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<title><![CDATA[Eliot Cohen - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19497.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Eliot Cohen]]></description><category domain="19497">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Listen Closely to What Pete Hegseth Is Saying]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/listen-closely-to-what-hegseth-is-saying/ar-AA1z0DaO?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'After a long illness, the world as we know it has passed away,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' a European friend recently said. A slightly premature obituary, perhaps, but not by much. The world has changed in fundamental ways, of which the Trump administration is both symptom and cause. There is no greater...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Can&rsquo;t Escape the Laws of Political Gravity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-cant-escape-the-laws-of-political-gravity/ar-AA1xWrse?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sometimes politics resembles one of the weirder branches of modern physics or a fantasy version of biology. Time may seem to run backwards; solid things turn out to be insubstantial; black holes swallow up the light; the dead may walk the Earth, ghouls crawl out of cleft rocks,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ukraine Can Still Win]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/theory-victory-ukraine</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the right support and approach, Kyiv can still win.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Just Destroyed Putin's Last Hope]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-just-destroyed-putins-last-hope/ar-AA17IAOj</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The long-range missiles matter. So do the super-accurate artillery shells, the surface-to-air missiles, and the winter weather gear; the training in the English countryside or the muddy Grafenw'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¶').';'hr maneuver grounds; and the intelligence provided from the eyes in space and the ears on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Western Aid to Ukraine Is Still Not Enough]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/western-aid-to-ukraine-is-still-not-enough/ar-AA16qU4D</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Any result other than a victory for Kyiv will make the world a more dangerous place for all of us.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin's Regime Faces the Fate of His Kerch Strait Bridge]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putins-regime-faces-the-fate-of-his-kerch-strait-bridge/ar-AA12LDa0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The attack on the crucial link between Russia and Crimea matters less for its tactical significance and more for what it says about the course of the war.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Can't We Admit That Ukraine Is Winning?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/ukraine-is-winning-war-russia/627121/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The West has become too accustomed to thinking of its side as stymied, ineffective, or incompetent.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Must Do What Needs To Be Done To Save Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/america-s-hesitation-is-heartbreaking/ar-AAV1BXm</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'When you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re at war, you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re at war,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the saying goes, and if so, you have to accept the implications. So too in the present circumstance. The United States and its NATO allies are engaged in a proxy war with Russia. They are supplying thousands of munitions and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Strategy That Can Defeat Putin]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-strategy-that-can-defeat-putin/ar-AAUJVFT</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S.-led coalition of liberal-democratic states should pursue three objectives.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You Can't Serve Both Trump and America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/mattis-proved-you-cant-serve-both-trump-and-america/578902/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The departure of Jim Mattis is proof that you cannot have it all.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Brett Kavanaugh and the Collapse of Modern Conservatism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/republican-party-conservative/571747/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The conservative virtues remain real virtues, the conservative insights real insights, and the conservative temperament an indispensable internal gyro keeping a country stable and sane.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sooner or Later, Tyrants Are Always Abandoned by Followers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/the-end-of-trumps-reign/568480/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sooner or later, tyrants are always abandoned by their followers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Another Norm Falls Victim to Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/trumps-threat-to-pull-clearances-is-ignorantand-scary/566024/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Another norm falls victim to Trump as he turns the power of government against his critics]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Neither Precise Nor Proportionate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/neither-precise-nor-proportionate/558068/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Precise and proportionate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is how Secretary of Defense James Mattis described the recent shower of missiles that fell on three targets in Syria. Precise, possibly, although anyone who has dealt with them knows that smart weapons often do dumb things. But proportionate? On that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rex Tillerson Doesn't Understand America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/rex-tillerson-speaks/525567/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a speech given in the style of an executive delivering a pep talk to anxious employees, a substantial number of whom suspect the boss intends to declare them redundant. That is, of course, the actual situation. The diplomats and civil servants politely applauding were listening to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Told the Right to Work for Trump. Trying to Changed My Mind.]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am a national security Never-Trumper who, after the election, made the case that young conservatives should volunteer to serve in the new administration, warily, their undated letters of resignation ready. That advice, I have concluded, was wrong.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Really Bad Deal for America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/opinion/a-really-bad-deal-for-america.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald J. Trump can be seen as a talented demagogue, or as the manifestation of deep pathologies in the body politic, but he is also the bearer of ideas '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' crudely framed and sometimes incoherent, but ideas nonetheless. Nowhere is this more true than on foreign policy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' In the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Selfie-Taking, Hashtagging Teenage Administration]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304536104579556063385347826</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As American foreign policy continues its long string of failures'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'not a series of singles and doubles, as President Obama asserted in a recent news conference, but rather season upon season of fouls and strikes'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the question becomes: Why?Why does the Economist magazine put a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Must Take Charge of War or Get Out]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704853404575322800914018876.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gen. Stanley McChrystal is a hero - a selfless, fearless and inspiring soldier. He is also something of a military genius. In Iraq, as commander of the Joint Special Operations Command from 2003-2008, he created an extraordinary military operation.His command center'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'a vast open hall...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Too Many Slips on Foreign Policy]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the first year of President Barack Obama's foreign policy were a law firm in Charles Dickens's London, it would have a name like Bumble, Stumble and Skid. It began with apologies to the Muslim world that went nowhere, a doomed attempt to beat Israel into line, utopian pleas to abolish...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What is Obama's Strategy for Afghanistan?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/04/AR2009120402602.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Are Only Two Choices Left on Iran]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eliot Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unless you are a connoisseur of small pictures of bearded, brooding fanatical clerics there is not much reason to collect Iranian currency. But I kept one bill on my desk at the State Department because of its watermark'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'an atom superimposed on the part of that country that harbors...]]></description>
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