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							<title><![CDATA[DeSantis Was Right on Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/03/22/desantis_was_right_on_ukraine_149012.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA["While the U.S. has many vital national interests ... becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them."
So Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis volunteered in response to a questionnaire that Fox News reporters posed to declared and potential...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin's 'Winter War' on Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/11/22/putins_winter_war_on_ukraine_148501.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Winter has often proven an indispensable ally of Mother Russia.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
The impending winter of 1812-13 forced Napoleon's withdrawal from Moscow, a retreat from which his Grande Armee never recovered.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
The winter of 1941-42 sealed the ultimate fate of the invading armies of Adolf Hitler's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats, Not 'Democracy,' at Risk Today]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/11/08/democrats_not_democracy_at_risk_today_148440.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Make no mistake -- democracy is on the ballot for us all."
So declaiming in his Union Station speech to the nation on the real stakes in the 2022 elections, President Joe Biden, who was immediately echoed by Barack Obama, painted himself and his party into a corner.
For if Trump...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where US and Ukrainian War Aims Collide]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/10/18/where_us_and_ukrainian_war_aims_collide_148331.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine, Crimea and the Donbas are national territories whose retrieval justifies all-out war to expel the invading armies of Vladimir Putin's Russia.
Yet, who controls Crimea and the Donbas has, in the history of U.S.-Russian relations, never been an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin, Holding a Weak Hand, Raises the Stakes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/10/04/putin_holding_a_weak_hand_raises_the_stakes_148278.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a Kremlin speech last week, President Vladimir Putin identified Russia's real "enemy" in Ukraine as "the ruling circles of the so-called West" whose "hegemony has a pronounced character of totalitarianism, despotism and apartheid."
In the West, Putin declaimed, "The repression of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Commits US to War for Taiwan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/09/23/biden_commits_us_to_war_for_taiwan_148225.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If China invades Taiwan to unify it with the mainland, the United States will go to war to defend Taiwan and send U.S. troops to fight the invaders.
That is the commitment made last week by President Joe Biden.
Asked by CBS's Scott Pelley on "60 Minutes" if the U.S. would fight in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin's Narrowing Options]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/09/16/putins_narrowing_options_148204.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A desperate Vladimir Putin is a dangerous Vladimir Putin, and there are signs Putin's situation in Ukraine may be becoming desperate.
In the last week, the Russian army in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine was driven out of some 2,200 square miles of territory, according to the Ukrainians,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Liberal Elites Detest Middle America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/09/07/how_liberal_elites_detest_middle_america_148154.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Speaking at a San Francisco fundraiser in 2008, Barack Obama sought to explain the reluctance of working-class Pennsylvanians to rally to his cause.
"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and ... the jobs have been gone now for 25 years, and nothing's replaced them."
"And it's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Winners and Losers From the Ukraine War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/08/30/winners_and_losers_from_the_ukraine_war_148118.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA["There never was a good war or a bad peace," wrote Ben Franklin at the end of the American Revolution.
But that depends on the war-makers and the causes for which they fight.
Six months into the war in Ukraine, launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Feb. 24, when he could not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is 'Autocracy' America's Mortal Enemy?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/08/23/is_autocracy_americas_mortal_enemy_148080.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden declared to the nation and world: "We are engaged anew in a great battle for freedom. A battle between democracy and autocracy."
On her trip to Taiwan, Speaker Nancy Pelosi echoed Biden: "Today, the world faces a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How, When, Do We Come Together Again?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/08/16/how_when_do_we_come_together_again_148053.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When 30 FBI agents showed up at Mar-a-Lago to cart off boxes of documents, it was an authorized, legitimate and justified procedure to retrieve national security secrets being illegally kept there.
Or it was an unprecedented regime raid on the home and office of the foremost political...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Won the Taiwan War Games?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/08/09/who_won_the_taiwan_war_games_148018.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied White House signals that she not stop in Taiwan on her valedictory tour of Asian capitals, she ignited the worst diplomatic U.S.-China row in decades.
And how did last week's collision turn out for the United States?
Writes The New York...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Taiwan's Independence Worth War?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/08/02/is_taiwans_independence_worth_war_147977.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When a man knows he is about to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully, said Dr. Samuel Johnson.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
If there is any benefit to be realized from the collision between China and the U.S. over Speaker Nancy Pelosi's proposed trip to Taiwan, it is this: America needs...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China: Pelosi Trip to Taiwan a Provocation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/07/26/china_pelosi_trip_to_taiwan_a_provocation_147946.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi added to the itinerary of a valedictory trip through Asia the island of Taiwan, she could not have been oblivious to the reaction she would produce in a stunned Beijing.
Thus, when the Financial Times revealed that the speaker would be visiting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Makes Biden So Pugnacious?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/07/22/what_makes_biden_so_pugnacious_147932.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That friendly fist bump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman might not have been such a defining moment -- had Biden not first set himself up.
During the 2020 campaign, Biden said that when he encounters the prince, he would treat him like the "pariah" he was for having authorized...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is a U.S.-Russia War Becoming Inevitable?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/07/15/is_a_us-russia_war_becoming_inevitable_147897.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the NATO summit in Madrid, Finland was invited to join the alliance. What does this mean for Finland?
If Russian President Vladimir Putin breaches the 830-mile Finnish border, the United States will rise to Helsinki's defense and fight Russia on Finland's side.
What does Finland's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New York Times to Biden -- Time To Go!]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/07/12/new_york_times_to_biden_--_time_to_go_147872.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When President Joe Biden retired in Rehoboth Beach on Saturday night, he likely did not expect to find a severed horse's head under his bed covers.
But there it was, courtesy of The New York Times.
"At 79, Biden is Testing the Boundaries of Age and the Presidency" ran the headline over...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Latest Symptoms of a Disintegrating Nation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/07/08/latest_symptoms_of_a_disintegrating_nation_147856.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster," the tale is told that if you approached Webster's grave and called out his name, a voice would boom in reply, "Neighbor, how stands the Union?"
"Then you better answer the Union stands as she stood, rock-bottomed and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. and Ukraine, Goals in Conflict]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/06/03/us_and_ukraine_goals_in_conflict_147687.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Among the nations aiding Ukraine in its resistance to the Russian invasion, America has been foremost. Yet the war interests of our two nations are not identical.
To the U.S., the imperative is that the war be contained, not expanded, and that we not be drawn into a wider war with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are All Men Created Equal?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/27/are_all_men_created_equal_147664.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ideology is political religion, said the conservative sage Russell Kirk.
And what is the defining dogma of the political religion, or ideology, of America in 2022?
Is it not that, "All men are created equal"?
Yet, as with every religion, a basic question needs first to be asked and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Midterms Be Biden's Last Hurrah?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/24/will_midterms_be_bidens_last_hurrah_147640.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For half a decade now, America's media elite have been obsessed with former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party's conversion to Trumpism.
Press and TV are daily consumed with his actions and prospects and the future of the party he captured in 2016.
Perhaps it is time to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Quo Vadis, Mother Russia?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/20/quo_vadis_mother_russia_147627.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA["The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century," said Russia's new ruler Vladimir Putin in his 2005 state of the nation address.
"As for the Russian people," Putin went on, "it became a genuine tragedy. Tens of millions of our fellow citizens and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Would US Give a War Guarantee -- to Finland?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/17/why_would_us_give_a_war_guarantee_--_to_finland_147606.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Seeing Russia invade Ukraine, historically neutral Finland has undergone a late conversion and decided to join NATO immediately.
Why? Because NATO membership means the world's strongest power, the United States, under Article 5 of NATO, would go to war against Russia, should it cross...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are All Court-Created Rights Now in Peril?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/13/are_all_court-created_rights_now_in_peril_147593.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the storm that erupted over the leaked draft opinion of Justice Samuel Alito, which would overturn Roe v. Wade, a secondary alarm has arisen among our elites.
If Roe is overturned, it is said, a whole raft of Supreme Court rulings rooted in the same principles and legal reasoning...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Alito 5 Must Stay the Course]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/06/alito_5_must_stay_the_course_147569.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In February, five Supreme Court Justices voted in camera to overturn Roe v. Wade and send the issue of abortion back to the states, where it resided until 1973.
Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett had all signed on to the majority opinion...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Biden Democrats Holding a Losing Hand?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/03/are_biden_democrats_holding_a_losing_hand_147548.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand."
In the movie classic "Cool Hand Luke," the convict Luke, played by Paul Newman, explains that to his fellow inmates after winning the pot in a hand of poker without even a pair of deuces.
President Joe Biden should take notice. For, right now,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Putin Submit to U.S.-Imposed 'Weakening'?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/04/29/will_putin_submit_to_us-imposed_weakening_147539.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory -- not prolonged indecision."
So said Gen. Douglas MacArthur in his April 1951 address to Congress after being fired by President Harry Truman...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The French Center Holds -- In a World Coming Apart]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/04/26/the_french_center_holds_--_in_a_world_coming_apart_147521.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Things fall apart; the center cannot hold."'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
So wrote William Butler Yeats in the wake of the Great War of 1914-1918 that had ravaged the Christian civilization he had known.
In France on Sunday, the center held, as President Emmanuel Macron rolled up a crushing 59% to 41% victory in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[First Priority -- Avoid U.S. War With Russia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/04/22/first_priority_--_avoid_us_war_with_russia_147507.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Asked if the U.S. should send troops to fight beside the Ukrainians, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said Sunday the time may have come.
Russian President Vladimir Putin "will only stop when we stop him," said Coons.
"We are in a very dangerous moment where it is important that ... we in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Open Borders' Biden Is Remaking America&nbsp;]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/04/19/open_borders_biden_is_remaking_america_147486.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA["The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion."
So reads Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution.
Historically, that constitutional duty -- to protect America's states against invasion --...]]></description>
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