RealClearWorld Week of June 23, 2025 Archives

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Monday, June 23

Oil Prices Crash After Iran Strikes U.S. Bases

Shahriar Sheikhlar OilPrice.com

On Iran, Trust Trump’s Instincts

Roger Kimball Spectator World

Sinwar’s March of Folly

Jeffrey Goldberg The Atlantic

Trump Risks a Strategic Misfire in Iran

Jon Hoffman The American Conservative

Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program Isn’t Dead Yet

Michael Rubin NSJ

Russia Still Wants to Remake the World

Ilan Berman The National Interest

Europe’s Two-Front War

Gideon Rose and Erik Jones Foreign Affairs

Tuesday, June 24

EU Leaders Gather in Belgium, Look to Middle East Situation

Addison Graham RCP

Donald Trump’s Strategic Bombardment

Edward Luttwak UnHerd

Trump Takes Middle East Ceasefire To Trade War Strategy

Lefebvre et al. Politico

Don’t Give up So Quickly on the Liberal International Order

Sam Kahn Substack

A Powerful Deterrent to the CRINK Alliance

Helen Raleigh The Federalist

Who Would Compete for Power in Iran?

Kian Tajbakhsh The New Republic

Indonesia’s “Zero Enemies” Gambit Already at Risk

Rob Wasinger AG

Wednesday, June 25

Did Iran Win the 12-Day War?

Sohrab Ahmari UnHerd

Iran Will Never Recover From Its Humiliation

Paul du Quenoy The Telegraph

The ‘Forever War’ We Should Really Be Worried About

Brendan O'Neill Spiked

Strait of Hormuz: A Geopolitical Risk Ignored by Asia

Mohamed ELDoh Geo. Mon.

Europe Has Neither Hard or Soft Power

Anthony J. Constantini Brussels Signal

Beware the Europe You Wish For

Celeste A. Wallander Foreign Affairs

U.N. Quietly Lowers Population Forecasts

Bill King RealClearPolitics

Thursday, June 26

For Trump, Politics is Battle

Waters and Ellwanger RealClearWorld

Trump’s Risky Iran Bet

Natasha Lindstaedt Asia Times

Iran’s Flying Monkeys

Tony Badran Tablet

Don’t Read the Funeral Rites for MAGA Restraint Yet

Jack Hunter Res. Statecraft

South Korea Will Not Choose Between the U.S. and China

Kyuri & Kang TNI

Will the Houthis Survive if Iran Cuts Them Off?

Michael Rubin AEI

For the Congo, Peace in Theory

Michelle Gavin Council on Foreign Relations