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        <title><![CDATA[Michael Dempsey - VP:Corporate & Strategy]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Michael Dempsey is the national intelligence fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former acting director of national intelligence.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Three Looming Crises That May Rattle Oil Markets]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Iranian sanctions, Venezuelan unrest and Libyan terrorists could push prices up. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2018 10:00:16 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The crude oil tanker &apos;Devon&apos; sails through the Persian Gulf towards Kharq Island to transport crude oil to export markets in the Persian Gulf, Iran, on Friday, March 23, 2018. Geopolitical risk is creeping back into the crude oil market.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[U.S. and China Have Bigger Problems Than a Trade War]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Fake islands, the Taiwan Travel Act and Chinese outreach to Russia are making military conflict more likely.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-11/not-just-trade-war-china-and-u-s-headed-to-military-showdown</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:00:12 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with China&apos;s President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders&apos; summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 10, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Sputnik / Konstantin ZAVRAZHIN        (Photo credit should read KONSTANTIN ZAVRAZHIN/AFP/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Putin Won at the Ballot Box. He's Losing Elsewhere.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Russia increasingly faces a mess in Syria, U.S. aid to Ukraine, harsh sanctions, and anemic economic growth.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-19/putin-s-election-prize-a-crumbling-economy-and-a-mess-in-syria</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:00:16 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Russian President Vladimir Putin plunges into the icy waters of lake Seliger during the celebration of the Epiphany holiday in Russia&apos;s Tver region early on January 19, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / SPUTNIK / Alexey DRUZHININ        (Photo credit should read ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Putin Is Losing the Long Game on Foreign Policy]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Yes, he took Crimea and propped up Assad. But his economy is a mess and he faces the NATO he always feared.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-07/putin-is-losing-the-long-game-on-foreign-policy</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:00:10 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony for Russia&apos;s Navy Day in Saint Petersburg on July 30, 2017.President Vladimir Putin oversaw a pomp-filled display of Russia&apos;s naval might as the Kremlin paraded its sea power from the Baltic Sea to the shores of Syria. Some 50 warships and submarines were on show along the Neva River and in the Gulf of Finland off the country&apos;s second city of Saint Petersburg after Putin ordered the navy to hold its first ever parade on such a grand scale.  / AFP PHOTO / OLGA MALTSEVA        (Photo credit should read OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP/Getty Images)</media:description>
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