RealClearWorld Week of July 20, 2026 Archives

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Monday, July 20
U.S. Teeters on All-Out War With Iran
DeYoung Copp and Lamothe Washington Post
The War, the Oil Crisis and American Politics
George Friedman Geopolitical Futures
What the U.S. and Iran Are Fighting Over
Michael Doran The Free Press
An Unwinnable Standoff at Hormuz
Leon Hadar Asia Times
Trump’s Pipeline Wars
James Thorne X
Winning the War Is Not Enough for Israel’s Survival and Security
Jerusalem Post
Pakistan Won the War in Iran
Asfandyar Mir Foreign Affairs
Zelensky’s Reshuffle and Protests in Ukraine
Jana Kobzova ECFR
Russia May Not be Able to Afford Peace
Andrew Latham 19FortyFive
Can Burnham Save UK's Economy?
Hanna Ziady CNN
UK's Andy Burnham, Is a Far-Left Human Windsock
Tom Slater New York Post
Keir Starmer Leaves the Country in a Terrible State
Ameer Kotecha Spectator
Greeks Ready To Pick a Fight About ‘The Odyssey’
Nektaria Stamouli Politico EU
Spain Outlasts Argentina To Win Second World Cup Title
Andrew Greif NBC News
Last Hope of the Holy Land’s Christians
Declan Hayes The European Conservative


Tuesday, July 21
How Trump Can Avoid the Vietnam Trap
Mike Watson Washington Free Beacon
Victory Disease: When Winning Begets Defeat
Frida Ghitis Substack
A New Front in U.S.-Iran War
Ellen Francis and Victoria Craw Washington Post
Iran’s Fortitude Is Its Decisive Edge
Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh WSJ
How America Can Actually Win the War Against Iran
Pesach Wolicki Jerusalem Post
The Gulf’s China Problem
Alsudairi Ghiselli and Glasserman Foreign Affairs
The World Isn’t Chinamaxxing, It’s America-Avoidant
The Guardian
Why Israel May Never Leave Lebanon
Brendan Cole Newsweek
The Competition for Ukraine
Andrew Michta 19FortyFive
Farage’s Great Gamble
Fraser Myers The American Conservative
What Britain’s New Leader Is Learning From Donald Trump
Tim Ross Politico EU
Burnham’s Afternoon of the Long Knives
Aaron Bastani UnHerd
Trump Is Righting Latin America
Arthur Schaper American Greatness
Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism
State Department
Are the Wildfires Really Canada’s Fault?
Rafaela Siewert The Free Press


Wednesday, July 22
Russia Has Three Options To Respond to Ukraine
Bidochko and Umland TNI
Germany: A “Partner” in the Ukraine War
John David Rosenthal Substack
Ukraine Became the Gulf’s Counter-Drone Lifeline
Burak Oktenli Geopolitical Monitor
What Off-Ramps Are There With Iran?
Amber Phillips Washington Post
The Unrelenting Reality of the Iran War
Reuel Marc Gerecht The Dispatch
Washington Is Starting To Treat Syria and Iraq as One Policy
Seth Frantzman 1945
Syrian People Must Not Be Failed Again
Martin Griffiths Aljazeera
Washington’s Quiet Bid to Break China’s Grip on Iraq
Simon Watkins Oil Price
The UK Is a Cautionary Tale for the U.S.
Noah Smith Substack
Cuba is the Nerve Center of the Anti-American Left
Jarrett Stepman The Daily Signal
Colombia’s Transition Is Being Brokered on the Potomac
A. Munguia Spectator
Europe’s 27 Leaders To Take On AI — Finally
Pieter Haeck Politico EU
The Secret Battle To Fight Chinese AI
Maria Curi Axios
Why Does Trump Hate the State Department?
Peter Van Buren TAC
America Isn’t an Oligarchy
Tyler Cowen The Free Press


Thursday, July 23
Trump, Iran, and Napoleon’s Still-Relevant Maxim
Hugh Hewitt Fox News
Is Iran Turning Into a Forever War?
Mohamad Bazzi The Guardian
How the War Splits Iranians
Mitra Vand Persuasion
Iraq Emerging as an Accidental Iran War Winner
John Calabrese Asia Times
Ukraine’s Winning Strategy Against Russia: Attrition
Gentile and Radin The Hill
Plan To Pressure Putin Has a Glaring Flaw
Khamatdinova & Blackburn Res. Statecraft
Why Conservative Doubts on Taiwan Are Growing—and Wrong
Allen Zhang TNI
China’s Moment of Weakness
Logan Wright Foreign Affairs
China Is Helping Erdogan Build a Surveillance State
Stapleton & Ciddi RealClearWorld
Israel Fears U.S.-Saudi Deal
Tom O'Connor and Gabe Whisnant Newsweek
Jake Sullivan Can’t Sleep
Ira Stoll Washington Free Beacon
The National Rally Should Move on From Le Pen
Matt Cookson RealClearWorld
UK's Kemi Needs Her Centrists
Matthew Parris Spectator
The Fight Inside Trump’s State Department Is About Power
Phillip Linderman TAC
Why Isn’t U.S. Treating Nicaragua Like Cuba and Venezuela?
Gonzalo Zegarra CNN


Friday, July 24
One Choke Point After Another in the Global Economy
Emily Peck Axios
To Negotiate With Iran, Understand It First
Matthew Gould Washington Post
Aiming at the Gulf, Iran Shoots Itself in the Foot
Q. Cheema & M. Ahmad Murtiza RS
Can Israel Finally Make a Peace Deal With Lebanon Work?
Herb Keinon JPost
Israel Doesn’t Need Friends
Edward Luttwak UnHerd
How Israel Lost the Democrats
Caitlin Dewey Vox
Why Mamdani Is Targeting Netanyahu
Douglas Murray The Free Press
Eastern Mediterranean Gateway Act Is a Win-Win-Win
Jared Whitley RealClearWorld
China’s Export Mercantilism
James Rogan Washington Examiner
ASEAN Reclaims Its Centrality
Swaran Singh Asia Times
Why Germany’s Postwar Consensus Is Failing
Filip Gaspar The National Interest
Burnham Gives Jobs to Starmer Critics
Isabel Loubser Politico EU
Rubio's Right: Leftist Violence Is a Threat
Alberto Fernandez MEMRI
Who Was the Worst Monster of the 20th Century?
Noah Smith Substack
How the U.S. Can Survive a Large-Scale AI Cyberattack
Andrew Faulhaber CSIS
Saturday, July 25
America Must Rediscover Statecraft
Joshua S. Treviño Spectator
Trump Has Already Won the Iran War
James Carafano 19FortyFive
Time To Abandon Coercion As America’s Default Strategy
Chris McCallion RCW
The Global Energy Crisis Is About To Get Far Worse
Zeeshan Aleem MS Now
Houthis Claim Missile Attack on Saudi Arabia
Helen Sullivan BBC News
Qatar Needs To Cooperate With U.S. Extradition Efforts
Natalie Ecanow TDW
Russia's War and Putin's Choice
Andrew Chakhoyan RealClearWorld
Ukraine’s Long, Hidden War Within
Sarah Whitmore and Bettina Renz Asia Times
A Violent Confrontation in the South China Sea
Institute for the Study of War
South Korea’s Crackdown on U.S. Companies
Fred Fleitz American Greatness
America Must Confront China’s Hostage Diplomacy
Helen Raleigh The Federalist
Back to the ’70s in Burnham’s Britain?
Iain Macwhirter The American Conservative
Why Trump Tied Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear Future to Israel
Zineb Riboua The Free Press
Trump May Be Undermining His Own Saudi Nuclear Deal
Joshua Keating Vox
The Emerging Fracture on the Brazilian Right
Bruna Frascolla Compact
The Mali of the Mind
Theodore Dalrymple The American Conservative
Monday, July 27
The Middle East After the American Imperium
Leon Hadar Asia Times
Mr. President, Give Up on a Nuclear Deal With Iran
Eli Lake The Free Press
Israel and the Cost Paradox of the Iran War
Abdulla Banndar Al-Etaibi Aljazeera
Ukraine’s Strike on Iranian Tanker Is a Message for Trump
Joe Barnes Telegraph
The Meaning of Fedorov’s Firing
Ted Snider & Nicolai N. Petro The American Conservative
Ukraine Embraces the New Warmakers, Casts Off the Old
Mykyta Vorobiov CEPA
Trump’s Unpredictability & China’s Bullying in Asia
Craig Singleton Washington Post
How Asia Learned to Live With “America First”
John Lee Foreign Affairs
China Should Step up in Myanmar
Doug Bandow Responsible Statecraft
Shutting Off Cruz Control on China
Oren Cass and Daniel Kishi Common Place
We Should Politicise the Berlin Pride Attack
Brendan O'Neill Spectator
French Politicians Can’t Get Enough of ‘De Gaulle’
Marion Solletty Politico EU
Hungary's Slide Towards Authoritarianism
Rodrigo Ballester Brussels Signal
The Bitter Lesson of Climate Change
Bryan Walsh Vox
The Great Net Zero Showdown
John Rapley UnHerd



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