The notion that Japan presents a national security threat to the United States is not just wrong, it’s a sop to the stupid kind of protectionism that undermines alliances we need to counter Chinese industrial aggression. I wrote more about it here: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

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Wie beeinflusst die angepannte transatlantische Lage den deutschen #Wahlkampf? Die neue von #daspolitikteil der #roundtable mit Constanze Stelzenmüller , Anna Sauerbrey , Jeff Rathke , Peter Dausend und @heinrichwefing trib.al/IuzGKgc

ominous passage in readout of Rubio-Lavrov mtg What is “mutual geopolitical interest” of the US w/ Putin’s Russia? The geopolitical ambitions of Putin are clear, outlined in Dec 2021 RUS draft treaties: US out of EUR, rollback of NATO to 1997 borders

🎧This week on Brussels Sprouts🎧 🇩🇪James Angelos and Jeff Rathke join Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss Germany's historic election and AfD's best-ever results. cnas.org/publications/p…

Is Black⚫️ (CDU) the New Red (SPD)🔴? In a NEW episode of the Current Account #podcast, Clay sits down with Jeff Rathke, President at American-German Institute, to discuss the results of the recent German elections LISTEN NOW: ow.ly/mhUX50V9uv2

hart aber fair Louis Klamroth Roderich Kiesewetter🇪🇺🇩🇪🇮🇱🇺🇦 Andrea Rotter Ole Nymoen David Matei Jeff Rathke zum.de/Foren/politik/…

“Based on Phil Hegseth’s publicly available resume, his past experience includes founding his own podcast production company, Embassy and Third, and working on social media and podcasts at The Hudson Institute.”

Impt intvu Norbert Röttgen on GER for.pol. under Friedrich Merz chancellorship and U.S.-GER rel: "ready to massively invest in EUR security out of our own strategic interests in response to RUS imperialist war in Europe and in light of the changes we see in the US"

If Trump is serious about tariffs on movies, it's a very dangerous escalation. Tariffs have not traditionally been applied to services, and the United States is a massive net exporter of services. We would be extremely vulnerable to any service-based retaliation.

Ukraine’s SBU said it damaged the bridge between Crimea and Russia, blowing up one of the pillars. Extent of structural damage from the underwater explosion is unclear. t.me/SBUkr/14960

NEW: A top buyer of Trump's memecoin has ties to the Chinese Communist Party. He Tianying owned $3.7M of $TRUMP. That got him into a crypto dinner with Trump & a WH tour. Yet the WH is working to revoke visas from Chinese students with Communist ties. nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/…

The resignation of President Jim Ryan is a loss for the University of Virginia and the Commonwealth. That the president of a top-ranked, thriving public university would be pressured to resign by the Department of Justice — in order to avoid further harm and harassment from the

Trump announced yesterday tariff rates on many US trading partners - higher than the US has seen in a century. Good time to hear American-German Institute VP Peter Rashish and Bergos Chief Economist Jörn Quitzau with hot-off-the-press podcast on U.S. trade policy👇 bergos.ch/vol-253-us-tra…

Trump gibt Putin 50 weitere Tage zum Nachdenken, ob der die Ukraine eventuell ein bisschen weniger bombardieren könnte. So viel zu den Hoffnungen im Westen, Trump hätte die Nase voll von Putin. 30 % Zölle gegen die EU, keine Zölle gegen Putin, so sieht der US-Seitenwechsel aus.

The first Trump administration indicted 12 Russian GRU intelligence operatives for “committing federal crimes that were intended to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.” justice.gov/archives/opa/p…