RealClearWorld Week of August 3, 2026 Archives

RealClearWorld PM Update

Monday, August 3

U.S. Needs Tactical Success To Be a Strategic Victory

Robert Maginnis Fox News

The Strait Iran Cannot Let Go Of

Jacob Childress RealClearWorld

Is Israel the New Litmus Test for Democrats?

Farida Dowidar GZero Media

Weaponized Migration Menaces Europe

William Nattrass UnHerd

Spain’s Politicians Blame Morocco Over Ceuta

Aitor Hernandez-Morales Politico EU

Cuba Plunges Into Darkness As Electric Grid Collapses

Reuters

The Pope’s AI Politics

Graham McAleer Civitas Outlook

Tuesday, August 4

Two Wars Are Becoming One

Owen Matthews Spectator

The Iran and Ukraine Wars Were Never Separate

John Bolton Washington Post

The Cycle of Fight, Talk, Repeat Isn't Working With Iran

Eric R. Mandel The Hill

Trump Should Just Declare Victory in the Iran War

Ivan Eland The National Interest

Putin Is Losing Russia’s Empire on Trump’s Watch

Joseph Epstein Newsweek

Russia Is Far from Defeated

Sofia Slonovska CEPA

Is Washington Rewriting Trade Around China?

Daniel Rechtschaffen War on the Rocks

Wednesday, August 5

What Do All Sides Want in the Hormuz Deal?

Caolán Magee Aljazeera

Israelis Are Angry at Europe, yet Still Drawn to It

Sharon Pardo Jerusalem Post

Trump's Friendship With Problematic Erdogan

MEMRI

Leipzig Drone Bomb Marks a Dangerous Escalation

Dan Sabbagh The Guardian

Putin Overhauls War Effort in Ukraine

Thomas Grove Wall Street Journal

Spain’s Government on the Defensive

Tasha Kheiriddin GZero Media

Indonesia’s Beijing Gambit

Ronny P. Sasmita Geopolitical Monitor

Thursday, August 6

The Long View of Iran

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness

Trump, Hegseth Clashed Over Munition Shortages

Tara Copp et al. Washington Post

Iran, Israel and Saudi Arabia’s Allies

Tom O'Connor Newsweek

Why We Should Fight

Kori Schake Foreign Affairs

The State Department’s War on Far-Left Terrorism

Kyle Shideler American Mind

How Nukes Made the World Safer

Alex Alfirraz Scheers Spectator

Can Cambridge Weather the Arday Storm?

Paul Sagar UnHerd