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<title><![CDATA[Mark Episkopos - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/44006.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Mark Episkopos]]></description><category domain="44006">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Realists Were Right About Russia-Ukraine War]]></title>
							<link>https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-war-realists/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Episkopos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Ukraine war'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' has, since its outset, been fertile ground for a particular kind of intellectual axe grinding, with establishment actors rushing to launder their abysmal policy record by projecting its many failures and conceits onto others.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the West's Goals in Ukraine Have Morphed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-years-turning-tide/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Episkopos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An initially modest effort to help Ukraine defend itself morphed into a quest to inflict crushing defeat on Moscow.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Have Sanctions Against Russia Failed?]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/have-western-sanctions-against-russia-failed-204354</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Episkopos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the Ukraine War enters its seventh month, a growing number of policymakers, experts, and officials are expressing concerns that Western sanctions against Russia have failed to achieve their intended effect.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How U.S. and Europe Failed To Isolate Russia]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-west-failed-isolate-russia-203796</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Episkopos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Though Russia has been increasingly isolated from the West and certain Western-led institutions, Vladimir Putin's meetings in Tehran point to a different and altogether more unsettling phenomenon.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Russia and Ukraine Negotiate an End to War?]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/can-russia-and-ukraine-negotiate-end-war-200858</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Episkopos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Top Kremlin officials, up to and including Putin, continue to insist that Russia's goal remains the denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine, suggesting that Moscow will accept nothing short of Kiev's total and unconditional capitulation.]]></description>
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