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<title><![CDATA[Dimitri Simes - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/25381.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Dimitri Simes]]></description><category domain="25381">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Russia Draws Closer to China]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/russia-draws-closer-to-china/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dimitri Simes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Ukraine war gives a boost to Russia's long-planned pivot to the East.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dangerous Delusions About Russia]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/delusions-about-russia-72321</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dimitri Simes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Russia is a dangerous adversary. But treating it as an outright enemy could result in a self-fulfilling prophecy, triggering mortal threats to its neighbors which otherwise may not be in the cards.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Lashes Out at Israel and Russia, But Hits U.S. Too]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/spiteful-obama-lashes-out-netanyahu-putin-trump-hits-america-18916</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dimitri Simes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One need not admire Benjamin Netanyahu or Vladimir Putin or, for that matter, approve of Israeli or Russian conduct, to see Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recent efforts to punish the two states for what they really are. Indeed, Mr. Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s efforts seem directed more at his successor than at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Blueprint to Fix Relations With Russia]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/blueprint-donald-trump-fix-relations-russia-18776?page=show</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dimitri Simes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THE TWO Chinese characters that make up the word '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'crisis'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' can be interpreted as meaning both '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'danger'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'opportunity.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Russia today offers your administration not only a serious challenge but a significant opportunity. Russia is no longer the Evil Empire...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Foreign Policy by Bumper Sticker]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/america%E2%80%99s-disturbing-foreign-policy-debate-13609</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dimitri Simes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The world today is quite different from the one of thirty years ago, when The National Interest published its first issue. Since then, immensely important changes, both at home and abroad, have taken place that continue to confound American political elites.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Russia and America: Stumbling to War]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/russia-america-stumbling-war-12662</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dimitri Simes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[AFTER THE Soviet Union collapsed, Richard Nixon observed that the United States had won the Cold War, but had not yet won the peace. Since then, three American presidents'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'representing both political parties'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'have not yet accomplished that task. On the contrary, peace seems...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Is Driving Russia and China Together]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-obama-driving-russia-china-together-10735</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dimitri Simes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[PRESIDENT BARACK Obama likes to say that America and the world have progressed beyond the unpleasantness of the nineteenth century and, for that matter, much of the rest of human history. He could not be more wrong. And as a result, he is well on the way to repeating some of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[White House's Flailing Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/the-winner-ukraine-ischina-10034</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dimitri Simes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here we go again. The Obama administration, confronted with a foreign-policy crisis, is flailing. This time it isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t Syria, but Ukraine.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Foreign Policy: The Truth Isn't Pretty]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/let-romney-be-romney-7644</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dimitri Simes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Governor Mitt Romney has a real opportunity to win Monday night's foreign-policy debate with President Barack Obama. But to prevail, he will need to disregard the suggestions of some of his neoconservative foreign-policy advisers, who are out of touch not only with international...]]></description>
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