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<title><![CDATA[Tom McTague - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/38367.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Tom McTague]]></description><category domain="38367">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Are We Prepared for 'Eternal War' in Ukraine?]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2023/02/are-we-prepared-for-eternal-war-in-ukraine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One year on, senior officials are pessimistic]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Worst, Best Prime Minister]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-worst-best-prime-minister/ar-AAZjXjk</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Boris Johnson achieved very little, but one very big thing: Brexit.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Game Is (Probably) Up for Boris Johnson]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-game-is-probably-up-for-boris-johnson/ar-AAZeNSY</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His most senior ministers are getting off the carousel of chaos because they just don't see him governing the country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Biggest Challenge &amp; Principal Strategic Threat Is China]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-west-s-world-war-ii-moment/ar-AAVPpsf</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The principal strategic threat to the Western world has shifted, creating a whole new set of problems.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. and Europe Tout Unity, But It's Temporary]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-wests-unity-is-temporary/ar-AAVr4HS</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. and Europe tout a revitalized alliance, but Joe Biden's visit to Brussels masks deeper disagreements.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the West May Have To Offer Putin a Way Out]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/03/west-save-putin-russia-ukraine/627051/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The question for world leaders is how to ensure the Russian president is defeated while nevertheless providing him a route out of the crisis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Much Will the West Sacrifice for Ukraine?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/how-much-will-the-west-sacrifice-for-ukraine/ar-AAUd1u2</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Western world will have to prove that it has not become all of the things Vladimir Putin has long believed it to be.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boris Johnson: The Tears of a Clown]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-tears-of-a-clown/ar-AAT4KtJ</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We were in the white room in 10 Downing Street, and Boris Johnson was joking around with the photographer who was taking his portrait. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'You'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re like the kind-of taxidermist in The Godfather,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Johnson said, laughing. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Do you remember? The funeral'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Britain Be the Ally America Needs?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/06/britain-g7-boris-johnson/619163/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Both London and Washington hope to build democratic alliances. Yet can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and should'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'they lead them?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Britain's Brexit Mayhem Was Worth It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-britains-brexit-mayhem-was-worth-it/ar-BB1ccRKD</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No, of course'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the past few weeks'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'like the past few months, and the past few years'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'of Brexit drama have not made much sense. In economic terms, not a lot about Brexit ever has.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Uniquely Humiliating Moment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-decline-of-the-american-world/ar-BB15TDb0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The world is used to loathing America, admiring America, and fearing America (sometimes all at once). But pitying America? That one is new.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Covid-19's Geopolitical Aftershocks Are Coming]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With most European countries confident that they are past the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, their attention is turning to the chance of its resurgence once society returns to some semblance of normal. But beyond the epidemiological challenges lies a slowly amassing threat that is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Being a Parent Has Made My Pandemic Life Simpler]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/05/parenting-makes-pandemic-life-better-not-worse/611110/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the strange effect of being forced to slow down, to spend all of one'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time outside work pootling and pottering rather than actually doing things and seeing people. Perhaps it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the atmosphere, the eerie streets, the cordoned-off playgrounds and lines of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[British Control Meets EU Power]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/02/britain-eu-brexit-boris-johnson-economics-sovereignty/606010/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is it possible for a mid-size power living alongside a hegemon to reassert national control without suffering a loss of prosperity?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did Trump Stumble Into a Foreign-Policy Triumph?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A year and a half into Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidency, Henry Kissinger set out a theory. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I think Trump may be one of those figures in history who appears from time to time to mark the end of an era and to force it to give up its old pretences,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' told the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Financial Times....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Boris Johnson's Britain, Now]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/12/boris-johnson-britain-uk-election/603466/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His impact on the country's politics has been revolutionary, and his resounding victory means he can remake it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Johnson Bets on a Strategy May Ignored]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Conservative Party did not lose Britain'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 2017 general election, but it has spent the last two and a half years trying to understand why it did. The Labour Party, in contrast,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' did'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' lose the 2017 election but has acted as if it did not, convinced that its only mistake was not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boris Johnson Won a Brexit Round, But the EU Held the Line]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/10/boris-johnson-brexit-eu/600274/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two lessons emerged from the latest Brexit deal: The British prime minister garnered a concession his predecessor couldn't, but the EU has still held the line.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Boris Johnson Actually Winning?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/10/boris-johnson-britain-winning/599998/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At least politically, if not diplomatically, the British prime minister appears to be making some progress.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boris Has Prepared His Entire Life for This. Is He Ready?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/07/boris-johnson-profile/594379/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hailed as a savant, lampooned as a fraud, Britain's likely next prime minister must lead his country through its moment of maximum peril'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and opportunity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Has Few Friends in Europe]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.eu/article/why-us-president-donald-trump-has-no-friends-in-europe-nato-summit-defense-spending-populism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom McTague</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For Europe'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s leaders, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s personal. Whatever the warm words and backslapping for the U.S. president at'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' NATOWednesday, for Europe'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s chancellors, prime ministers and presidents Donald Trump poses a clear and present danger to their job security.]]></description>
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