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							<title><![CDATA[NATO and the Future of European Security]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/08/01/nato_and_the_future_of_european_security_the_german_question_1126352.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Michta</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Governance Has Been Hollowed Out by Inept, Entitled Leaders]]></title>
							<link>https://x.com/andrewmichta/status/1926641221591568593</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Michta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Watching the West stumble from one crisis to the next, I think democratic governance has been hollowed by our inept elites, possibly beyond repair. I see this both as a byproduct of globalization and what has been happening deep inside our nations and our communities.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Must Learn From the Failed Global Neoliberal Project]]></title>
							<link>https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/09/the-end-of-neo-liberal-global-era/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Michta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States has finally left'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Afghanistan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' twenty years after the original failed mission to bring'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Osama Bin Laden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and his criminal gang to justice morphed into a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' nation-building project, breathtaking in scope and ambition. The national humiliation over the chaos...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why America Was Destined to Fail in Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/08/why-america-was-destined-to-fail-in-afghanistan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Michta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In April, President Joe Biden ordered the full withdrawal of remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, in effect ending America's longest overseas war; the mission itself is now slated to be over by August 31.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Since the announcement, the Taliban have been on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Progressivism &amp; the Fracturing of the American Ideal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/the-fracturing-of-the-american-ideal/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Michta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Collectivism in any guise, including its postmodern progressivist variety, has been historically antithetical to a free society.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China's Promise: A Free Market for Unfree People]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.eu/article/chinas-promise-a-free-market-for-unfree-people/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Michta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Beijing is taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis to wage an ideological challenge to the West.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Long Hard Road to Decoupling From China]]></title>
							<link>https://www.the-american-interest.com/2020/04/08/the-long-hard-road-to-decoupling-from-china/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Michta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's by now beyond clear that China is no partner to the United States. A difficult, but necessary, separation lies ahead.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wuhan Virus &amp; the Imperative of Decoupling From China]]></title>
							<link>https://www.the-american-interest.com/2020/03/17/the-wuhan-virus-and-the-imperative-of-hard-decoupling/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Michta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It won't be easy or painless, but the role China has played in exacerbating the fallout from the coronavirus crisis ought to force Americans to fundamentally reconsider the relationship.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As China Surges, Europe Is on the Menu]]></title>
							<link>https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/09/11/as-china-surges-europe-is-on-the-menu/?utm-access=rcw</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Michta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[China's naval expansion and commercial push into Europe are aimed at redefining the global trade and security system to the detriment of the democratic West. Europe and the U.S. need to wake up to the challenge.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Deconstruction of the West]]></title>
							<link>https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/04/12/the-deconstruction-of-the-west/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Michta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The greatest threat to the liberal international order comes not from Russia, China, or jihadist terror but from the self-induced deconstruction of Western culture.]]></description>
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