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<title><![CDATA[Anne Applebaum - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14746.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Anne Applebaum]]></description><category domain="14746">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mostly young, mostly male Moroccans crawling onto beaches, climbing hills, scaling walls, jumping over fences, surging past police in order to get into Europe: The photographs and videos that emerged from Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, on July 29 and 30 looked very much like...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Will Benefit From Russia-Ukraine Peace Proposal?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-murky-plan-that-ensures-a-future-war/ar-AA1QWmSM</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 28-point peace plan that the United States and Russia want to impose on Ukraine and Europe is misnamed. It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Sounds Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/why-does-trump-sound-like-hitler-stalin-and-mussolini/ar-AA1suEPI</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rhetoric has a history. The words democracy and tyranny were debated in ancient Greece; the phrase separation of powers became important in the 17th and 18th centuries.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Danger of Politicizing 'Freedom']]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-danger-of-politicizing-freedom/ar-AA1rGP4V?cvid=610d0a9ca0c54cdcb72a3ff776bc5497&amp;ei=9</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Freedom'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in the United States is a word that has had more than one meaning. It has meant freedom for some people and the repression of others. In a democracy,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' freedom'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' also means the right to take part in politics. So how can that freedom best be secured?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Labour Defeated Populism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-labour-defeated-populism/ar-BB1ptAcg</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t use'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' emotional slogans. They tried not to make promises they can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t keep. They didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have a plan you can sum up in a sentence, or a vision whose essence can be transmitted in a video clip. They were careful not to offer too many details about anything.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time for Dems To Roll the Dice]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/time-to-roll-the-dice/ar-BB1pm72T</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[November'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s election has very high stakes: the nature and, indeed, the continued existence of the American republic, at least in the form that we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve known it for the past century. Around the world, the United States under a second Trump presidency would cease to be seen as a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Readers Don't Trust Dirty Tricks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/world/readers-don-t-trust-dirty-tricks/ar-BB1oK9kA</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In March of 2002, Milly Dowler, age 13, left her home in Walton-on-Thames for the last time. After she disappeared, her parents called the police. A search began. Blanket news coverage followed. In those days, probably a dozen British tabloids and half a dozen higher-brow broadsheets all...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Congress Really Going To Abandon Ukraine Now?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/is-congress-really-going-to-abandon-ukraine-now/ar-BB1hlmOz</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As I write this I am in Warsaw, 170 miles from Poland'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s border with Ukraine. The front line, where Ukrainians are right now fighting and dying, is another 450 miles beyond that. Not so far, in other words. A long day'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s drive. I am well within range of Russian missiles, the kind...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Must Defeat Russia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-west-must-defeat-russia/ar-AA1jHUxg</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They planned to take Kyiv in three days, the rest of Ukraine in six weeks.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin Is Caught in His Own Trap]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/putin-is-caught-in-his-own-trap/ar-AA1d0j3Y</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Wagner Group mercenaries marched 800 kilometers across Russia, shot down planes and helicopters, took over a regional military command, provoked a panic in Moscow'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'troops dug trenches, the mayor told everyone to stay home'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and then stood down.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The True Purpose of Ukraine's Counteroffensive]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-true-purpose-of-ukraine-s-counteroffensive/ar-AA1cipmB</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kyiv needs to show Russians that the war is not worth fighting.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for the Total Liberation of Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-case-for-the-total-liberation-of-ukraine/ar-AA1aAbLf</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Russia must be expelled from all of Ukraine's territory'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'including Crimea.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Zelensky Makes Pragmatic Case for More U.S. Support]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/zelensky-has-an-answer-for-desantis/ar-AA18QYf4</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In an interview, the Ukrainian president makes a pragmatic case for continued American support.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Hope vs. Putin's Lies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-s-hope-vs-putin-s-lies/ar-AA17M8n5</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. president's optimism about Ukraine creates the expectation that everything is possible'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and commits him to a Ukrainian victory.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Went to Ukraine Because There's No Going Back]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-went-to-kyiv-because-there-s-no-going-back/ar-AA17IITs</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president's surprise visit sent a message to Moscow'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and to European leaders.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Set an Example for the Rioters in Brazil]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/americans-set-an-example-for-the-rioters-in-brazil/ar-AA167hHb</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jair Bolsonaro's supporters shoed that anti-democratic revolutions can be contagious too.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Russian Empire Must Die]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-russian-empire-must-die/ar-AA145Jef</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-russian-empire-must-die/ar-AA145Jef]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During the quarter century of its formal existence, the Moscow School of Civic Education did not have a campus, a syllabus, or professors. The school instead ran seminars for politicians and journalists, led by other politicians and journalists, from Russia and around the world. It...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fear of Nuclear War Has Warped Our Ukraine Strategy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/fear-of-nuclear-war-has-warped-the-wests-ukraine-strategy/ar-AA13Q9IG</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most of the time, when heads of state talk about nuclear war, they speak in careful, measured tones, acknowledging the gravity of the nuclear taboo and the consequences of breaking it. The Russian president takes a different approach. Speaking at his annual foreign-policy conference a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Germany Is Arguing With Itself Over Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/germany-is-arguing-with-itself-over-ukraine/ar-AA13bWTG</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fight over which weapons to give Ukraine is really a disagreement about Germany.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin's Newest Annexation Is Dire for Russia Too]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-e2-80-99s-newest-annexation-is-dire-for-russia-too/ar-AA12rIhF</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His baldly illegitimate claim to four Ukrainian provinces shows contempt for the global order'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and his own subjects.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gorbachev Never Realized What He Set in Motion]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/gorbachev-never-realized-what-he-set-in-motion/ar-AA11jrLH</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Almost nobody has ever had such a profound impact on an era, while understanding so little about it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Other Ukrainian Army]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-other-ukrainian-army/ar-AA10vTiJ</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Imperiled by Russian invaders, private citizens are stepping forward to do what Ukraine's government cannot.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boris Johnson&rsquo;s Fake Populism Reaches Its End]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/boris-johnson-s-fake-populism-reaches-its-logical-end/ar-AAZkg2h</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A prime minister's absurd posturing led to his undoing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and will keep haunting his country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If January 6 Hearings Don't Change Minds, Nothing Will]]></title>
							<link>https://www.anneapplebaum.com/2022/06/29/if-the-january-6-hearings-dont-change-minds-nothing-will/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.anneapplebaum.com/2022/06/29/if-the-january-6-hearings-dont-change-minds-nothing-will/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The committee is laying out the facts in a way optimally designed to cultivate trust.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The War Won't End Until Putin Loses]]></title>
							<link>https://www.anneapplebaum.com/2022/05/23/defeating-putin-is-the-only-route-to-peace-in-ukraine/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.anneapplebaum.com/2022/05/23/defeating-putin-is-the-only-route-to-peace-in-ukraine/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Offering the Russian president a face-saving compromise will only enable future aggression.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[World War II Is All That Putin Has Left]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/world-war-ii-is-all-that-putin-has-left/ar-AAX9UzZ</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The regime offers Russians little more than selective memories of Soviet-era military triumph.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberation Without Victory in Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/liberation-without-victory/ar-AAWfXi9</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/liberation-without-victory/ar-AAWfXi9]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a wide-ranging conversation at his compound in Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tells The Atlantic what Ukraine needs to survive'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and describes the price it has paid.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ukraine Must Win]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-must-win/ar-AAVmP2f</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-must-win/ar-AAVmP2f]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ukrainians and the world's democratic powers must work toward the only acceptable endgame.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Needs a Better Plan To Fight Autocracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-u-s-needs-a-new-strategy-toward-the-autocratic-world/ar-AAV5jkq</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By enabling Putin and other global kleptocrats, the West undermined democracy. It's time to change tactics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the West's Diplomacy With Russia Keeps Failing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-the-west-e2-80-99s-diplomacy-with-russia-keeps-failing/ar-AATMz9x?ocid=uxbndlbing</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Anne Applebaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A profound failure of the Western imagination has brought Europe to the brink of war.]]></description>
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