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Rachel Tausendfreund

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Senior Fellow for USA/Transatlantic relations @DGAP (German Council on Foreign Relations). From Michigan, based in Berlin, go Lions!

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Europe in a US Grand Strategy of Restraint
YouTube video by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V. Europe in a US Grand Strategy of Restraint

Re-watch now our discussion with Justin Logan from
Cato Institute! As part of our “Remaking America?” event series with @scripts-berlin.eu, we discussed what a 🇺🇸 strategy of restraint could mean for 🇪🇺 & how transatlantic relations would evolve under this vision.

@thousandfriend.bsky.social

06.10.2025 13:52 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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DGAP's Morning Briefing

Join our upcoming #MorningBriefing this Thursday! Together with our experts @thousandfriend.bsky.social & András Rácz, host @stoeckmannjan.bsky.social will assess the current situation on the frontlines in #Ukraine and the state of the negotiations.

Register now!

02.09.2025 11:57 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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On Thursday 19 June, we'll be discussing the #Trump presidency and the future of 🇺🇸 foreign policy with Ambassador John Bolton as part of our ‘Remaking America?’ series with @scripts-berlin.eu, hosted by @thousandfriend.bsky.social.

Join us at our premises or online via Zoom!
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11.06.2025 09:04 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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DGAP’s Morning Briefing

Join our #MorningBriefing next Friday! Together with
@thousandfriend.bsky.social & Gideon Rose @cfr.org, host
@stoeckmannjan.bsky.social will assess the meeting between Donald Trump & Friedrich Merz on June 5 and its implications for transatlantic relations & 🇪🇺 security policy.

Register now! 👇

03.06.2025 12:55 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
US-Päsident Donald Trump bei seiner Rede vor dem amerikanischen Kongress am 4. März 2025 (Foto: Daniel Torok/The White House)

US-Päsident Donald Trump bei seiner Rede vor dem amerikanischen Kongress am 4. März 2025 (Foto: Daniel Torok/The White House)

100 Tage Trump – stehen wir am Beginn einer neuen Weltordnung? Um 19 Uhr beginnt unsere Diskussion mit Rieke Havertz @havpost.bsky.social, Christoph von Marschall @tagesspiegel.de und Rachel Tausendfreund @thousandfriend.bsky.social. Infos und Link zum Livestream: www.evangelische-akademie.de/62873

19.05.2025 08:57 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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Remaking America

To start off our new event series “Remaking America?” with @scripts-berlin.eu, we will welcome Mark DiPlacido on 15 May to discuss Donald Trump's tariffs & 🇺🇸 #trade policy. His remarks will be further discussed with @mhallerberg.bsky.social & the event moderated by @thousandfriend.bsky.social.

09.05.2025 12:31 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Die ersten 90 Tage Trump 2.0 Dieser Bericht untersucht die ersten 90 Tage der Administration Trump 2.0 und bietet strategische Handlungsempfehlungen für die neue Bundesregierung sowie ihre Partner in Europa und darüber hinaus. In...

Bei der Paneldiskussion diskutierten die Autorinnen und Autoren der Studie "Die ersten 90 Tage Trump 2.0" @thousandfriend.bsky.social, Claudia Schmucker, Michael Laha, @aylinmatle.bsky.social und Victoria Rietig. Lesen Sie die Studie hier: dgap.org/de/forschung...
ENGLISH: dgap.org/en/research/...

29.04.2025 11:29 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

... Michael Laha, Claudia Schmucker & @aylinmatle.bsky.social die politischen Neuausrichtung in Washington aus verschiedenen fachlichen Blickwinkeln. Moderiert wird das Panel von unserer 🇺🇸-Expertin @thousandfriend.bsky.social.

Jetzt anmelden & dabei sein! /2

23.04.2025 14:37 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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"Was jetzt? – Die Woche": Neue Weltordnung – Verkennen wir hier den Ernst der Lage? Donald Trump wendet sich von der EU ab und stärkt mit seinem Kurs Putins Position. Was auf Europa noch zukommt, in "Was jetzt? – Die Woche".

Welches Ziel verfolgt Donald #Trump & wie können sich die 🇪🇺 Staaten unabhängiger von den 🇺🇸 machen, gerade in Sachen #Verteidigung? Diese Fragen & mehr diskutiert #USA-Expertin @thousandfriend.bsky.social im @zeit.de-Videopodcast „Was jetzt? — Die Woche“.

Zur Sendung 📺👇

07.03.2025 09:52 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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DGAP’s Morning Briefing

How can 🇪🇺 move its plans for security guarantees in 🇺🇦 forward & how can it react to eroding transatlantic #security? For answers, join our next #MorningBriefing with @dgap.org experts @aylinmatle.bsky.social, @thousandfriend.bsky.social & Rolf Nikel, hosted by @stoeckmannjan.bsky.social!

04.03.2025 11:43 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Rachel Tausendfreund appears on CNN live from Berlin, commenting on the German federal election. The screen is split: on the left, Rachel speaks against a neutral background; on the right, a crowded event space shows people gathered, watching election coverage on a large screen. The CNN headline reads, "Polls: AfD surges into second place in German elections."

Rachel Tausendfreund appears on CNN live from Berlin, commenting on the German federal election. The screen is split: on the left, Rachel speaks against a neutral background; on the right, a crowded event space shows people gathered, watching election coverage on a large screen. The CNN headline reads, "Polls: AfD surges into second place in German elections."

"Europe needs Germany—and a strong German government," says @thousandfriend.bsky.social on CNN. Early exit polls suggest many parties in the Bundestag, meaning Friedrich Merz may need two coalition partners —making talks more complicated. #GermanyVotes

23.02.2025 17:45 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Eine Europäisierung der NATO ist unabdingbar Die europäische Sicherheitsordnung ist durch Russlands Neo-Imperialismus, Chinas Machtstreben und schwindende US-Sicherheitsgarantien gefährdet. Wollen Deutschland und Europa, dass die NATO an der Sei...


"Eine Europäisierung der NATO ist unabdingbar - Was Berlin hierfür tun muss" haben @thousandfriend.bsky.social und ich in einem @dgap.org-Memo im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl aufgeschrieben: dgap.org/de/forschung.... #BTW2025

22.01.2025 14:25 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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„Die einzige nachhaltige Antwort auf die schwindende 🇺🇸-Präsenz in 🇪🇺 ist eine stärkere Europäisierung der NATO“, schreiben @aylinmatle.bsky.social & @thousandfriend.bsky.social in ihrem Memo. 🇩🇪 muss hier eine Vorreiterrolle übernehmen, indem es folgende 3⃣ Maßnahmen umsetzt, so unsere Expertinnen: /1

22.01.2025 16:19 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Looks like the “I wanna buy Greenland” debate is back

23.12.2024 07:06 — 👍 119    🔁 15    💬 16    📌 4
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🟢 Did you miss our webinar "𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝟮.𝟬: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲 & 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 – 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝘂𝗽?" with @thousandfriend.bsky.social & @rkefferputz.bsky.social?
Rewatch it here ▶️ www.youtube.com/live/5QWWv6R...
@boell.de @dgap.org

13.12.2024 11:10 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Will China Take Over the Global Auto Industry? China's electric vehicle capacity will soon match total Chinese domestic auto demand, and total Chinese auto production capacity is already over half of total global auto demand ...

"The risk of second China shock isn’t just an issue because of Donald J. Trump. The risks to other global centers of automotive engineering, design, and production thus should be clear. Germany in particular needs to take note".

The always essential Brad Setser.

www.cfr.org/blog/will-ch...

08.12.2024 21:46 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Tulsi Gabbard’s Own Ex-Staffers Expose Her as a Russian Stooge Donald Trump’s pick to serve as director of national intelligence regularly consumed Russian propaganda.

“Behind closed doors, people think she might be compromised. Like it’s not hyperbole,” one Republican Senate aide told The Hill. “There are members of our conference who think she’s a [Russian] asset.”

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Gabbard soll Director of National Intelligence werden unter Trump 🫠

06.12.2024 05:14 — 👍 44    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 0
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Trump 2.0: The future of Ukraine and European security – Can the EU step up? Donald Trump’s return to the White House will redefine the transatlantic security landscape. With his stance on Ukraine and NATO, signalling a shift toward reduced U.S. engagement, the EU faces urgent...

🟢 Trump 2.0: The future of Ukraine and European security – Can the EU step up?
Join our webinar on 12/12 at 10:30 CET presenting the 🆕 study by @thousandfriend.bsky.social & @rkefferputz.bsky.social ➡️ calendar.boell.de/en/trump-sce...
@boell.de @dgap.org @ecfrpower.bsky.social

04.12.2024 10:34 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Le Tchad rompt ses accords de coopération de défense avec la France, annonce le ministre des affaires étrangères tchadien « Ce n’est pas une rupture avec la France comme au Niger ou ailleurs », a néanmoins assuré le ministre Abderaman Koulamallah.

Big things are happening in Africa for France.

“Chad, the last Sahelian country to host French forces, gave assurances on Thursday November 28 that it would terminate its security and defense agreements with Paris”

www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

29.11.2024 08:24 — 👍 63    🔁 18    💬 7    📌 3
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Pivotal Powers: Multilateral Reform and Minilateral Cooperation Read the full chapter by selecting "Download PDF". Read the full chapter by selecting "Download PDF".

🏛️ Chapter 1, Multilateral Reform and Minilateral
Cooperation by Garima Mohan & @thousandfriend.bsky.social

"But pivotal powers resist demands for binary
alliances. They are also united in trying to assert their own influence to shape the global order."

www.gmfus.org/news/pivotal...

18.11.2024 13:33 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Erst Klimapolitik, jetzt Abtreibung, nach und nach werden Themen in DE neu politisiert nach amerikanischen Vorbild (und dort läuft es prima, wie wir wissen)

16.11.2024 08:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump wins Dearborn amid anger over Gaza and Lebanon; Jill Stein receives 18% of vote Donald Trump won Dearborn and made gains in Hamtramck amid anger in Arab American and Muslim communities about deaths in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen.

This is big - Trump WON Dearborn (18% for Jill Stein) www.freep.com/story/news/p...

06.11.2024 13:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ursula von der Leyen’s new European Commission Commission president hands out the top jobs in her new team.

New European Commission - including defence (and space) commissioner Andrius Kubilius.

www.politico.eu/article/ursu...

17.09.2024 09:08 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Column | Since 2016, Trump has kept dialing up his racist appeals One lesson the former president took away from 2020, it seems, is that his approach to race is not a barrier to his support from non-White people.

A lesson Trump learned in 2020 is that the rhetoric he used that was criticized as racist didn't keep him from improving with non-White voters. So he keeps turning that dial further to the right. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

11.09.2024 03:11 — 👍 45    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Guys, I feel like Trump‘s insane talent for nasty (and highly effective) monikers is failing this time. “Laughing Kamala”? What is so bad about about a full-throated laugh? No, really. I think they are miscalculating the standard degree of misogyny this time. Am I wrong?

23.07.2024 07:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Idk, I often disagree with Yascha - but there is something importantly troubling about a left that has abandoned its humanity for its own version of no-holds-barred teamism.

23.10.2023 19:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Thoughts on Israel and Gaza It’s been 17 days since Hamas launched its horrific attack against Israel, killing over 1,400 Israeli citizens, including defenseless…

Something more like this needs to be coming from the German center-left (@Greens) as well. I know it’s more complicated in Germany, but nonetheless necessary barackobama.medium.com/my-statement...

23.10.2023 19:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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