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<title><![CDATA[Sumantra Maitra - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/35982.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Sumantra Maitra]]></description><category domain="35982">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Misunderstanding the Odyssey]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/misunderstanding-the-odyssey/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nolan's Odyssey is neither Homer's material nor a modern morality play.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Russia-Ukraine War as Seen From Budapest]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-russia-ukraine-war-as-seen-from-budapest/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American Conservative sits down with Bal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¡').';'zs Orb'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¡').';'n, political director to the Hungarian Prime Minister, to discuss why the logic of war should be replaced in the forthcoming Budapest summit by the idea of political settlement.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In the Short Term, There Will Be No Peace]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/in-the-short-term-there-will-be-no-peace/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Neither side wants to compromise, and we shouldn't try to secure a fragile and unnatural equilibrium.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Get Involved in Another Persian Gulf War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dont-get-involved-in-another-persian-gulf-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nothing needs to be said about the war between Israel and Iran that wasn't already said by my colleagues Andrew Day and Jude Russo. At the time of writing, Is]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time for a 'Big, Beautiful Deal' for Greenland]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/time-for-a-big-beautiful-deal-for-greenland/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Commerce, not chaos is the president's preferred foreign policy. He should act on it and build his legacy in Greenland.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['The Thought of American Greatness']]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-thought-of-american-greatness/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mike Solana, vice president of Founders Fund and owner of Pirate Wares, sits down with The American Conservative.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gabbard Is a Dream Come True for Foreign Policy Realists]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/gabbard-is-a-dream-come-true-for-foreign-policy-realists/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Interventionists haven't forgiven her for her opposition to Syrian intervention.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The French Election Is a Warning for Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-french-election-is-a-warning-for-biden/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[State of the Union: Protest votes are usually a sign of, well, protest.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Start Telling the Truth About Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/start-telling-the-truth-about-ukraine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[State of the Union: Ahead of the NATO summit, the president remains trapped by his rhetoric.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons Unlearned]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/lessons-unlearned/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Twenty years after the Iraq invasion: We were granted a rare second chance after Iraq. We seem intent on wasting it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DeSantis' Textbook Realism on Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/your-great-grandfathers-republicanism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis's remarks on Ukraine were textbook realism and a throwback to an old Republican Party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Max Boot's Failed Rebranding Effort]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/das-boot/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Max Boot wants us to know that he is a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'neocon no more.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' In a long essay for Foreign Affairs, ostensibly the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s premier international relations publication and the flagship journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, Boot rebrands himself after a quarter century of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Increasingly Skeptical of Ukraine War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/an-outlet-for-the-unsaid/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The General Melchett school of foreign policy finds a following in Washington's halls of power, with President Biden as its chief tutor.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Local Reactions to the Left's Overreach]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/local-reactions/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Those who fold before the centralized legislative power of the left, will equally fold before the localized legislative power of the right.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[House GOP Must Fix America's Ukraine Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/house-republicans-must-fix-americas-ukraine-policy-opinion-1771701</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the Russo-Ukraine War approaches its second year, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has two options.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Musking of Twitter's Comically Evil Halfwits]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/lessons-from-the-musking-of-twitter/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Twitter can survive without woke bureaucrats, maybe the national security state can, too.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Fog, More War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/more-fog-more-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'This is getting ridiculous,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' an unnamed NATO diplomat was'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' reported'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to say, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the Ukrainians are destroying [our] confidence in them. Nobody is blaming Ukraine and they are openly lying. This is more destructive than the missile.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Masterpiece of German Realism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-masterpiece-of-german-realism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Netflix'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s adaptation of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' All Quiet on the Western Front'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is a reminder that no one wins a great power war.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Clear the GOP Realists Were Right About Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/10/66-billion-in-its-clear-the-realists-were-right-about-ukraine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why were the realist Republicans called Putinists and fascists when they argued for the same thing the Biden administration is doing?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case Against NATO Expansion]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/expanding-nato-will-further-consolidate-europe%E2%80%99s-dependence-us-202636</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Neither war hysteria, a desire to punish Russia, nor sympathy for democratic values and human rights should affect narrow strategic calculations in such a permanent way.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vance &amp; Ukraine: Why Pundit Class Got It Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/jd-vance-passed-ukraine-test-202273</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is commonsensical that Americans would care more about their own border with Mexico, mass migration, gang violence, and drugs than about Ukraine's border with Russia.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Focusing on Russia Instead of China Is a Big Mistake]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/04/focusing-on-russia-instead-of-china-would-be-the-united-statess-biggest-foreign-policy-mistake-ever/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As we reach a month of the Ukrainian war amid talks of possible peace, a strategic appraisal is in order. It appears the Russians thought the war would be easy and fast, the Ukrainians would simply roll over and surrender, and the common people would rise up to greet Russians as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Perils of Emotional Arguments About Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/perils-emotional-arguments-intervention-ukraine-201292</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Intervention is often pushed by those who grew up with no concept of operating under multipolarity, where restraint, realism, and amoral compromises are often needed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Foreign Policy Wake-Up Call for Woke Idealists]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/ukraine-demands-transatlantic-course-correction-200818</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[History's march isn't inherently progressive, and time can be turned back by sheer force.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Needs a New Foreign Policy Establishment]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/grand-strategy-restraint-needs-%E2%80%98counter-elite%E2%80%99-199097</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American foreign policy establishment prefers meddling around the globe because it can afford to without cost or political price. What is needed is a new foreign policy establishment elite based on the principles of realism and restraint.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan Fiasco a Symptom of Greater Elite Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/12/the-afghanistan-fiasco-is-a-symptom-of-a-greater-elite-problem/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/12/the-afghanistan-fiasco-is-a-symptom-of-a-greater-elite-problem/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One does not need to be a fan of Biden, or a leftist, for that matter, to think that total withdrawal from Afghanistan should be a bipartisan cause.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Afghanistan Teaches Us]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/what-afghanistan-teaches-us-about-imperialism-183119</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://nationalinterest.org/feature/what-afghanistan-teaches-us-about-imperialism-183119]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. imperial project in Afghanistan and the greater Middle East will be studied as a case study of the largest failed global redistribution project worth trillions of dollars, money that could have been used for so many other things.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dark Days of Higher Education Are Here]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/dark-days-higher-education-are-here-177030</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://nationalinterest.org/feature/dark-days-higher-education-are-here-177030]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Academic bureaucracy is behind the rise of a new anti-classics movement.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Draw the Battle Lines: Amy Barrett Is a Clear Choice]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/22/theres-no-downside-to-trump-nominating-amy-coney-barrett/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/22/theres-no-downside-to-trump-nominating-amy-coney-barrett/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This election was always going to be about culture. Trump should treat the election as referendums on cultural issues and nominate Amy Coney Barrett.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ricky Gervais Is the Heretic We Need Right Now]]></title>
							<link>https://thepostmillennial.com/ricky-gervais-is-the-heretic-we-need-right-now</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://thepostmillennial.com/ricky-gervais-is-the-heretic-we-need-right-now]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sumantra Maitra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The idea of one big white race did not just spring to life full-blown and unchanging, which is what most people assume '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and white supremacists rely on.]]></description>
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