RealClearWorld Week of June 22, 2026 Archives

RealClearWorld AM Update

Monday, June 22
U.S. Foreign Policy at 250
Hugh De Santis The National Interest
The Very Personal Tragedy of Keir Starmer
James Kirkup Spectator
Britain Is Broken, We Need an Election.
Nigel Farage Substack
The European Right Is Suffering From an Identity Crisis
William Nattrass UnHerd
The Fraud of CDU's Compromise
Sabine Beppler-Spahl The European Conservative
Trump’s War Accomplished Nothing
Kenneth Roth The Guardian
Middle East Pipeline Boom
Irina Slav Oil Price
Putin has a Drone Problem
Reuben Johnson National Security Journal
IDF Need To Rethink Its Slow War Doctrine
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post
Why Syria Isn’t the Answer to Lebanon’s Misery
Tanner Nau The Free Press
U.S. Policy in Syria Is Working
Abdulrahim Ismail and Bakr Ghbeis Newsweek
China Slaps Restrictions on Dozens of U.S. Companies
Katrina Northrop WSJ
China Could Win Taiwan Without Fighting
Haass and Sacks Foreign Affairs
Cuba Moves Under U.S. Pressure
George Friedman Geopolitical Futures
Trump-Backed Populist Wins Tight Colombia Presidential Vote
CBS News


Tuesday, June 23
The Nixon Doctrine Returns to the Middle East
Eldar Mamedov The National Interest
Israel Feels Exposed. Netanyahu Could Pay for It.
Damir Marusic Washington Post
Iran’s “Victory” Dilemma
Tom O'Connor Newsweek
Iran and the Limits of American Power
Csicsmann & Romaniuk Geopolitical Monitor
Britain's Lost Decade
Zachary Basu Axios
Britain Needs a Counter-Revolution
Mary Harrington UnHerd
An Actually Popular British Politician
Francois Valentin Persuasion
Will EU Make Remigration in 2027?
Javier Villamor The European Conservative
How Latin America Became More Trump-Aligned
Kejal Vyas & Michael Amon WSJ
A Second Milei Rises in Colombia
Juan David Rojas UnHerd
Putin’s Plan To Live Forever
Miles Bryan Vox
Why “China First” Will Fail
Patricia M. Kim Foreign Affairs
Washington Might Kill Dollar Dominance
Sam Fraser Responsible Statecraft
Spend Big on Defense To Save America’s Economic Might
Pete Hegseth NY Post
The Oil Crisis Is Far From Over
Kurt Cobb Oil Price


Wednesday, June 24
Here’s to Ten Years of Brexit Derangement Syndrome
Julie Burchill Spectator
Brexit Isn’t Working
Mark Leonard European Council on Foreign Relations
Burnham vs the Bond Markets
John Rapley UnHerd
Europe Braces for Trump’s Wrath
Mike Zapler Axios
Trump Gets His Deal, but Netanyahu Gets a Nightmare
Schoen and Mangel The Hill
Ukraine Is Spoiling Putin’s Vision for Crimea
Mary Ilyushina et al. Washington Post
America and Israel Are Inseparable Allies
Ahmed Charai The National Interest
An Iran Deal Hinges on These Two Factors
Scarlett Kennedy The American Conservative
Iran Can’t Get Any Control Over the Strait of Hormuz
New York Post
Companies Preparing to Bypass Iranian Tolls
Avi Salzman Barrons
How Iran Plans to Consolidate Its Victory
Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh WSJ
The Mirage of China’s Military Edge
Dennis Blair Foreign Affairs
Germany’s Army Reboots for a Possible War with Russia
Caleb Larson 19FortyFive
Why Anti-Migrant Attacks Are Flaring in South Africa
Mike Cohen Bloomberg
Operation Barbarossa, 85 Years Later
Srdja Trifkovic Chronicles


Thursday, June 25
Erosion of the Nation-State
Graham McAleer Law & Liberty
Will Vance be the Fall Guy Over Iran Deal?
Andrew Roth The Guardian
Iran Didn’t Win the War
James F. Jeffrey Foreign Affairs
Who’s in Charge in Tehran?
Ron MacCammon Washington Examiner
Moscow Missile Strikes Threaten Putin’s Grip on Power
Tom Cotterill The Telegraph
European Elites Push Ukraine Escalation
Leonid Ragozin The American Conservative
What’s in Andy Burnham’s Brexit In-Tray?
Jon Stone Politico EU
Can Burnham Resist the Siren Call of the Left?
Tim Shipman Spectator
China’s Weakening Economy
Lucille Liu and Yujing Liu Bloomberg
Why the U.S. Shouldn’t Dismiss Taiwan’s Cheng Li-wun
Paul Heer National Interest
The Web Tightened, and Havana Blinked
Jacob Childress RealClearWorld
Venezuela's Steps Toward Democratic Transition
David Smilde Responsible Statecraft
Kenya Braces for Return of Gen Z Protests
Yashraj Sharma Aljazeera
Sports Diplomacy in Action
Diana L. Banister RealClearWorld
U.S. Shipbuilding Industry Is Not Ready for a War
Arjun Vohra Geopolitical Monitor


Friday, June 26
Wartime Diplomacy and Secret Deals
Pierre Asselin War on the Rocks
How Tehran Reads the 14-Point MOU
James S. Robbins RealClearWorld
The Gulf Is Building Ways Around Hormuz
Jack Buckby National Security Journal
Who’s Afraid of the Good War?
Josh Appel Tablet
Will Trump Finally Restrain Netanyahu?
Mohamad Bazzi The Guardian
What the Iran Conflict Actually Changed
J.T. Young Substack
Qatar is a Dependable and Valuable Ally
Mike Flanagan RealClearWorld
Rubio’s New Job? Selling Trump’s Iran Deal to a Worried Gulf.
Washington Post
The Five Pillars for Renewing Western Civilization
Johnny Patterson Get Real
What Is the Labour Party Waiting For?
The Telegraph
Why Britain Needs Political Chameleons
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
Germany’s Perfect Storm of Social Decline
Sven R. Larson The European Conservative
Venezuela’s Earthquakes Test U.S. Disaster Relief
Sam Vigersky CFR
Brazil Backs Up Pro-Censorship Judge
Margot Cleveland The Federalist
Who Is Winning Africa’s Drone Wars?
Nate Allen and Rida Lyammouri Foreign Affairs
Armenia-Kazakhstan Ties Are Expanding
Akopyan & Kassenova The National Interest
Saturday, June 27
Mideast Fighting Widens
Benoit Faucon Wall Street Journal
Trump Hands Iran Economic Lifeline
Susannah George Washington Post
Saudi Arabia’s Strategy of Self-Reliance
Amir Handjani The National Interest
A Trilateral Framework To Disarm Hezbollah
Goldie Katz Jerusalem Post
Why Putin Needs a Deal with Trump Now
Fred Fleitz American Greatness
Influence, Transparency, and Governance in Brussels
Nicoletta Kouroushi TEC
Germany’s Far Right Is Finally Poised for Power
John Kampfner Politico EU
What I Learned in Hungary
Rod Dreher The Free Press
The Myth of the King of the North
James Rebanks UnHerd
The Donroe Doctrine 2.0
Stefano Gennarini RealClearWorld
What Venezuela Has Hidden for 27 Years
Marian Da Silva Parra Washington Post
Just How Much Trouble Is Canada’s Economy In?
Jessica Murphy BBC News
What Capitalism Will Look Like in Space
Rainer Zitelmann New York Post
Anti-Zionists Have a Broken Moral Compass
Pamela Paresky Get Real
South Africa Now Has Its Answer to ICE
Geoff Hill Spectator
Europe Discovers the Land of Plenty
Mike Watson Washington Free Beacon



Copyright © RealClearWorld, LLC
© RealClearWorld | | Go to full site