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<title><![CDATA[David Rothkopf - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19628.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Rothkopf]]></description><category domain="19628">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA['No Kings' Protests May Be Turning Point America Needs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-no-kings-protests-may-be-the-turning-point-we-desperately-need/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The estimated 9 million people who took to the streets across the U.S. on Saturday for the largest public protest in American history sent a message of hope.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Vote for Donald Trump Is a Vote for Vladimir Putin]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-vote-for-trump-is-a-vote-for-putin-and-a-world-in-danger/ar-BB1iJKfd?cvid=b485fb7fac8245b0c943cf1ed18b671a&amp;ei=33</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We are dramatically understating the threat Donald Trump and the MAGA movement pose to the security of the United States, Europe and the world.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Canceling University Presidents Won&rsquo;t End Antisemitism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/canceling-university-presidents-won-t-end-antisemitism/ar-AA1liTKz?cvid=888bfc76beb14a628af8d379471ec12c&amp;ei=8</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hate speech'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is a scourge. Combatting it is an important goal of any society. Speech that incites violence or creates a threatening environment cannot be tolerated within civilized communities or public or private institutions.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dutch Far-Right Takeover a Terrifying Shock for Europe]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/dutch-far-right-leader-geert-wilders-victory-a-terrifying-shock-for-europe</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Far-right extremist Geert Wilders' stunning victory in the Netherlands is a beam of hope for the worst of Europe's right-wing, and a jolt of fear for minorities and immigrants.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America in Much Better Shape Than You Probably Think]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/america-s-in-much-better-shape-at-home-and-abroad-than-you-probably-think/ar-AA1fYzyv?cvid=46fcc627eec64375b35188a0866599f4&amp;ei=5</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What if'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is actually going to be alright, after all?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[11 Wild Things That Could Happen in the 2024 Election]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/here-are-11-wild-things-that-could-happen-in-the-2024-election/ar-AA1fRg3g?cvid=8c6827b380074c4eabd40fc47f13c5d2&amp;ei=6</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Be skeptical of predictions about the outcome of the 2024 elections. I say this, because as someone who quite often is asked to make such predictions on TV or in columns like this one, I long ago came to realize there is every incentive for commentators to sound certain and very little...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Bidenomics Finally Defeated Reaganomics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/how-bidenomics-has-finally-defeated-reaganomics/ar-AA1aFJSg?ocid=Peregrine&amp;cvid=842e540d94d04a5bac8519c234ac3d93&amp;ei=7</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The last thing many of us expected when Joe Biden became president was that he would be a revolutionary. But just over two years into Biden's presidency, there is no doubt that he has done more to dramatically transform U.S. policy and thinking in more areas than any of his predecessors...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Macron &amp; Biden Have Same Problem: Getting Left to Vote]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/emmanuel-macron-and-joe-biden-have-same-problem-getting-the-left-to-vote/ar-AAWavuQ?li=BBnbfcL</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Emmanuel Macron once held hands with Donald Trump. I just don't see Joe Biden doing that. Macron is 44. Biden will be 80 in November. Macron, a former finance minister and the son of a physician and a professor of neurology, studied philosophy and worked as an investment banker. Biden...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[High Gas Prices Are Necessary to Defend Freedom]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnists/2022/03/10/record-gas-prices-cost-freedom/9438898002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. is working to punish Vladimir Putin with a ban on Russian oil. Americans need to be aware of the cost of defending freedom.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Massive Foreign Policy Reset]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-massive-biden-reset-you-probably-dont-even-know-is-happening/ar-AAPb94K</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States is in the midst of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the most significant strategic shift in its foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. Why is it a secret?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Admin's Afghan Critics Wrong in Almost Every Way]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/08/29/afghanistan-war-exit-joe-biden-critics-wrong/5639051001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We have no ongoing security interest in Afghanistan, and we don't send troops everywhere to protect women and human rights. We do that in other ways.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[MAGA Movement a Bigger Threat to America Than Taliban]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-maga-movements-a-bigger-threat-to-america-than-the-taliban/ar-AANLnBO</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fox News has run'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' an article'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' about the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'news'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' that last week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' I tweeted: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Taliban, all of them together, plus every Al Qaeda fighter in the world, do not pose the threat to the United States that Trump or Trumpist extremists do.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Infrastructure = Jobs, Growth, Better Lives for Millions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/08/10/senate-passes-infrastructure-bill-bipartisan-support/5539281001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From our earliest days, major investments in infrastructure and people sparked the growth spurts that have made us great. We're poised to do it again.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is Best on the World Stage Since H.W. Bush]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/06/20/joe-biden-donald-trump-contrast-china-russia-nato/7733369002</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump all came into office with little or no international affairs experience. And it showed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is Off to a Good Start De-Trumpifying America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2021/04/29/biden-off-to-fast-start-reversing-trump-damage-100-days-column/7383128002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For all Biden and his team have achieved, much work remains. Trump is out of office, but the dangers associated with him are not fully behind us.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time to Admit That the U.S. Is No Longer #1]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/were-number-one-the-us-is-more-like-number-19-these-days/ar-BB1eZkst</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From birth, we here in the US are raised to think of this as the greatest country in the world. Well, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time to think again. We no longer live up to our own hype by almost any metric.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Forget Unity, America Needs Biden &amp; Dems to Get Results]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/01/24/joe-biden-democrats-no-surrender-mcconnell-republicans-column/6680754002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's time to give Biden's 81 million voters a chance to be heard and Biden a chance to carry out the plans he ran on, even if he has to play hardball.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Has Learned From Mistakes of Past Presidents]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/11/24/bidens-national-security-his-team-and-what-he-has-learned-past-column/6399557002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not only does Biden have more foreign policy experience than many other presidents, the team he announced is made up of established veterans.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's National Greatness Myths Are Shattering]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/07/26/donald-trump-shatters-american-national-greatness-myths-column/5489389002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Live long enough and you can see the rise and fall of myths in real time.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' It does not take statues being pulled from their pedestals to reveal the fragility of the conjured history upon which so much of society depends.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' From the greatness of nations to the identities of each of and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump-Bolton Marriage Was Doomed From the Start]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-the-trump-bolton-marriage-was-doomed-from-the-start?ref=scroll</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump and Bolton both hate the international system, but the similarities end there. Trump likes tough talk'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but only talk. Bolton wanted a lot more than talk.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Wharton Revoke Trump's Economics Degree Now?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/can-wharton-revoke-trumps-economics-degree-now</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His ideas are dumb and destructive.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Lies and Corruption Disgrace Other Presidents]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/12/27/trump-corruption-disgraces-presidential-legacy-washington-lincoln-column/2376588002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is hard to imagine that there is a line from George Washington to Donald Trump, that we could have so squandered the legacies of past generations.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Really Shocking About White House Shouting Match]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/18/opinions/white-house-shouting-match-bolton-kelly-rothkopf/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[National security adviser John Bolton and White House chief of staff John Kelly got into a shouting match outside the Oval Office on Thursday, according to reports from CNN and Bloomberg. Profanities rang through the West Wing and staffers began to speculate as to which of the two...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Trumped-Up New Trade Deal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumped-up-nafta-potus-wins-a-few-modest-concessions-and-declares-victory?ref=home</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Will it help U.S. dairy farmers and some other workers? A bit, around the edges. But the enemy is technology, not Canada. His base won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t care, though.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Response to Russian Attacks 'Textbook Treason']]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-way-trump-and-the-gop-deal-with-russian-attacks-is-textbook-treason?ref=home</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is an extraordinary moment. It is without equal not only in American history but in modern history.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unreality Show in Singapore Was Bizarre and Dangerous]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-trump-kim-unreality-show-in-singapore-was-bizarre-and-is-dangerous?ref=home</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Singapore summit was a pre-cooked bromance based not on true love or respect, but on the need of both principals to be known and admired by audiences watching at home.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kim Wants a Donald Trump-John Bolton Breakup]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/opinions/kim-wants-a-donald-trump-john-bolton-breakup-rothkopf/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rather, the dividing line Kim is focused on is one he hopes to draw through a single building on the opposite side of the world, one that also happens to be located, like the border between the Koreas, on the 38th parallel: the White House. It would run, they hope, between President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who's Worse, Trump or Nixon?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rothkopf-watergate-trump-20180205-story.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rothkopf-watergate-trump-20180205-story.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We must hope the special counsel's investigation and the judiciary will successfully play the independent role intended for them. And we must recognize that our last best line of defense in this crisis is the American voter. Our ballots will determine whether the damage inflicted by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington Is Brain-Dead]]></title>
							<link>http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2014/12/28/Washington-is-brain-dead-The-dumbing-down-of-America-afflicts-our-nation-s-capital/stories/201412280034</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pushing Out Hagel Not Shake-Up Obama Needs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/24/opinion/rothkopf-hagel-ouster/index.html?hpt=op_t1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rothkopf</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Few will long lament the departure of Chuck Hagel as defense secretary. He was a weak choice for the job, seen as a comfortable one for President Barack Obama, a former senator he knew who was unlikely to ruffle feathers or be as challenging to work with as his stronger predecessors,...]]></description>
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