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<title><![CDATA[Brandon Weichert - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/44329.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Brandon Weichert]]></description><category domain="44329">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump Will Walk Away From Ukraine. That's a Good Thing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-will-walk-away-from-ukraine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And that's a good thing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Crimean Folly]]></title>
							<link>https://asiatimes.com/2023/02/the-crimean-folly/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Mongols. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Sweden. Crimean Tatars. The Ottoman Empire. Napoleon. Hitler.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  And now, NATO?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' This is at least how the regime of Vladimir Putin sees things.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Breaking Russia? More Like Breaking Ourselves]]></title>
							<link>https://asiatimes.com/2023/02/breaking-russia-more-like-breaking-ourselves/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We're going to bleed the Russians in the field! was what one senior US Air Force official proudly claimed at an event I was speaking at last year. It made sense. At the time, Russia had illegally'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wasted Tanks, Wasted Time in Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://asiatimes.com/2023/01/wasted-tanks-wasted-time-in-ukraine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After almost a year of pleading with their North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies for advanced main battle tanks (MBTs), the alliance is finally giving in to the Ukrainians.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Strategy of Failure Comes to Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://asiatimes.com/2023/01/americas-strategy-of-failure-comes-to-ukraine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the failures of the US military missions in places like Afghanistan and Iraq '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and many other Muslim nations like Libya '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' critics of the US mission in the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'global war on terrorism'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' have lamented the lack of a coherent strategy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ukraine Will Lose to Russia Unless It Makes a Deal]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/13/russia-not-yet-defeated/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Russian Army is in the process of pushing the Ukrainian military back from their territorial holdings in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. As the winter presses on and the ground continues to freeze, a force of roughly 350,000 Russian conscripts has been assembled across the border in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dear GOP: Only DeSantis Can Win in 2024]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2022/12/18/only-ron-desantis-can-win-in-2024/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' time is not in 2028. It is now, heading into 2024. Or it will never happen.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Growing Danger of Biden's Failed Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://asiatimes.com/2022/03/did-biden-just-escalate-in-ukraine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Friday, reports began emanating from Russia's military command that they were changing the objectives of what many Western analysts claim has been Moscow's flagging invasion of Ukraine.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Admin Unprepared for Brass Knuckle Street Fight]]></title>
							<link>https://asiatimes.com/2022/03/us-unprepared-for-russias-massive-retaliation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine grinds on and the death toll mounts '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and Ukrainian resistance holds up under the Russian assault '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' the threat of escalation is high. Since we live in the age of asymmetry, escalation in unpredictable and unconventional ways from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Has Unlearned the Lessons of Pearl Harbor]]></title>
							<link>https://asiatimes.com/2021/12/us-has-unlearned-the-lessons-of-pearl-harbor/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Eighty years ago, the world changed forever. In the early hours of December 7, 1941, Japanese warplanes launched from the decks of a fleet of Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carriers that had surreptitiously departed Japan months before navigated a circuitous route across the North...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why China Could Vanquish the U.S. in New Space Race]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/05/21/why_china_could_vanquish_the_us_in_new_space_race_145795.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are now only two nations in the history of humanity that have successfully landed rovers on the surface of the Red Planet: The United States and the People'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Republic of China. You can expect this to be the dominant headline in all matters related to space for many years to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China &amp; Russia Are Winning the New Space Race]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/03/13/china_and_russia_are_winning_the_new_space_race_145394.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conflict, not cooperation, is going to define international affairs for the foreseeable future. This will be true both on Earth and, more importantly, in the strategic high ground of space. Fact is, the second space race is on. The world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s powers are playing for keeps. Whoever wins...]]></description>
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