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<title><![CDATA[Stephen Wertheim - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/35868.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Stephen Wertheim]]></description><category domain="35868">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Is Not a Loss or a Victory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/29/russia-ukraine-peace-deal</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Wertheim</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The conflict is neither a clear-cut defeat nor a feel-good victory, but an in-between outcome that contains profound elements of each]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Europe Misunderstanding Trump's Stance on Ukraine?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/03/europe-trump-ukraine</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Wertheim</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The new administration appears to be taking a position that Ukrainian and European leaders aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t hearing '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' or are trying to alter]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why America Can't Have It All]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/why-america-cant-have-it-all</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Wertheim</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Washington must choose between primacy and prioritizing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Democracy Credo Does Not Serve U.S. Interests]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-s-democracy-defense-credo-does-not-serve-u-s-interests/ar-BB1h8G6b</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Wertheim</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve got to prove democracy works,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Joe Biden declared in his first press conference as president. He has dedicated his administration to this task.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2 Decades Later, US Trying to Memory Hole Iraq War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/17/iraq-war-20-years-later-us-forgetting-ukraine-russia</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Wertheim</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In framing the Ukraine war as a fight between democracy and autocracy, Biden shows that the US hasn't learned from Iraq]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Overstretched Foreign Policy Raises Risks for U.S.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ft.com/content/e8bee793-2349-4ef9-bf16-dafad8dbd4c0?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Wertheim</author>
							<description><![CDATA[China, Russia, North Korea and Iran will pose formidable challenges for the Biden administration in 2023]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Dangerous Messages to China on Taiwan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/25/biden-defend-taiwan-china-invasion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Wertheim</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Remarks like this feed China's anxiety that US commitment to its One China policy is slipping]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Biden's 'Summit for Democracy' Is a Bad Idea]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/22/biden-wants-to-convene-an-international-summit-for-democracy-he-shouldnt</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Wertheim</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To undo the damage that Trump has wrought at home and abroad, the US must move beyond outdated foreign policy ideas]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the Democrats Avoid Trump's China Trap?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/opinion/china-coronavirus-trump.html#click=https://t.co/X6a9IUW31W</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Wertheim</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president wants a new cold war to deflect attention from his failures.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Clash Is Coming Over America's Place in the World]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/opinion/2020-foreign-policy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Wertheim</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is it time for the U.S. to confront other great powers '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or to retreat?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem Party Elites Silence Ilhan Omar at Their Peril]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/16/democratic-party-elites-silence-ilhan-omar</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/16/democratic-party-elites-silence-ilhan-omar]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Wertheim</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The congresswoman'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s foreign policy views are far more in line with voters than the disconnected party establishment]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Plan to Save Western Civilization]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/opinion/sunday/donald-trumps-plan-to-save-western-civilization.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Wertheim</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president promised an America First foreign policy, but he's taken on something far more ambitious.]]></description>
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