RealClearWorld Week of May 18, 2026 Archives

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Monday, May 18

5 Iran War Scenarios as Trump Weighs Options

Newsweek

Kyiv Enters a Hopeful Spring

Anastasiia Malenko Wall Street Journal

The Saddest Countries All Speak English

Arthur Brooks The Free Press

Losing—and Recovering—Our Religion

Jason Bedrick Civitas Outlook

In Cuba, Socialism Has Morphed Into A Racket

James Bloodworth Persuasion

Former Chief: BBC Is Full of ‘Progressive Madness’

Archie Earle UnHerd

Africa Offers More Than Liberal Moralists Know

Eldar Mamedov TAC

Tuesday, May 19

U.S. Targets Cuba’s Leaders With New Sanctions

Jim Wyss Bloomberg

Cuba Doesn't Belong to Trump

The Guardian

Netanyahu Pushes for U.S. Military Aid Drawdown

Bowman & Leopold-Cohen FDD

China-Russia Relations Are As Strong as Ever

Leonid Ragozin Aljazeera

No More Free Ride for Canada

James Thorne X

Major Parties in Britain and Germany Are Failing To Learn

Henry Donovan Spectator

Trump Is Snatching the Deep Sea’s Riches

Tom Ough UnHerd

Wednesday, May 20

The Limits to the Xi and Putin Alliance

Marcin Kaczmarski Asia Times

Can France Step Up in NATO

Stephen Cimbala The National Interest

Has Brexit Really Harmed Britain’s Economy?

Sam McPhail Spectator

Iran Sticks to Its Guns

Tom O'Connor Newsweek

Trump’s Unwavering Resolve Against Iran

Michael Goodwin New York Post

Why Mexico’s Cartels Are So Hard to Defeat

David Mora Foreign Affairs

Former Cuban President Raul Castro Charged With Murder in U.S.

Reuters

Thursday, May 21

The Crumbling Pillars of Global Peace

Thant Myint-U Foreign Affairs

The U.N. Still Refuses to Police Itself

Danielle Pletka & Brett D. Schaefer AEI

How Xi and China Welcomed Trump and Putin

Sauer and Hawkins The Guardian

Nimitz Carrier Enters Caribbean Sea

Kim Hjelmgaard USA Today

Brexit Is Not the Cause of Britain’s Woes

James Piereson The New Criterion

The Rise of the Sub-National Power

Gabriel Elefteriu Brussels Signal

The U.S. Should Pay More Attention to the War in Mali

Swift & Wahba TNI