RealClearWorld Week of June 29, 2026 Archives

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Monday, June 29

The End of the Rules-Based Illusion

James Thorne RealClearPolitics

Heartland vs. Rimland

Michael Beckley and Hal Brands Foreign Affairs

A Critical Moment for Russia

George Friedman Geopolitical Futures

Iran War Exposed the Weakness of the U.S.

Arman Mahmoudian The National Interest

What the Iran War Accomplished

Marc A. Thiessen Washington Post

Is Libya Quietly Becoming the Biggest Oil Prize?

Simon Watkins Oil Price

Europe’s Resistance to AC Is Driving It Insane

Noah Smith Substack

Tuesday, June 30

Investors Pick America Over Europe

Sven R. Larson The European Conservative

Paris & Berlin Push To Make EU Foreign Policy Great

Barigazzi & Caulcutt Politico EU

Ukraine’s Strike Undercuts Putin’s Claims of Steady Progress

Pavel K. Baev EDM

Iran’s Main Street Will Have To Wait

Georgi Kantchev & Henna Moussavi WSJ

Kurdish Rebels Clash With IRGC

Seth Frantzman Jerusalem Post

China Targets Roman Catholics, Vatican is Silent

Gordon Chang The Hill

Governments Still Underestimate the Power of Sports

Rama Yade Atlantic Council

Wednesday, July 1

The Informal Alignment of U.S. Adversaries

Thomas Wright Foreign Affairs

Time for American Independence From Europe

Michael Toth Washington Examiner

In Kyiv, Even Sleep Is a Battlefield

Mitzi Perdue RealClearWorld

Iran’s ‘Axis of Resistance’ in a Post-War Era

Mohammad Mansour Aljazeera

Why Is Saudi Arabia Appeasing Iran?

Hussain Abdul-Hussain The National Interest

Iraq’s Anti-Corruption Push Could Be a Turning Point

David Petraeus Wash. Post

U.S. Won’t Renew USMCA

Kevin Breuninger CNBC

Thursday, July 2

The End of Hamas

Jaser AbuMousa Foreign Affairs

Has the Strait of Hormuz Changed Forever?

Nightingale and Burkhardt Bloomberg

Establish a National Institute for the Study of Terrorism

Steven Stalinsky RCW

Putin’s Economy Is Running on Fumes

Geoffrey Smith Politico EU

Europe Lashes Out Against Prospect of Talking to Russia

Doug Bandow TAC

Will There Be Justice for Henry Nowak?

David Shipley Spectator

Allies or Adversaries? Troubling Signals From South Korea

James Pinkerton RCP