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        <title><![CDATA[Emma Ashford - Senior Fellow:Scowcroft Center for Strategy & Security]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Emma Ashford is a senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. She is author of the upcoming “Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates.”]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Biden’s Reversal on Gulf States Is the Wrong Kind of Realpolitik]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In a futile attempt to lower gas prices, the president risks entangling the US further in a region it should be trying to exit. Reviving the Iran nuclear deal would be smarter.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-26/biden-s-reversal-on-saudis-uae-is-bad-strategy-and-won-t-lower-gas-prices</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2022 12:00:38 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>TOPSHOT - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives at the Future Investment Initiative FII conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh on October 24, 2018. - The summit, nicknamed &quot;Davos in the desert&quot;, has been overshadowed by growing global outrage over the murder of a Saudi journalist inside the kingdom&apos;s consulate in Istanbul. (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP) (Photo credit should read GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[NATO Should Think Twice Before Accepting Finland and Sweden]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Neither nation is in fear of a Russian invasion, and they may just free-ride off US security like other Europeans.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-30/russia-ukraine-war-finland-and-sweden-may-hurt-nato-more-than-help</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2022 08:00:46 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>This photograph taken through a window of a NATO Airbus A330 aircraft refuelling tanker shows a Swedish Grippen fighter jet during NATO exercise &apos;Cold Response&apos; over Norway on March 22, 2022. (Photo by John THYS / AFP) (Photo by JOHN THYS/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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