RealClearWorld Week of June 16, 2025 Archives

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Monday, June 16

Iran Signals It Wants To De-Escalate & Negotiate

Said Faucon & Peled WSJ

Israel Chose To Launch This War Without Clear Goals

Richard Haass MSNBC

Iran’s Long Arm Is Not So Muscular Anymore

Emile Hokayem IISS

Iraq in the Crossfire

Seth J. Frantzman The National Interest

Defending America’s Submerged Borders

Jesse H. Ausubel RealClearDefense

Will Labour Actually Act on the Grooming Gang Report?

Isabel Hardman Spectator

The Alliance That Won WWII

Robert Messenger Washington Free Beacon

Tuesday, June 17

What Exactly Was Iran Thinking—Or Not?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness

Don’t Get Dragged Into a War With Iran

William D. Hartung The National Interest

Welcome to the G-Something or Other Summit

Marina Hyde The Guardian

Failed ‘March to Gaza’ Was Pure Absurdity

Daniel McCarthy New York Post

The Cuban Uprising

Hernán Alberro Victims of Communism

Who’s Afraid of China’s Navy?

William S. Lind The American Conservative

Telling America’s Story in the Middle East

Andrew Walworth RealClearPolitics

Wednesday, June 18

America Should End Israel’s War

Daniel C. Kurtzer and Steven N. Simon Foreign Affairs

Defanging Iran, Would Weaken Russia and China

Mike Pompeo New York Post

Iran Is Nothing Like the Iraq War

David Harsanyi Washington Examiner

G7 Embraces ‘Realpolitik’

Koen Verhelst Giorgio Leali and Nick Taylor-Vaisey Politico EU

Europe’s Woke Police State

Jonathon Van Maren The European Conservative

Taliban Making Steady Gains Toward Global Legitimacy

Chris Fitzgerald Asia Times

Thursday, June 19

Israel’s War With Iran Isn’t One Conflict. It’s Three.

Hal Brands Bloomberg

Keep the Focus on Stopping Iran’s Nukes

New York Post

Iran Is Not the United States’ War To Fight

Adam Johnston The Federalist

Why China Won’t Come to Iran’s Rescue

Miquel Vila UnHerd

Chance Of Negotiations With Iran Over Next Two Weeks

White House

Russia’s Balkan Approaches

Ivana Stradner & Peter LaBelle FPRI

Africa’s Complicated Democratic Landscape

Cameron Hudson et al CSIS