RealClearWorld Week of April 20, 2026 Archives

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Monday, April 20

Stay the Course With Iran, President Trump

Gordon Sondland Fox News

Gulf Poised To Move Closer to China After the War

Burak Elmali Asia Times

Can Saudi Arabia Keep Hedging?

Maria Fantappie and Vali Nasr Foreign Affairs

Canada in the EU?

Matteo Vecchi Geopolitical Monitor

EU Industrial Policy Fails

Adrian Przybylak Brussels Signal

Germany Is Reinventing Itself as a Weapons Factory

Bojan Pancevski WSJ

Middle East Oil Pricing Is Cracking Under Pressure

Alex Kimani Oil Price

Tuesday, April 21

How the Iran Conflict Is Reshaping Global Power

J.T. Young Substack

Why the Iran Conflict Is So Hard To End.

Joshua Keating Vox

Iran’s Supreme Leader No Longer Reigns Supreme

Hamidreza Azizi Time

How to Fight an Economic War

Edward Fishman Foreign Affairs

Britannia No Longer Rules the Waves

Harlan Ullman The Hill

The Mandelson Scandal Could Topple Starmer

Iain Macwhirter American Conservative

Next Supply Chain Runs Through the Caucasus

Joseph Epstein Newsweek

Wednesday, April 22

The Ghost of Saigon in Tehran

Stephen Cook RealClearDefense

The Strait of Hormuz in 8 Charts

Matthew P. Funaiole et al. CSIS

How to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz

Luke Coffey Hudson Institute

Iran Dissidents Bemoan European Silence

Reuters

Putting the Austro-Hungarian Empire Back on the Map

Nette Nöstlinger Politico EU

Postliberalism’s Hungary Gambit Failed

Thomas D. Howes Civitas Outlook

Iraq Turns to Risky Overland Routes

Alex Kimani Oil Price

Thursday, April 23

The New World Order of 2027

Marc Liebman RealClearDefense

Why the Iran Blockade Isn’t Working

Shukriya Bradost The National Interest

A Power Struggle in Iran Bursts to the Surface

Frida Ghitis Substack

Who Is Really Leading Iran?

Jawad Iqbal Spectator

Happy “St. George Wasn’t Even English” Day!

Paul Birch The European Conservative

How the U.S. Can Restore Its Arsenal

Will Thibeau American Mind

Israel’s Legitimacy Isn’t Debatable Under International Law

Roy K. Altman RCB