening Iran
James D. Durso The National Interest
Trump Will Make China Trip With One Arm Tied Behind His Back
William Pesek AT
Xi Has Made China’s Currency Ambition Explicit
Matthew Rochat War on the Rocks
Could Hungary Change Course of Ukraine War?
Ian Proud Responsible Statecraft
A Post-Orbán Hungary
Ferenc Németh CEPA
Britain’s Double Standard on Extremism
Paul Birch The European Conservative
India Leads the Way to Human-Centric AI Future
Narendra Modi Newsweek
The Cuban Revolution Faces Its Biggest Threat Yet
Will Grant BBC News
Cuba and the U.S. Are Bogged Down in History
Benjamin Young TAC
The Decline of Liberty
Gabriel Elefteriu Brussels Signal
Finding Hope and Love in the Ruins of Sudan’s War
Yousra Elbagir Time
Saturday, February 28
Americans Will Never be Threatened by a Nuclear-Armed Iran
Donald J. Trump X
Now That We Are In Iran What Will We Leave Behind?
Carl Schramm RCW
A Dangerous Moment, but U.S. & Israel See Opportunity
Jeremy Bowen BBC News
Trump Shows He’s a War President — Not a Dove
Daniel R. DePetris MS Now
The Iranians Have Brought This on Themselves
Con Coughlin The Telegraph
Can U.S. Fight a Regime Change War from the Air?
James Holmes TNI
No, the President Did Not Lose Tariff Power
Benjamin M. Osborne Chronicles
Rebuilding Western Rare Earth Processing Power
Carl Popal RealClearWorld
The Board of Peace Has a Hamas Problem
Gordon Gray National Security Journal
Why Europe Is Rethinking Its Russia Strategy
Abdulla Ibrahim The National Interest
A Welcome AfD Court Ruling for German Democracy
Ani Chkhikvadze DC Examiner
Can Trump Deliver Real UN Reform?
Stefano Gennarini RealClearWorld
America’s New Unipolar Moment
Stuart Gottlieb Newsweek
The Case for Enhanced U.S. Membership in the UN
Helena Miller RealClearWorld
Mexico’s Chaos Is Disrupting North American Free Trade
Ryan C. Berg The Hill
Nigerian Christians Are Being Slaughtered
Eze Ebube USA Today


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