RealClearWorld Week of December 8, 2025 Archives

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Monday, December 8
Trump’s Power Paradox
Michael Kimmage Foreign Affairs
Team Trump Rightly Calls Out Europe’s Civilizational Suicide
New York Post
Ready or Not, Europe Is on Its Own
Georg Riekeles and Varg Folkman The Guardian
The Return of Hemispheric Nationalism
Leon Hadar Asia Times
U.S. Enters a New Era of Interventions in Latin America
Macarena Vidal Liy El Pais
Trump's Venezuela Punitive Expedition
Austin Bay Creators
Dealing With Maduro Is No Distraction. It’s a Necessity.
Mike Watson WFB
Ukraine’s Stolen Children Cry Out for Help. Will We Listen?
Patrick Desbois RCW
How Ukraine’s Corruption Scandal Is a Win
Kristina Berdynskykh The Atlantic
Michael McFaul Advances Liberal Imperialism
John Weeks American Conservative
Israel and Qatar Hold Secret Meeting in NY To Rebuild Ties
Barak Ravid Axios
The Collapse of al-Assad’s Syria, One Year On
Alessandro Bruno Geopolitical Monitor
Iran’s Axis of Resistance Is Crumbling
Neville Teller Jerusalem Post
U.S. Opportunity in Armenia
Julian Setian Newsweek
EU’s Crackdown on X Shows Desperation
Rafael Pinto Borges Brussels Signal


Tuesday, December 9
National Security Strategy: Pragmatic Without Pragmatism
Emily Harding CSIS
Trump Thrashes European Leaders
Alexander Burns Politico
Trump’s Tough Love for Europe
Rod Dreher The European Conservative
Europe Needs A New Union
Dalibor Rohac Substack
Why Trump Seeks a Swift End to the Ukraine War
Eldar Mamedov TAC
The U.S. Must Beware the Deepening China-Russia Axis
David Kirichenko CEPA
The Beijing Data Blackout Raising Alarm Bells
Hans van Leeuwen The Telegraph
You Don’t Beat China by Letting Big Tech Run Wild
Autumn Dorsey RealClearWorld
China Is Overplaying Its Hand on Rare Earth Materials
Dezenski and Swift The Hill
Trump’s ‘Monroe Doctrine 2.0’ Misreads Latin America
Jorge Heine Res. Statecraft
China Is Watching Trump’s Venezuela Campaign Closely
Tom Harper Asia Times
How Trains, Tunnels Could Link Israel and Saudi Arabia
Ariel Harkham JPost
Saudi-UAE Tensions Rise in Yemen
Tom O'Connor Newsweek
Lingering Challenges in the New Syria
Alexander Langlois The National Interest
Yes, Blowing Shit Up Is How We Build Things
Madeline Hart Pirate Wires


Wednesday, December 10
The Time to End the War in Ukraine Is Now
Thomas Graham Foreign Affairs
Russia’s War Economy Is in Crisis
Reuben Johnson National Security Journal
Why Many Underestimated Russia’s Invasion Risk
Aybars Tuncdogan WOTR
Europe’s Unending Tragedy
Srdja Trifkovic Chronicles
Here’s How Europe Can Fight Back Against Trump
Paul Taylor The Guardian
Trump Admin Plans for a Post-Maduro Venezuela
Kylie Atwood et al. CNN
Toppling Maduro Could Trigger Another Forever War
Joseph Bouchard RCW
What Venezuelans Really Want
Ariana Aspuru Vox
U.S. Universities Are Aiding Chinese Repression
Ian Williams The Spectator
Is China Planning a Russian Land Grab?
Micah McCartney Newsweek
Can the West Bump Russia Out of Central Asia?
Giorgio Cafiero The National Interest
Trump’s Backing Splits European Far Right
Nöstlinger & Goury-Laffont Politico EU
Britain Is Facing a Crisis of State Legitimacy
Chris Bayliss The Critic
The Neocons Were Right
David Brooks The Atlantic
The Future of the U.S. Institute of Peace
Reagan Reese The Daily Caller


Thursday, December 11
The Cost of Postponing the 2025 Summit of the Americas
Fauriol & Speck CSIS
The Strategy and Costs of Boat Strikes
Elaine McCusker American Enterprise Institute
Shadow Fleet on Edge After U.S. Seizes Tanker
Josh Owens Oil Price
A Free Venezuela Elevates U.S. Energy Security
Saeed Ghasseminejad RealClearWorld
How Trump Changed America
John J. Waters & Adam Ellwanger RealClearHistory
America’s Great Enemy Isn’t China or Russia Anymore
Andrew Latham NSJ
It’s Official: Trump Wants a Weaker European Union
Ian Bremmer GZero Media
Trump Calls Out Europe
Victor Davis Hanson The Daily Signal
The West Can No Longer Ignore Russian Advances
Joe Varner RealClearWorld
Turkey’s Second Act
Ekrem Imamoglu Foreign Affairs
Israel—It's Complicated
William Deresiewicz Substack
Trump’s ‘Defeat’ of Hamas Is a Shallow Peace
Louis René Beres Jerusalem Post
German Nationalism Exposes Washington’s Delusions
Leon Hadar TAC
Claudia Sheinbaum: Trump Whisperer
Edwin Ackerman UnHerd
Why Sudan Won’t Become Another Afghanistan
Eric Alter The National Interest


Friday, December 12
A New, Intense Phase Against Maduro
Macarena Vidal Liy El Pais
‘America First’ Starts in Our Own Hemisphere
Melissa Ford The Hill
When Will U.S. Escalation in Venezuela Hit Its Limit?
Tom Rogan UnHerd
Trump Embraces Great Power Cooperation
Dave Lawler & Zachary Basu Axios
America and China Are the World’s Only Great Powers
Jennifer Lind Foreign Affairs
Why Russia is So Resilient
Irina Busygina and Mikhail Filippov CEPA
Europe Is Betraying Ukraine
Daniel DePetris The Telegraph
Eastern Flank Security Requires Agile American Support
Gabriella Calder RCD
How Qatar Can Help Lebanon
David Daoud & Natalie Ecanow RealClearWorld
Israel’s Global Standing Slowly Recovers
Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post
Iran’s Water Crisis
Romaniuk Rózsa & Csicsmann Geopolitical Monitor
Wave of Gen-Z Unrest Fells Its First European Government
Georgi Kantchev WSJ
China Commission Urges Action on Transnational Repression
Susan Crabtree RCP
China’s 2026 Stimulus Plan & Economic Reform
William Pesek Asia Times
‘Garbage Time’ for China’s ‘Last Generation’
Gordon Chang Washington Examiner
Saturday, December 13
The NSS Is the Strategy We Have Waited For
Juan P. Villasmil American Conservative
What Trump’s National Security Strategy Missed
Henry Sokolski The National Interest
Europe’s Center Is Barely Holding
Tim Ross Politico EU
A Freer, Stronger, Sovereign Europe Is Good for the West
Paul McCarthy RCW
As Europe Steps Back, Asia Steps Up
Mike Watson Washington Free Beacon
Trump’s New Strategy Hands China Breathing Space
Imran Khalid Asia Times
Tariffs Are Working To Weaken China’s Unfair Trade
Nicholas Phillips New York Post
The Global Shadow Economy
Joshua Keating Vox
Trump and Venezuela: A Return To Seeking Regime Change
The Guardian
The Struggle for Venezuela
Alejandro A. Chafuen Law & Liberty
Mexico’s Welcome Tariff Action Against China
Washington Examiner
Why Iranians Aren’t Rising — Yet
Masoud Zamani RealClearWorld
UAE-Backed Forces Seize South Yemen Oil Belt
James Genn Jerusalem Post
The F-35 Turkey Gamble
Kris Osborn National Security Journal
Resuming Nuclear Testing Is a Dangerous Gamble
Thomas Cavanna RealClearWorld
Wikipedia Accused of Anti-Israel Bias
Aaron Bandler Jewish News Syndicate
America Needs Free Speech. RealClear Needs You.
David DesRosiers RCP


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