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Chris Herrmann

@cwherrmann.bsky.social
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US Programme Coordinator @ECFR.eu

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ECFR @ecfr.eu · 04/09/2025
Trump had already established his ideological undertone during his 2017 Warsaw speech, which warned of a West “under siege”. Now Trump’s plan to transform Europe in his image is well underway, writes @cwherrmann.bsky.social bit.ly/45zTvLd
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Trump’s quest to transform the West
The Trump administration is drawing on Roman Empire imagery, and Trump’s own version of Christianity, to reinforce its perception of Western values and impose conditional bilateral partnerships.
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Chris Herrmann @cwherrmann.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
"The Trump administration is drawing on Roman Empire imagery, and Trump’s own version of Christianity, to reinforce its perception of Western values and impose conditional bilateral partnerships." Read my latest piece for @ecfr.eu ecfr.eu/article/trum...
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Trump’s quest to transform the West
The Trump administration is drawing on Roman Empire imagery, and Trump’s own version of Christianity, to reinforce its perception of Western values and impose conditional bilateral partnerships.
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Chris Herrmann @cwherrmann.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Uh oh. Peter Navarro must have had an early morning at the White House. Make sure to read @tobiasgehrke.bsky.social on the cards that Europe has in this game of high stakes hold 'em. (link in thread)
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Chris Herrmann @cwherrmann.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
1/Over two presidential terms, Donald Trump has used threats to intimidate his adversaries and mostly only employed force against his weaker victims. This pattern of bullying provides an insight into his future decision-making. @jyshapiro.bsky.social @ecfr.eu
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Chris Herrmann @cwherrmann.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
"America is not looking to make the world safe for democracy, protect Ukrainian sovereignty or seek a new transatlantic balance in providing for European security. It is pursuing an aura of peace and a new deal with Russia." Read our new piece here for @ecfr.eu: ecfr.eu/article/the-...
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The art of the peace deal: What the Trump administration wants from the Russia-Ukraine negotiations
Trump is keen to trade US involvement in Ukraine for a vision of a new Russian-American order
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Chris Herrmann @cwherrmann.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New video out! @jyshapiro.bsky.social joined Johnny Harris to talk about proxy wars and what makes the war in Ukraine different. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqJn...
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The New Way Nations are Fighting (and why it matters)
YouTube video by Johnny Harris
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Chris Herrmann @cwherrmann.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Listen to @jyshapiro.bsky.social on the most recent episode of Pod Save the World podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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Call of Duty: Dumbass Group Chat
Podcast Episode · Pod Save the World · 03/26/2025 · 1h 33m
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Chris Herrmann @cwherrmann.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The Europeans do indeed hold cards when it comes to the US and the Trump Administration. @tobiasgehrke.bsky.social digs in to explain what they are and how effective they might be if played in the coming months in his new brief. Read it here and share your thoughts! @ecfr.eu ecfr.eu/publication/...
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Brussels hold’em: European cards against Trumpian coercion
Faced with an aggressive United States, Europe has more leverage than it realises. Across trade, technology, infrastructure, finance and people-to-people relations it has ways of retaliating…
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Chris Herrmann @cwherrmann.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Jamieson Greer is set to be confirmed today as Trump's USTR. Read Majda Ruge's latest piece that details what he will bring to the US-EU trade relationship. @ecfr.eu ecfr.eu/article/faci...
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Facing Trump’s tariff war: A defensive blueprint for the EU
Trump and his cabinet hold divergent views on the use and purpose of tariffs. The EU needs a robust defence of its interests on all fronts
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Chris Herrmann @cwherrmann.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"Trump has shifted the US government from a technocratic policy process to a factional policy process... It is by design opaque, redundant, and contradictory. But elections have consequences, and this is one of them." @jyshapiro.bsky.social blueblaze.substack.com/p/how-the-tr...
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How the Trump administration makes foreign policy decisions
The Technocratic versus Factional Processes
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Chris Herrmann @cwherrmann.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"Europeans need to stop asking why the Americans cut them out and demonstrate that they need to be cut in. They need to show not just that they have assets, but that they can strategically deploy (or withhold) them as part of a negotiation." - @jyshapiro.bsky.social ecfr.eu/article/lett...
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Letter from Washington: Why Trump ignores Europe
Donald Trump has effectively ignored Europeans in his plan for negotiations over the war in Ukraine. In searching for a reason, Europeans must face the uncomfortable truth: they simply aren’t importan...
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
It’s not just that the salute was so obviously Nazi. It’s that everything we know about Elon suggests he would do something like this www.vox.com/politics/396...
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Elon Musk doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt
Elon Musk’s Nazi trolling exposes the collapse of America’s guardrails against some of history’s foulest ideas.
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Chris Herrmann @cwherrmann.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
"Trump makes a tremendous number of forceful threats and executes very little of them. Largely, he is a Chickenhawk. He is quite afraid of war and quite proud of the fact that he hasn't committed the US to wars." - @jyshapiro.bsky.social on Decoding Geopolitics www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNRj...
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Will Donald Trump Defend Taiwan and What's His Plan For Ukraine? | Ep. 47 Jeremy Shapiro
YouTube video by Decoding Geopolitics Podcast
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Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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Chris Herrmann @cwherrmann.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Oh what could have been. We reap what we sow.
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Chris Herrmann @cwherrmann.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The Gaetz controversy has made Trump’s other cabinet picks, who would normally be nonstarters, seem less extreme. I doubt that this was the intention, but the effect is Gaetz is now the sacrificial lamb that might hold the door open for Gabbard, Hegseth, and RFK Jr. who look palatable in comparison
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Chris Herrmann @cwherrmann.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
What do we have in store over the next four years? Is the "Orbanisation of America" around the corner? Read @jyshapiro.bsky.social and @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social and you will begin to notice the eerie similarities. ecfr.eu/publication/...
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The Orbanisation of America: Hungary’s lessons for Donald Trump
If Trump wins the US presidency, Republicans will likely adapt techniques refined in Viktor Orban’s Hungary as they return to power – with profound implications for both America and Europe.
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Chris Herrmann @cwherrmann.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A bit shocked that anyone is rooting for this type of austerity in the US... A poverty rate above 50% is unconscionable outside of the Twitterverse www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Argentina poverty rate soars over 50% as Milei austerity bites
Argentina's poverty rate soared to almost 53% in the first half of the year, official data released on Thursday showed, the first hard evidence of the painful impact of libertarian President Javier Milei's tough austerity measures.
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Chris Herrmann @cwherrmann.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The combination of primacists, prioritisers, and restrainers that Trump selects for key foreign policy roles in his cabinet illustrates the battle for Trump's mind ahead of his inauguration in January. Read Majda Ruge's new piece for @ecfr.bsky.social here: ecfr.eu/article/up-c...
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Up close and personnel: What Donald Trump’s administrative picks mean for US foreign policy and Europe
Donald Trump is choosing the cabinet for his second administration. Who will oversee key foreign policy positions – and whether they are a ‘primacist’, ‘prioritiser’, or ‘restrainer’ – will determine ...
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Chris Herrmann @cwherrmann.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We are live.
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