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<title><![CDATA[Ted Galen Carpenter - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/18020.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ted Galen Carpenter]]></description><category domain="18020">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Client Tails Wag the U.S. Dog]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/client-tails-wag-the-u-s-dog/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most American allies are security dependents that bring big risks and few benefits.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[West&rsquo;s Love Affair With Zelensky Knows No Bounds]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-dangerous-proposal/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The foreign policy establishment's love affair with Zelensky knows no bounds.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Another Episode of Journalistic Misconduct]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/bombing-journalistic-integrity/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Media coverage of the Nord Stream sabotage has been another episode of journalistic misconduct.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bluffing Never a Good Policy For a Great Power]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/what-the-u-s-owes-its-security-clients/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[U.S. leaders habitually emphasize that their country is dedicated to the security of Washington'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s growing menagerie of allies and clients. Whether deliberately or not, those officials foster the impression that the United States is even prepared to use force if another power...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Media Mangled the Russian Bounty Story]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-media-mangled-%E2%80%98russian-invasion%E2%80%99-trump-administration-164741</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The willingness of the press to circulate any account that puts Russia in a bad light has not diminished with the collapse of the Russia-Trump collusion narrative.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obama's Good 'Intentions' Destroyed Libya]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/how-barack-obamas-good-intentions-destroyed-libya-126441</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The observation that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions is especially true with respect to foreign military interventions.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' It is well past time for the architects of such debacles to accept responsibility for their awful handiwork.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Liberals Overlook the Trump-Kim Summit Positives]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/why-the-left-overlooks-the-trump-kim-summit-positives-26369</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The notion that the many entrenched quarrels between Washington and Pyongyang could be resolved at one summit meeting is inherently unrealistic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Needs to Get Back to the Basics in Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/america-needs-get-back-the-basics-foreign-policy-24642</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The problem of America's strategic overextension is getting worse, not better.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Democrats Obsessed With Russia?]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/why-democrats-are-obsessed-russia-24450</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Progressives have wildly exaggerated the supposed Russian threat to America's security and domestic liberty.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Libya: The Forgotten Reason N. Korea Wants Nukes]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/libya-the-forgotten-reason-north-korea-desperately-wants-23129</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Although all previous revolts had fizzled, extensive Western military involvement produced a very different result this time. The insurgents not only overthrew Qaddafi, they captured, tortured and executed him in an especially grisly fashion. Washington'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s response was astonishingly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Anti-Russia Inquisition Intensifies]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-anti-russia-inquisition-intensifies-20553</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Resurgent anti-Russia hysteria has broader, ominous implications for U.S. foreign policy and the health of political discourse in the United States.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Can Fix the Defects in U.S. Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/trump-can-fix-the-defects-us-foreign-policy-19204</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In administration after administration over the decades, U.S. foreign policy has habitually exhibited several of the same deficiencies. Although those defects and blind spots were evident throughout the Cold War, they have become more noticeable and worrisome since the end of that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. NATO Policy Fails to Be Relevant &amp; Prudent]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/it-time-america-quit-nato-15615</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NATO will celebrate its sixty-seventh anniversary in April. Instead of being an occasion for the usual expression of mind-numbing clich'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';'s about the alliance'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s enduring importance both to U.S. security and world peace, it should become an opportunity for a long overdue assessment...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Geopolitical Costs of Alienating Russia]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2015/04/25/alienating_russia_how_washingtons_middle_east_policy_may_suffer_107888.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Biggest Strategic Mistake]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/washingtons-biggest-strategic-mistake-10274</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eagle in a China Shop]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/26/eagle_in_a_china_shop_119390.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One pervasive, troublesome feature of U.S. foreign policy is the tendency to view all countries as more or less coherent national entities. American officials and opinion leaders are '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'map centric.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' If they look at a map and see an area bounded by solid lines with a large star...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Must Live Up to Neutrality Pledge in East Asia]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/23/us_must_live_up_to_neutrality_pledge_in_east_asia_119346.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Washington must exercise great care or the United States could become entangled in an assortment of volatile territorial disputes in East Asia. Recently, the most prominent and potentially dangerous dispute has been between China and Japan over the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The U.S. Military Is Armed, Overbearing and Dangerous]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/03/armed_overbearing_and_dangerous_118249.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[War planes are parked on the deck of the American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, in Marseille harbor, southern France, Friday, March 8, 2013. US aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower departed from Norfolk, Virginia, USA on Feb 21 and stopped in Marseille,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[South Korea's Growing Nuclear Flirtation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/25/south_koreas_growing_nuclear_flirtation_118132.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During Secretary of State John Kerry'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s recent trip to East Asia, Chinese and U.S. officials reiterated their strong commitment to a non-nuclear Korean Peninsula.North Korea is clearly the principal threat to that goal, since Pyongyang has already conducted three nuclear tests, including...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On North Korea, Keep Calm and Carry On]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/12/on_north_korea_keep_calm_and_carry_on_117914.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[North Korea has caused more nervousness than usual in the international community in recent weeks. American pundits and political figures have a serious case of the jitters. There is talk by some hawks that the United States needs to consider a show of force.
But cooler heads need to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DPRK Is the World's Responsibility, Not Just China's]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/29/dprk_is_the_worlds_responsibility_not_just_chinas_117720.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The satellite launch and subsequent nuclear test by the Democratic People'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Republic of Korea have greatly increased the level of concern in the United States and its East Asian allies. A frequent response is to demand that China rein in its troublesome ally. There is a growing view...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Washington Encourages Nuclear Proliferation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/19/how_washington_encourages_nuclear_proliferation_117499.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The current top priority for U.S. foreign policy is to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'or even acquiring the capability to build such weapons. That goal reflects the general U.S. policy, in place for more than six decades, of combating nuclear proliferation. U.S. leaders...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Taiwan Challenges Its Neighbors]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/04/taiwan_challenges_its_neighbors_117254.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The territorial disputes between China and its Southeast Asian neighbors over islands in the South China Sea have received considerable attention from an anxious international community. There has been even more global angst about the flare up of tensions between China and Japan over the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case Against Increased North Korea Sanctions]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/22/the_case_against_increased_north_korea_sanctions_117123.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[North Korea'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s latest nuclear test is causing the usual consternation in the international community. The European Union has strengthened economic sanctions against Pyongyang, and the United States and its East Asian allies are calling for a similar response. That is both futile and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Security Strategy is Clueless]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=23448</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most striking feature about President Obama's new National Security Strategy (NSS) document is that there is very little new in it. True, the tone of the NSS is rather different from the Bush administration's implied preference for unilateralism, but even that change merely takes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bad Neighbors]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/bad_neighbors.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the carnage from the drug violence in Mexico mounts and is finally causing political leaders and the media in the United States to pay attention, Mexico's own leaders exhibit ever greater delusional tendencies about the problem. The most glaring example was Mexican Attorney General...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Legislative Funeral]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/obamas_legislative_funeral.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Galen Carpenter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lord Salisbury, who served as British foreign secretary in the late 1800s, observed that "the commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies." As Barack Obama enters the White House, several venerable U.S. policies reek of decay. Three policies are especially in...]]></description>
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