RealClearWorld Week of August 7, 2023 Archives

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Monday, August 7
An Enduring Coalition to Protect Ukraine
Rajan Menon Foreign Affairs
Get Ready, Europe: The U.S. Will Not Be Around Forever
Edward Lucas CEPA
Will the U.S. Learn Anything From Its Foreign Adventures?
Peter Van Buren TAC
Why There Will Be No Negotiating With Putin
Konstantin Sonin The Moscow Times
Is China’s Economy Turning Japanese?
George Magnus NewStatesman
The West’s De-Risking Strategy Towards China Will Fail
Chris Miller The Economist
The New ‘Tanker War’ in the Persian Gulf
Paul Pillar Responsible Statecraft
Washington’s Security-Focused Sahel Policy Is Collapsing.
Emily Milliken TNI
A Somber Anniversary in Afghanistan
Anne Richard The Messenger
“Oppenheimer” Ignites Controversy in Japan
Kira Wang Axios
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Correcting the Record
Adam Lowther et. al. RCDefense
The Upsides of Empire
Douglas Murray Washington Free Beacon


Tuesday, August 8
The State of the War in Ukraine
George Friedman Geopolitical Futures
Ukraine’s Day of Reckoning Is Not Far Off
Stephen Bryen Asia Times
Russia’s Captive Nations Cry for Freedom
Ben Solis AMAC
Washington Has No Interest in Pursuing Peace in Ukraine
Dominick Sansone TNI
Ukraine Might be Slowly Winning the Global South
Stefan Wolff Globely News
Niger and the Collapse of France’s Empire
Thomas Fazi UnHerd
China’s Long Term ‘Advantages’ Over the U.S.
Francesco Sisci Asia Times
Japan’s Military Is Getting Ready To Take on a Rising China
James Holmes 1945
Why Is U.S. Sending 3,000 Troops to the Persian Gulf?
Jared Szuba Al-Monitor
The Roots of Instability in the Middle East
Robert Kaplan Foreign Affairs
Why Brazil Is a Major Holdout Against BRICS Expansion
Andre Pagliarini RS
Europe’s Message to Workers: Retrain or Fall Behind
Pieter Haeck Politico EU
The Forgotten Parties in the Korean War
Clint Work The Diplomat


Wednesday, August 9
Ukraine’s Slow-Moving Counteroffensive
Hlib Parfonov Eurasia Daily Monitor
Putin’s Age of Chaos
Tatiana Stanovaya Foreign Affairs
The Rise of an Authoritarian Order in the Middle East
Hamidreza Azizi TNI
Iran Warns of More Ship Seizures in Defiance of U.S.
Correspondent Al-Monitor
U.S. Should Look South, Not Far East, on Trade Pacts
Shannon K. O'Neil CFR
U.S. Plays It Safe While China Expands in Latin America
Juan Villasmil RCW
China Flirts With Deflation. Why Is That a Bad Thing?
Gabrielle Debinski GZero Media
Puigdemont Sets High Price To Break Spanish Vote Impasse
Politico EU
The Tories Are Heading for Electoral Evisceration
John Oxley The Spectator
Will the Real Keir Starmer Please Stand Up?
Patrick O'Flynn Spiked
The Protests Inside Iran’s Girls’ Schools
Azadeh Moaveni New Yorker
Why the Wagner Group Won’t Leave Africa
John Lechner Foreign Policy
Inside the Newest Conflict in Somalia
James Barnett Hudson Institute


Thursday, August 10
China May No Longer Be the Engine of Growth
Peter Hannam The Guardian
The West and China Share the Same Fate
N.S. Lyons UnHerd
Kremlin’s Diplomatic Dilemma
Pyotr Kozlov The Moscow Times
The Myth of a Strong Postwar Ukraine
George Beebe Responsible Statecraft
The Old Rules of Geopolitics Return to the Persian Gulf
Andrew Latham The Hill
Normalizing Saudi-Israeli Relations Is in America’s Interest
Leon Hadar TNI
Israel-Saudi Peace May End Palestinian Statehood
Douglas Bloomfield JPost
Paraguay Attempts To Be an Island of Stability in Latin America
Greg Ross RCW
The Border Crisis That Wasn’t
Andrew Selee Foreign Affairs
Border Crisis Creates National Security Threat
Casey Harper The Center Square
Pakistani Democracy Is Dead
Kunwar Khuldune Shahid UnHerd
EU Green Deal’s Weak Point, Exposed
Charlie Cooper Politico EU
How To Fix the Energy Crisis
Ralph Schoellhammer Spiked


Friday, August 11
China Has Created a New Normal in the Taiwan Strait
The Diplomat
Putin’s Crumbling Ukraine Narrative
Jonathan Sweet & Mark Toth The Messenger
China’s Long-Term Strategy in the Middle East
David Goldman Asia Times
Many Arms and Little Influence in the Middle East
Cohen & Hoffman WOTR
U.S., Iraq Defense Chiefs Discuss Post-IS Strategy
Jared Szuba Al-Monitor
The Israeli-Saudi Deal Had Better Be a Good One
Andrew Exum The Atlantic
The Drug War in El Salvador: A Success Story?
Jonathan Alpeyrie Geopolitical Monitor
Assassinated Ecuadorian Candidate Stood up To Crime
Ronny Rojas NBC News
Migrants and the Mediterranean
Ambassador Mark Green Wilson Center
Did the Niger Coup Just Succeed?
Atlantic Council
It’s Hard Times for Those Seeking Global Denuclearization
Stephen Blank The Hill
Russia Shoots for the Moon as Space Race Against U.S. Heats Up
Politico EU
Saturday, August 12
U.S. Push for a Saudi-Israel Deal Is All About China
Hal Brands Bloomberg
A Security Pact With Saudi Arabia Would Be a Disaster for U.S.
Daniel Larison RS
Saudi’s MBS Wants More Than Peace at His Ukraine Summit
Nic Robertson CNN
Ukrainian Forces Make Tactically Significant Advances
Institute for the Study of War
Russia & China Send a Message in N. American Waters
James Holmes Messenger
China Driving Marcos Deeper Into American Arms
Richard Javad Heydarian AT
What Should America Do if China Invades Taiwan?
Daniel Davis 19FortyFive
Why China’s Era of High Growth Is Over
Ian Bremmer GZero Media
The Coup in Niger Threatens American Interests
Francois Baird The National Interest
Netanyahu Takes Victory Lap Over Foreign Invites
Rina Bassist Al-Monitor
Biden Needs To Have a Tough Talk With Israel’s Netanyahu
Amos Guiora The Hill
Biden Pays $6 Billion Ransom Payment to Iran
Morgan Ortagus Killbox
Palestinian Unity Is a Myth
Sarah Stern Jerusalem Post
Pakistan’s Military Won’t Loosen Its Grip
Husain Haqqani Foreign Policy
Wagner Group Licks its Wounds in Belarus
Faulkner Clarke & Parens FPRI


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