RealClearWorld Week of January 12, 2026 Archives

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Monday, January 12

Iran: Is This a Revolution?

Nazee Moinian RealClearWorld

Europe’s Silence on Iran

Dov Maimon Times of Israel

Germany Plans NATO Mission To Protect Greenland

Lily Shanagher The Telegraph

Berlin’s Blackouts: Dark Streets, Dim Management

Sabine Beppler-Spahl TEC

Venezuelan Warns His Country ‘Isn’t Free Yet’

Virginia Allen The Daily Signal

Influence of Sea Power Upon the 21st Century

Francis P. Sempa RealClearWorld

The Myth of the AI Race

Colin H. Kahl Foreign Affairs

Tuesday, January 13

Iranian Protesters Are Showing True Courage

Melanie Phillips New York Post

The Ayatollah Will Fight to the Death

Christopher de Bellaigue UnHerd

Iran’s Revolution

Bernard-Henri Lévy Tablet

Trump’s Wild West Doctrine Freezes European Brains

Tim Ross Politico EU

Shadow Tankers, Hard Power, and an Unready UK

James Fennell CEPA

Why Putin Still Prefers War

Andrei Kolesnikov Foreign Affairs

The Architecture of Middle East Stability

Ahmed Charai The National Interest

Wednesday, January 14

'Spheres of Influence’ Is Destined To Fail

Alexander Motyl 19FortyFive

A New Era of ‘Wolf Warrior’ Diplomacy

Seongeun Lee Asia Times

Don’t Turn Iran Into Another Iraq

Michael Goodwin New York Post

Iranians Just Want a Normal Country

Roohola Ramezani Substack

Why the U.S. Is Unprepared for Iranian Regime Change

Joshua Yaphe TNI

Germany: Europe’s Growth Engine or Basket Case?

Sven R. Larson TEC

Hegseth Declares War on Pentagon Bureaucracy

Rob Bluey The Daily Signal

Thursday, January 15

Is the Middle East Reaching a Boiling Point?

Mohammed Ayoob The National Interest

Russia Is the World’s Worst Patron

Gabuev and Vakulenko Foreign Affairs

The U.S. Military Can’t Do Everything at Once

Nancy A. Youssef The Atlantic

Tech Billionaires Behind Greenland Bid & ‘Freedom Cities’

Pavel Devyatkin ResState

Birmingham Is a Case Study in How DEI Initiatives Go Wrong

Fraser Myers TAC

Immigration is Reaching a Tipping Point

Gary Abernathy Substack

Thailand: The Frontline Nobody’s Watching

Michael Hollister Geopolitical Monitor

Profile in First Amendment Courage: Alan Dershowitz

David DesRosiers RCP