US Programme Coordinator @ECFR.euhttps://bsky.app/profile/cwherrmann.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/cwherrmann.bsky.social/post/3lw5nlsu6k22f"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 https://ecfr.eu/article/trumps-quest-to-transform-the-west/11 Aug 2025 20:37 +0000at://did:plc:zklwlm3d5x2jwwyn5eclzm7f/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw5nlsu6k22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/cwherrmann.bsky.social/post/3lptsubhr722wUh 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)23 May 2025 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:zklwlm3d5x2jwwyn5eclzm7f/app.bsky.feed.post/3lptsubhr722whttps://bsky.app/profile/cwherrmann.bsky.social/post/3loo27uage22x1/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.eu08 May 2025 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:zklwlm3d5x2jwwyn5eclzm7f/app.bsky.feed.post/3loo27uage22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/cwherrmann.bsky.social/post/3llwoa32axk2u"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: https://ecfr.eu/article/the-art-of-the-peace-deal-what-the-trump-administration-wants-from-the-russia-ukraine-negotiations/03 Apr 2025 19:47 +0000at://did:plc:zklwlm3d5x2jwwyn5eclzm7f/app.bsky.feed.post/3llwoa32axk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/cwherrmann.bsky.social/post/3lleud6ki5s25New video out! @jyshapiro.bsky.social joined Johnny Harris to talk about proxy wars and what makes the war in Ukraine different. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqJnmaLWnqQ27 Mar 2025 17:49 +0000at://did:plc:zklwlm3d5x2jwwyn5eclzm7f/app.bsky.feed.post/3lleud6ki5s25https://bsky.app/profile/cwherrmann.bsky.social/post/3llcbjq74d22xListen to @jyshapiro.bsky.social on the most recent episode of Pod Save the World https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/call-of-duty-dumbass-group-chat/id1200016351?i=100070083053726 Mar 2025 17:07 +0000at://did:plc:zklwlm3d5x2jwwyn5eclzm7f/app.bsky.feed.post/3llcbjq74d22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/cwherrmann.bsky.social/post/3lkvfemjch22oThe 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 https://ecfr.eu/publication/brussels-holdem-european-cards-against-trumpian-coercion/21 Mar 2025 14:11 +0000at://did:plc:zklwlm3d5x2jwwyn5eclzm7f/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkvfemjch22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/cwherrmann.bsky.social/post/3lj3nl3mx622qJamieson 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 https://ecfr.eu/article/facing-trumps-tariff-war-a-defensive-blueprint-for-the-eu/26 Feb 2025 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:zklwlm3d5x2jwwyn5eclzm7f/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj3nl3mx622qhttps://bsky.app/profile/cwherrmann.bsky.social/post/3liwhkqqaqs2x"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 https://blueblaze.substack.com/p/how-the-trump-administration-makes24 Feb 2025 13:33 +0000at://did:plc:zklwlm3d5x2jwwyn5eclzm7f/app.bsky.feed.post/3liwhkqqaqs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/cwherrmann.bsky.social/post/3lik2xmyuws2l"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 https://ecfr.eu/article/letter-from-washington-why-trump-ignores-europe/19 Feb 2025 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:zklwlm3d5x2jwwyn5eclzm7f/app.bsky.feed.post/3lik2xmyuws2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/cwherrmann.bsky.social/post/3lggdv62xhc26"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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNRjDH3zWSU&t=2042s23 Jan 2025 16:54 +0000at://did:plc:zklwlm3d5x2jwwyn5eclzm7f/app.bsky.feed.post/3lggdv62xhc26https://bsky.app/profile/cwherrmann.bsky.social/post/3lbibcyjhds22Oh what could have been. We reap what we sow. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Nov 2024 20:07 +0000at://did:plc:zklwlm3d5x2jwwyn5eclzm7f/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbibcyjhds22https://bsky.app/profile/cwherrmann.bsky.social/post/3lbi3e3xak22eThe 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 comparison21 Nov 2024 18:21 +0000at://did:plc:zklwlm3d5x2jwwyn5eclzm7f/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbi3e3xak22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/cwherrmann.bsky.social/post/3lbhqphncl22fWhat 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. https://ecfr.eu/publication/the-orbanisation-of-america-hungarys-lessons-for-donald-trump/21 Nov 2024 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:zklwlm3d5x2jwwyn5eclzm7f/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbhqphncl22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/cwherrmann.bsky.social/post/3lbf3wcfz322yA 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 https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mileis-austerity-seen-pushing-half-argentina-into-poverty-2024-09-26/20 Nov 2024 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:zklwlm3d5x2jwwyn5eclzm7f/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbf3wcfz322yhttps://bsky.app/profile/cwherrmann.bsky.social/post/3lazehsho2s2pThe 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: https://ecfr.eu/article/up-close-and-personnel-what-donald-trumps-administrative-picks-mean-for-us-foreign-policy-and-europe/15 Nov 2024 21:54 +0000at://did:plc:zklwlm3d5x2jwwyn5eclzm7f/app.bsky.feed.post/3lazehsho2s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/cwherrmann.bsky.social/post/3lazeeyhh322fWe are live.15 Nov 2024 21:52 +0000at://did:plc:zklwlm3d5x2jwwyn5eclzm7f/app.bsky.feed.post/3lazeeyhh322f