RealClearWorld Week of August 17, 2026 Archives

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Monday, August 17
Who Breaks First? Iran's Economy or U.S.'s Patience
Jack Buckby NSJ
Will the Gulfies Dump Trump?
Reuel Marc Gerecht UnHerd
What Does the End of the MoU Mean for the War?
Sarah Shamim Al-Jazeera
Lesson of the UAE, Abraham Accords
Shimon Refaeli Jerusalem Post
Ceuta Tests Spain’s Border and Exposes Britain’s
Conrad Black Brussels Signal
The Jolt Germany Asked For
Russell Berman 19FortyFive
Russia’s Allies Are More Helpful Than Ukraine’s
Phillips P. O’Brien Asia Times
Why Europe May Come To Miss MAGA
Henry Olsen Brussels Signal
Russia & China Are Helping North Korea Dodge Sanctions
Edward Howell Spectator
The Cost of Keeping China Out
Peter Cowhey and Meg Rithmire Foreign Affairs
Jason Arday’s Death Is Dreadful – and Enraging
Brendan O'Neill Spectator
Tories Try To Retake the City of London
Hannah Brenton Politico EU
The Taliban’s Second Five-Year Anniversary
Farhad and Dehsabzi The National Interest
Trump Shouldn't Make Another Iran Mistake in Cuba
McCallion & DePetris TAC
DSA Praises Fidel Castro in 100th Birthday Tribute
Jarrett Stepman The Daily Signal


Tuesday, August 18
‘Axis of Resistance’ Is Bloodied but Unbroken
Nabih Bulos Los Angeles Times
Iran’s Rulers Wary of More Economic Pain
Parisa Hafezi Reuters
Europe Is Unprepared for a U.S. Victory in Iran
Henry Olsen Brussels Signal
Failing Chinese Economy Is Becoming Dangerous
Charles Parton The Telegraph
How Alliances Survive
Kurt M. Campbell and Rush Doshi Foreign Affairs
How President Trump Can End the Korean War
Michael S. Kochin American Greatness
Russia’s Outdated Military Culture Is Losing
David Kirichenko The National Interest
Strikes Won’t Give Zelensky a Military Advantage
Bethany Elliott UnHerd
The Test of U.S.-China Ties Is in the Western Pacific
Hal Brands Bloomberg
Iran Needs an Insurgency
Michael Rubin Middle East Forum
Advocating Insurgency, Vilifying the Insurgents
Ali Safavi RealClearWorld
The Ceuta Crisis Isn’t Over
Jim Lawley Spectator
British Parties Refused to Challenge Farage
Matt Cookson RealClearWorld
Who Are Hamas’s Adversaries in Gaza?
Neville Teller Jerusalem Post
What's Wrong in Canada?
Jonathan Leaf Washington Free Beacon


Wednesday, August 19
Iran’s Regional Ambitions Have Been Scaled Back
Aviva Klompas USA Today
Donald Trump Is Trapped in the Iran War
Robert E. Kelly 19FortyFive
Iran Rebuilds Its Ranks With the Old Guard
Efrat Lachter Fox News
Fired Defense Minister Demands Elections in Ukraine
Stern & Galouchka Wash. Post
Putin’s Bluster and Russian Incompetence
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon The Telegraph
U.S. Envoy: Israel's Strikes in Syria Risk Escalation
Amichai Stein Jerusalem Post
Turkey’s Bid for a Modern Ottoman Empire
Kassy Akiva The Daily Wire
Trump Has Handed a Gift to Kim Jong Un
Brad Lendon CNN
Hungary’s New Government is 'All in on NATO'
Logan C. West RealClearWorld
Moscow’s Former Colonies Are Done Taking Orders
Joseph Epstein Newsweek
How the Danish Migration Model Works
Antonio O'Mullony Brussels Signal
The Remarkable Longevity of Nigel Farage
Gareth Roberts Spectator
Will Trump Target Mexico Next?
Juan David Rojas UnHerd
Taliban Has Brought Afghanistan Near Collapse
Amin Saikal Asia Times
AI and the New Age of Bioweapons
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall Foreign Affairs


Thursday, August 20
Trump’s Iran Plan Will Live or Die in Dubai
Kantchev Gramer & Said Wall Street Journal
The End of the American Middle East
Marc Lynch Foreign Affairs
U.S. Conducting Stealth Operation Through Hormuz
Barak Ravid Axios
Putin’s Faltering War Economy
Lisa Haseldine Spectator
It’s Time to Apologize to Ukrainians
Ted Snider The American Conservative
How Europeans Can Loosen Russia’s Grip on Belarus
Vasil Navumau ECFR
The EU Is Controlling the Ceuta Narrative
Brian Chau UnHerd
How Russia Can Escalate Against Britain
David Blair & Roland Oliphant The Telegraph
Houthis May Meet Their Match
Mohammed Nail Abdulqader Responsible Statecraft
Trump Can’t Rekindle the Spark With Kim Jong Un
Joshua Keating Vox
America’s Unstoppable Hispanic Future
Antonio De Loera-Brust UnHerd
Iran Tells Iraqi Militias Not To Disarm
Elfadil Ibrahim Responsible Statecraft
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Will Return to Britain
Steve Hendrix WashPost
A Fleet Managed One Crisis at a Time
Andrew Latham 19FortyFive
How to Understand African Security
O’Hanlon and Maddipatla The National Interest


Friday, August 21
There’s Still Time To Save the West
Mathias Döpfner Spectator
NATO’s Next Nightmare: French Election
Victor Jack and Laura Kayali Politico EU
Europe Burns, Brussels Regulates
Konstantinos Bogdanos Brussels Signal
Why America’s Left Cares So Much About Europe
J.T. Young Substack
Trump's Victory in Iran War Proves Elusive
Rachel Chason et al. Washington Post
Trump Might've Crack the Code on Hormuz
Jack Buckby National Security Journal
Et tu, Fedorov?
Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet The Hill
Ukraine Corruption Scandal Deepens
Remix News
Bulgaria’s PM Radev Remains a Complicated Ally
Mattew Boyse RealClearWorld
Europe’s Future Is Looking Increasingly Polish
Daniel Johnson The Telegraph
Erdogan’s Kurdish Gambit
Robert Ellis The National Interest
Why Criminals Love the Chinese Economy
Alvin Camba Foreign Affairs
Trump Is Blinded by His Relationship With Kim Jong Un
Tom Rogan DC Examiner
Hormuz Isn’t the Only Major Shipping Route in Crisis
Kate Aronoff The New Republic
Egypt, Ethiopia Vie for Regional Influence
Giorgia Valente Jerusalem Post
The DSA Has a Castro Problem
Emily Jashinsky UnHerd
Economists Should Be Worried About Birth Rates
Noah Smith Substack
Saturday, August 22
Combining Geoeconomic and Kinetic Warfare
Francis Sempa American Spectator
Why Iran Has Not Folded Yet
Andrew L. Peek and Jonathan Panikoff Atlantic Council
Iran Set To Punish for Contact With Foreign Media
Seyed Rahim Bathaei CBS News
How Will Harsh U.S. Sanctions on Iran Play Out?
Charles Lipson Spectator
Iran’s Most Devious Weapon: October Surprise
Mark Dubowitz New York Post
Israel’s New Syria Dilemma
Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post
Kushner Has What Middle East Diplomacy Requires
Jason D. Greenblatt Newsweek
U.S.-Canada Trade Talks Collapse
Rachel Lerman Washington Post
The Collapse of the Postwar Order
B. Duncan Moench UnHerd
Britain Is a State Afraid of Facts Over Grooming Gangs
Conrad Black Brussels Signal
Odds are Against Spain's PM Sanchez
Aitor Hernandez-Morales Politico EU
South Korea’s Economy at Risk
William Pesek Asia Times
What Needs to Happen Before Trump-Kim Jong Un Meeting
Fred Fleitz AG
European Elite Institutions Attack Free Speech
Jarrett Stepman The Daily Signal
Uncertainly Still Clouds the Chinese Body Politic
Willy Wo-Lap Lam China Brief
Is China Replacing Russia as Central Asia’s Arms Supplier?
Arjun Singh TNI
Brazil’s New Oil Frontier
Alex Kimani Oil Price



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