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							<title><![CDATA[Perils of a Power Vacuum in Iran]]></title>
							<link>https://www.chinausfocus.com/peace-security/the-perils-of-a-power-vacuum-in-iran</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Holmes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Critics of the attack on Iran by the United States and Israel point out that US President Donald Trump has no plan for what comes next. And they are not wrong: when Trump boasts that he can resolve wars in a single day, he merely exposes the limits of his attention span. But the real...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democracy Is Rigged. Republicans Are the Beneficiaries]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/26/democracy-rigged-trump-biden</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Holmes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conservatives relish the irony of Trump's audacious reversal of the truth around rigging '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' because it distracts attention from their minority rule]]></description>
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