RealClearWorld Week of May 4, 2026 Archives

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Monday, May 4
Oil Prices Climb as Iran Threatens U.S. Forces
Tsvetana Paraskova Oil Price
Trump Has Finally Realized He Must Seize the Strait
David Blair The Telegraph
Xi’s Forever Purge
Neil Thomas and Shengyu Wang Foreign Affairs
Donroe Doctrine Is Becoming Everything China Feared
Logan McMillen Asia Times
China’s Strategy Is the Monroe Doctrine in Mandarin
Andrew Latham 19FortyFive
A Huge Reminder of America’s Energy Dominance
Victoria Coates Fox News
The Significance of the Trump-Putin Talks
George Friedman Geopolitical Futures
The Muslim Brotherhood Threat to the U.S.
Steven Stalinsky RealClearWorld
The End of the Axis of Abraham
H.A. Hellyer Foreign Affairs
Why Won’t Kim Pick Up the Phone?
Jonathan Corrado War on the Rocks
NATO’s Power Shift: U.S. Steps Back, Germany Steps Up?
Javier Villamor TEC
Germany’s Far-Left War on Infrastructure
Dinger Pfahler and Woldin Politico EU
Britain Is Facing an Islamist Insurgency
Simon Diggins Spectator
Tech Has Broken Our Entire World Model
Gabriel Elefteriu Brussels Signal
The Task of Diplomacy
Sumantra Maitra The American Conservative


Tuesday, May 5
The Global Ripples from the Iran War
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness
Iran Feeling Confident in Attacking
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post
Iranian-Americans Want the IRGC Gone
Joel Kotkin New York Post
Lessons From U.S. Failures in the Iran War
Stephen Bryen Asia Times
Arab Unity Is the Only Way To Establish Security for All
Hussein Chokr Aljazeera
Anti-Israel Hypocrisy Over Claim Territories
Bradley Martin Newsweek
King Charles III's Mission Accomplished in U.S.
Freddie Clayton NBC News
Win in a Democracy: Give the People What They Want
Henry Olsen Brussels Signal
Germany’s Military Power Is on the Rise
Timothy Garton Ash The Guardian
The Return of Japanese Hard Power
Matthew Finkel Foreign Affairs
Western Europe Needs to Strengthen its Defense Strategy
Helena Miller RCW
No, Russia Is Not on the Verge of a Coup
Mark Galeotti Spectator
Zelensky Has No Cards Against Russia or the West
Leonid Ragozin Aljazeera
Trump Goes All In on Regime Change in Cuba
Chris Bray The Federalist
The Caspian Sea’s Role in the Iran War
Arjun Singh The National Interest


Wednesday, May 6
How Epic Fury Can Deliver a Peace Dividend
James Thorne Wellington-Altus
U.S. and Iran Closing In on One-Page Memo To End War
Barak Ravid Axios
Rubio Is Right About Iran’s Economic Nuke — That’s the Problem
Eric Alter AT
Ukraine and the Washington War Machine
Steve Cortes RealClearWorld
Europe Can No Longer Trust America
Dalibor Rohac Persuasion
Russia Is in No Position To Threaten Western Europe
Conrad Black Brussels Signal
The Incredible Shrinking German Chancellor
Marc Felix Serrao Politico EU
Rules Are for Suckers in Two-Tier Britain
Mary Harrington UnHerd
The EU’s Quarter-Life Crisis
Pawel Zerka European Council on Foreign Relations
The Plan to Crush Europe’s Conservative Nationalists
Wellisz & Gilder Chronicles
Japan at Arms Will Help the U.S.
Derek Grossman Newsweek
Can Ideology Prevent War in East Asia?
Michael J. Gigante et al. Foreign Affairs
What Will the West Do if Mali Falls to Jihadists?
Alex Thurston Responsible Statecraft
Islamic State Massacres Christians in DRC
Ben Farmer Washington Post
Rubio’s Chance To Broker Peace With the Vatican
Ashley McGuire New York Post


Thursday, May 7
The World's Choice: Stand With America or Yield to Iran?
Elizabeth Stauffer DC Ex.
What Iran Is Actually After
Andrew Latham National Security Journal
The Cold, Hard Realism of Saudi Hedging
Leon Hadar Asia Times
One Cheer for Trump’s Germany Troop Withdrawal
Doug Bandow TAC
Putin’s Strongman Image Is Fading
Yaroslav Trofimov Wall Street Journal
A Weaker Russia is More Dangerous
Emzari Gelashvili Newsweek
Trump’s China Trip Is Set Up To Fail
Charlie Campbell Time
What the Trump-Xi Summit Means for U.S. Businesses
Joseph Lai RealClearWorld
Europe’s Far Right Is Not in Decline
Cas Mudde The Guardian
Local UK Elections Could Decide Starmer’s Fate
Alex Morales & Fran Wang Bloomberg
A Direct Strike on Mexico’s Vile Cartel Pipeline
Richie Greenberg New York Post
Israel 'Genocide' Allegation Is Misguided
Brian L. Cox RealClearWorld
Rubio’s Rome Challenge
Hannah Roberts Politico EU
How Mao Misled the West
David Lewis Schaefer Modern Age
U.S. in Line To Be Eritrea’s Latest Suitor
Elfadil Ibrahim Responsible Statecraft


Friday, May 8
Donald Trump’s Grand Strategy Reset
James Jay Carafano & Kaush Arha TNI
The Gulf Is Still America’s to Lose
Daniel Benaim and Elisa Ewers Foreign Affairs
A Bloc Realignment in the Middle East
Hamza Zaman RealClearWorld
Israel’s ‘Permanent Security’ Quest
Martin Di Caro Responsible Statecraft
Ukraine Suddenly Has the Upper Hand
Frida Ghitis INSIGHT
Starmer Vows To Fight On As PM
Kiran Stacey The Guardian
Farage Revelling in Victory
Anthony J. Constantini Brussels Signal
What Happened to the Green Wave?
Ross Clark Spectator
Beijing Is Playing a Long Game on Taiwan
Hsiao and Glaser Foreign Affairs
The Harvesting of North Korea’s Soldiers
J.T. Young Substack
Iran Weaponizes Petroyuan in War Reparations Push
Chris Ogden Asia Times
Why the Petrodollar Is a Logistics System
Emir Phillips Oil Price
A Turkish Media Operation on X
Eitan Fischberger Fisch Files
A Second Commencement Address (For the Life You Wanted)
Prometheus RCW
The Lesson of Weimar? Don’t Ban the AfD
Katja Hoyer UnHerd
Don’t Let V-E Day Become a Secular Myth
Jonathon Van Maren European Conservative
Saturday, May 9
How the Strait of Hormuz Has Become a Weapon of War
Lee & Longley Bloomberg
The U.S. Blockade of Iran Is a Means, Not an End
Makovsky & Misztal TNI
America Has Lost the Will To Fight
Edward Luttwak UnHerd
Victory or Defeat, Iranian Old Regime's Fate is Sealed
Ronald Tiersky RCW
U.S. Intel Report on Iran’s New Supreme Leader
Cohen Bertrand & Sciutto CNN
America at 250: Museum or Nation?
James Thorne X
Two Wars That Show Russia is Falling Behind
Mike Watson Washington Free Beacon
No, Russia Isn’t Finished
Leonid Ragozin The American Conservative
The Most Significant Local Elections for a Generation
Tim Shipman Spectator
Britain’s Center Left Was Badly Bruised
Francois Valentin Persuasion
In Defense of Germany’s Merz
John Kampfner Politico EU
Many Labour MPs Are Blaming Starmer
Chris Mason & Iain Watson BBC News
Why Israel-UAE Ties Are Warming
Dov Zakheim The Hill
The New Age of Supply Chain Warfare
Richard Weitz The National Interest
Rare Earth Maps Are Being Redrawn to Include Greenland
Carl Popal RCW
War Against Iran Reinforces U.S. Hegemony
Sérvulo González & Fariza El País
China’s Grey-Zone Fleet Is Eroding Taiwan’s Control at Sea
Nathan Attrill ASPI
Why Oil-Rich Alberta May Secede From Canada
Tate Kaufman Reason



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