RealClearWorld Week of August 10, 2026 Archives

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Monday, August 10
Are We on the Brink of World War Three?
Tom Switzer Spectator
Why Is Iran Acting Like It Is Holding All the Cards
Damian Paletta Wall Street Journal
Trump: “We Are Low-Keying It” With Iran
Barak Ravid Axios
Why the U.S. Will Have To Accept a Hormuz Toll
Dan Depetris Responsible Statecraft
Rebuilding Western Values
Nick Freitas Get Real
Would Putin Attack NATO?
Andrew Latham 19FortyFive
Netanyahu Rejects U.S.-Led Gaza Peace Plan
Andrew Rotherham The Guardian
The One-State Solution’s Unavoidable Hamas Dilemma
Conor Tobin Times of Israel
Ceuta Crisis Was Hastily Declared Over
Ralph Schoellhammer Brussels Signal
India-China Thaw Is a Supply-Chain Truce
Mansoor Qaisar Asia Times
Why China Worries About North Korea
Zheng Jiyong Foreign Affairs
China’s Weaponization of U.S. Food Security
Ellen R. Wald The National Interest
Will Alberta Become the 51st State?
Mickey Djuric Politico
The Rising Threat of Jihadi Bioterrorism
Steven Stalinsky MEMRI
Somali Pirates Are Back
Rose George UnHerd


Tuesday, August 11
Iran Changed the Rules, Now the Gulf Responds
Mark Pfeifle Aljazeera
Trump Can’t Lose Gambling With Iran’s Economy
James Jay Carafano 19FortyFive
Trump-Netanyahu Rift Widens
Zakrzewski Soroka and DeYoung Washington Post
A Grim Turning Point in Ukraine War
Owen Matthews Spectator
We Fed the Dragon – and Lost the Narrative
Chris Fenton RealClearPolitics
How Xi Jinping Broke the China Dream
Robert Wihtol ASPI Strategist
Beijing’s Closed-Door Strategy
Christopher Nye & Charles Sun China Briefing
China’s Hunger Games
Caitlin Welsh and Brian Hart Foreign Affairs
Iran’s Internal Repression Is Exporting Instability
Hamid Enayat RealClearWorld
Israel’s Suspended Armenian Genocide Vote
Stephan Pechdimaldji Jerusalem Post
The Fascism Expert Who Cried Wolf—Now in Germany
Frank-Christian Hansel AG
Brexit Has Been Better for Britain Than You Might Think
Robert Tombs Telegraph
Europe's Moonshot for a Missile Defense System
Donald Ramsay RealClearWorld
How France Became a Big-Tech Colony
Harrison Stetler UnHerd
The North Sea Is Full of Robots
Nicholas Earl Politico EU


Wednesday, August 12
Iran War Talks Hit Fresh Impasse
Elwely Elwelly and Parisa Hafezi Reuters
Why Isn’t Iran Attacking Israel?
Mike Evans Jerusalem Post
America’s Fatal Attraction to War
Emma Ashford Foreign Affairs
Iran’s Dangerous Midterm Strategy
Victor Davis Hanson The Daily Signal
What Is the Point of the New ‘Muslim NATO?’
Simon Diggins Spectator
Does the U.S. Have Two Policies Dealing With Venezuela
Richard M. Sanders RCW
The EU Has Tightened Migration Rules
Lassi Murto Brussels Signal
The European Free Speech Crisis
Derek Lux RealClearBooks
A New Dark Age or the Next Renaissance?
Alex Tokarev & Georgi Harizanov TEC
Zelensky’s Balkan Fumble
Una Hajdari Politico EU
Andy Burnham’s Laughably Unserious Summer
Gareth Roberts Spectator
Houthis Escalate Attacks in the Red Sea
Roland Oliphant The Telegraph
The High Price of Engaging Myanmar’s Junta
Nyein Chan Aye Asia Times
The China Shock Comes to Africa
Dan Swift and Cameron Timlin The Hill
How the Egypt-Ethiopia Feud Could Upend Trump’s Plans
Jonathan Harvey RS


Thursday, August 13
Iran Just Raised the Price of Trump’s Waiting Game
Charbel A. Antoun The Hill
Welcome to Fortress Iran
Arta Moeini UnHerd
The Next Economic Crisis Could Be Made in China
Michael B. G. Froman FA
Europe’s Foreign Policy Veto Is Not a Flaw
Michael Thoma The European Conservative
Every Day Has a New Challenge in Cuba
José de Córdoba Wall Street Journal
U.S., Korea Should Focus on the Big Picture
Wendy Cutler Newsweek
There Is No Negotiating With Iran
Jonathan Sweet and Mark Toth The Hill
The Next Middle East Conflict is Forming in Syria
Lora Karch RealClearWorld
Syria’s Leaders Need To Prove They Can Be Trusted
Ilan Berman Washington Post
The Strategic Rationale for the Mecca Pact
Mohammed Ayoob The National Interest
The Houthis Could Be First Big Test for Mecca Pact
Mohammed Nail Abdulqader RS
Another Benchmark Year in Royal Navy Decline
Steven Wills War on the Rocks
Israel Somaliland Recognition: Two Conflicts Collide
Zac Knapp Geopolitical Monitor
Al Jazeera Cuts Its Gaza Staff
Toby Dershowitz RealClearWorld
Eight of the World’s Weirdest Border Crossings
Chris Beanland The Telegraph


Friday, August 14
Iran Is Draining Its Leverage in the Strait of Hormuz
Landon Derentz Atlantic Council
The Irony of Iran
Charles V. Peña RealClearWorld
Moderates vs. Hard-Liners
Ali Omar Forozish Tablet
What Total Iranian Victory Over Trump Looks Like
Tom O'Connor Newsweek
The Mecca Pact Is Not a Sunni NATO
Tanya Goudsouzian & Ibrahim Al-Marashi TNI
NATO’s Answer to the Pentagon’s Europe Review Exists
Andrew A. Michta 1945
There’s a Logic to Trump’s Incendiary Diplomacy
Blake Neff Spectator
The Atlantic Charter: 85 Years Later
P. Bruce McLaren RealClearWorld
Europe’s Economy Faces Two Fronts: Weather and War
Ziady & Cooban CNN
Farage’s Victory Won’t Silence His Critics
Sam Blewett Politico EU
Japan’s Energy Diplomacy Needs To Go Greener
Luke Hahn East Asia Forum
China’s Capital Flight Is Fueling Global AI
Craig Mellow Barrons
North Korea Doubles Down on Its Alliance With Russia
Daniel Sneider Asia Times
Colombia’s President Wants to Join U.S. Antidrug Campaign
Terrence McCoy WaPo
Marco Rubio’s Havana Syndrome
Theo Zenou UnHerd
Cuba’s Kleptocratic Legacy
John Suarez Brussels Signal
Fear Not for AUKUS
Nick Crouch ASPI Strategist



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