RealClearWorld Week of April 20, 2026 Archives

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Monday, April 20
U.S. Seizes Iranian Cargo Ship
Gemma Fox Nik Popli and Miranda Jeyaretnam Time
Why “Mowing the Grass” Won’t Work in Iran
Mona Yacoubian CSIS
Can the U.S. and Iran Agree to a Lasting Deal?
Patrick Sykes Bloomberg
Iran Mocks EU Calls To Reopen Strait of Hormuz
Gregorio Sorgi Politico EU
How Beijing Armed, Funded, and Enabled Iran
Lisa Daftari New York Post
China’s Industrial Policy Has Big Flaws
Noah Smith Substack
In Empire We Trust
Steve Fraser Tom Dispatch
Israel’s Independence Day Reflection
Benyamin Yakovian Jerusalem Post
Japan, Australia and a New Regional Order
George Friedman Geopolitical Futures
What Is the Supply Side of Britain and Europe’s Decline?
Blake Neff Spectator
Ireland in Crisis: A Warning to Europe
Eanna Mackey CEPA
Russia After Putin
Philip Wasielewski Foreign Policy Research Institute
Post-Orban, EU Poses a Greater Threat to U.S. Sovereignty
Jonathan Turley The Hill
How Venezuela Is Quietly Shifting to Democracy
Burrell and Harkins TNI
The Politicization of Science
J. Peder Zane & James Varney RealClearInvestigations


Tuesday, April 21
Iran Is Not Winning. It Is Unraveling.
James Thorne X
Pakistan Races Against Time To Get Talks Back On
Abid Hussain Aljazeera
How Will the Strait of Hormuz Blockade End?
James Holmes The National Interest
Hormuz Is Already Escalating. U.S. Policy Still Isn’t Catching Up
Sofey Saidi RCW
Putin’s Real Fear Isn’t NATO—It’s Demobilization
Zak Schneider Newsweek
Tone Is Not a Virtue
Heather R. Higgins RealClearPolicy
Sun Sets on Japanese Pacifism
Sarah Newey The Telegraph
China’s Growing Economic Ties With Egypt Matter
Pollard Huyer & Kleidon RCW
End of EPA’s Endangerment Finding Changes the World
William Murray RCEnergy
Nine Lessons From Viktor Orbán’s Defeat
Kenneth Roth The Guardian
French Presidential Election: Too Many People
Hélène de Lauzun TEC
The Problem With Europe’s Big Tech Breakup
Pollet and Schlung Politico EU
Sanchez, Lenin, and Global Opposition to Trump
Stephen Soukup American Greatness
The Case for Asylum in These Less Than United States
Liz Theoharis TomDispatch
Wall or Sieve? Doubts About U.S. Immigration System
RCI


Wednesday, April 22
Trump Isn’t Negotiating—He’s Crushing Iran’s Regime
Victor Davis Hanson TDS
Why Iran Doesn’t Want Peace
Charlie Gammell The Spectator
Trump’s Frustration and Iran’s Delaying Tactics
Byron York Washington Examiner
Iran Metabolizes the Pressure That Broke Venezuela
Rashed M. Aba-namay WOTR
Tom Friedman Is Wrongly “Torn” Between Iran and Israel
Alan Dershowitz RCW
Europe Is Becoming a Vassal to China
Konstantinos Bogdanos Brussels Signal
Vladimir Putin Is Running Out of Cards
Newsweek
Restoring Balance to a Broken Global Economy
Robert E. Lighthizer Foreign Affairs
The President of Ultimate Destruction
Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch
Paris Agreement Was a Fantasy
Thomas Fazi UnHerd
Hong Kong Comes for the Right to Privacy
Matt Cookson RealClearWorld
250 Years of an American Foreign Policy of Ideas
Michael Mandelbaum RCP
Whistleblower: 2020 CCP Ops vs. Trump Were Suppressed
Catherine Herridge X
The True Cost of the Iran War
The Gaurdian
Voices From Iran
N. Gonnella-Platts & E. Kennedy Trudeau George W. Bush Presidential Center


Thursday, April 23
The Iran War and the Coming Global Struggle
Jakub Grygiel Civitas Outlook
Is Trump Heading to a Pyrrhic Victory in Iran?
Andrew Latham The Conversation
Iran’s Economy Is in Freefall
Anniek Bao & Holly Ellyatt CNBC
Trump’s Iran Cease-Fire Is an Increasingly Risky Bet
Dubowitz and Cohen NYP
Why China’s Support for Iran Has Limits
Bloomberg
China and Russia Can Exploit the Iran War
Jon B. Alterman and Ali Vaez Foreign Affairs
U.S. Allies Are Becoming All-Star Weapons Sellers
Hal Brands Bloomberg
The KMT Goes to China
Allen Zhang RealClearWorld
Europe Has Squandered Its Energy Security
Robert Bryce Spectator
Mysterious Deaths of U.S. and Chinese Scientists
Didi Kirsten Tatlow Newsweek
There Will Be No EU Nuclear Deterrent
Anthony J. Constantini Brussels Signal
Is London an English City?
Wessie du Toit UnHerd
The Israel-Lebanon Truce Is a Turning Point
Anne Dreazen Jerusalem Post
In Cuba: To Be, or Not to Be
Leonardo Padura Time
Despite Trump’s Threats, a U.S.-Cuba Deal Is Taking Shape
Lee Schlenker RS


Friday, April 24
A Grand Strategy of Consolidation
A. Wess Mitchell Foreign Affairs
Iran Has Survived and Discovered an Economic Nuke
Niall Ferguson X
Don’t Confuse Iranian Regime Survival With Strength
Mark Dubowitz FDD
A New Iraq War Is Coming
Matt Broomfield UnHerd
Rightwing Populism Is Littered With Broken Promises
Andy Beckett The Guardian
Can Liz Truss and CPAC Make England Great Again?
Matt McDonald Spectator
Don’t Declare Russia the Winner Just Yet
Caleb Larson 19FortyFive
Europe’s “Forever War” Needs a Holistic Solution
K. Bogdanos Brussels Signal
DHS Reform in a Transatlantic Mirror
Nicholas Cobb RealClearWorld
Financial Ruin for Canada if It Moves Closer to Europe
Joel Kotkin National Post
Asia’s Spiraling Supply Shock Is Coming for America
David Goldman CNN
CIA Deaths in Mexico: Is Trump Playing With Fire?
Juan Rojas Responsible Statecraft
Israel Must Stop Pretending Bond With U.S. Is ‘Unbreakable’
Yaakov Katz JPost
How Hezbollah Is Planning to Sabotage Peace
Rany Ballout The National Interest
Uncomfortable Truth About Disarming Hamas
Dan Rothem Times of Israel
Saturday, April 25
U.S. Negotiators To Go to Islamabad, but Iran Says No Direct Talks
Reuters
Time Is on Trump’s Side Versus Iran, but Not Forever
Dan McLaughlin New York Post
Iran Is Hardening Into a New Junta
Erfan Fard The Hill
The Story Tehran Wants You To Read
Jason D. Greenblatt Aljazeera
The Warnings of Great-Power Wars Past
Elizabeth D. Samet Foreign Affairs
EU’s Ukraine Loan Masks Growing Divisions in Brussels
Wolfgang Munchau UnHerd
Europe Can No Longer Blame Orban
Sebastian Starcevic Politico EU
Falklands Is a Pressure Point for the UK
Joe Inwood BBC News
Macron Calls on Brussels To Extend Censorship
Virginie Joron Brussels Signal
Taiwan Can’t Count on Japan Rearmament
David Axe ASPI Strategist
As U.S. Alliances Crumble, a New World Emerges
The Guardian
The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From China
Mike Watson Washington Free Beacon
How the Iran War Created a Crisis in Afghanistan
Arjun Singh The National Interest
Why the CIA Deaths Are a Problem for Mexico
Daniel DePetris Washington Examiner
A Forgotten Sudanese War Enters Its Fourth Year
Alberto M. Fernandez RCW



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