2025-12-22 19:56:26
Redaktionspause https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10247
Redaktionspause https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10247
Top Catholic cardinals say U.S. foreign policy raises moral questions
Echoing concerns of Pope Leo XIV over a new era of unilateralism and warfare,
the three highest-ranking U.S. Catholic archbishops on Monday said
“the moral foundation for America’s actions in the world”
has been thrown into question by a resurgence in the use or threat of military force,
including in Venezuela and Greenland.
The archbishops,
Cardinals Blase Cupich of Chicago,
"America Must Reject Trump’s Corrupt Foreign Policy.
A call to action as Trump pressures Ukraine to capitulate to Russia"
https://www.avindman.com/p/america-must-reject-trumps-corrupt?utm_campaign=post&showWelcomeO…
RFE/RL Hungarian service Szabad Európa, which was restarted in 2020, shuts down after USAGM's Kari Lake claimed it harmed Trump's foreign policy in a key ally (Anita Komuves/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
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Auf dem Weg in die erste Rüstungsliga (III) https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10272
You have to realize this: An American #investment banker—lacking any foreign policy experience, an amateur at best—Steve #Witkoff, and a Russian investment banker, Kirill Alexandrovich #Dmitriev—also neither a dip…
Rüstungsmilliarden, Sabotage und Meinungsfreiheit https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10246
„Deutsche Unternehmen kontrollieren fast alle Glieder der globalen Lebensmittelketten mit und stützen so ein agrarindustrielles Produktionsmodell, das fatale Auswirkungen auf Mensch, Tier und Umwelt hat. Dagegen formiert sich Protest.“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/1026…
Rubio on Ukraine:
“It’s not our war. It’s a war on another continent,”
Meanwhile USA bombs Syria.
Schrödinger's foreign policy.
Five key takeaways from US State Secretary Rubio’s year-end briefing | Politics News | Al Jazeera
https://www.
Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
He was born January 15, 1929.
He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
He was just 39 years old.
While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader,
he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign
to address issues of economic justice.
Dr. King was also a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy an…
Trump Will Keep Nobel Peace Prize Medal Offered by María Corina Machado (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/foreign-policy/venezuela-maria-corina-machado-offer-give-nobel-peace-prize-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p140#a260115p140
„Jeffrey Epstein was a warlord. We have to talk about It. Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy“ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeffrey-epstein-israel-foreign-policy-elite/#<…
„Die Souveränität der EU erhalten“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10269
In English. Hmmm...so someone particular could understand?
The pope in a major foreign policy address blasts how countries are using force to assert dominion
https://religionnews.com/2026/01/09/the-pope-in-a-major-foreign-policy-address-blasts-how-countries-are-using-force-to-assert-dominion/
There is is one constant in US foreign policy now, betraying Ukraine and Europe, assisting Russia.
Der Drang der US-Milliardäre zur Weltmacht https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10271
War Powers Resolutions Keep Failing. Democrats Are Going to Try Again Anyway. (Hamed Ahmadi/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/foreign-policy/war-powers-resolution-trump-democrats-iran-greenland-cuba-columbia
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p28#a260116p28
The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela
#Trump
#Putin https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/putin-russia-us-foreign-policy-venezuela?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Democracy Now! speaks to William Hartung about his new book
“The Trillion Dollar War Machine”
and who profits from the United States’ runaway military spending that fuels foreign wars.
Hartung says that U.S. policy is “based on profit”
and calls for a rethinking of our foreign entanglements.
“We haven’t won a war in this century.
We’ve caused immense harm.
We’ve spent $8 trillion,” he says
„Wages not Weapons“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10243
Trump underwater on issues that got him elected, polling shows (Julianna Bragg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/15/trump-ice-foreign-policy-economy-immigration-polls
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p7#a260116p7
Trump Cybersecurity Policy Is Indistinguishable From A Foreign Attack - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/11/trump-cybersecurity-policy-is-indistinguishable-from-a-foreign-attack/
Hague Court of Appeal rules it’s cool that the Netherlands is complicit in genocide.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/6/dutch-court-rejects-bid-to-halt-arms-exports-to-israel-over-gaza-war
"The Department of Homeland Security is directing border-patrol agents to screen all foreign travelers with facial recognition tools as they enter and leave the U.S., seeking to identify immigrants who entered the country illegally or overstayed visas, the agency said"
http…
Kriegsübungen in Grönland (II) https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10267
Corporate and foreign interests that once relied on paid Washington lobbyists are now spending heavily on pro-Trump influencers, often without disclosures (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/washin
Rezension: Alternative Defence Review https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10245
Under new US foreign policy, multiparty European democracies are not free enough because they exclude Nazis, but actual monarchies in the Gulf are free enough for us.
Weeks after the Trump administration lowered minimum wages for some temporary farmworkers,
the Trump Organization sought approval to hire 36 foreign workers for its Virginia winery at a pay rate nearly $2 an hour below what it previously offered
—highlighting the company’s continued reliance on overseas labor even as Donald Trump argues Americans are being pushed out of jobs
Auf dem Weg in den Krieg https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10241
Frohe Weihnachten ;-)
https://sh.itjust.works/post/52138124
Trump pauses all Somali aid programs over reports US-funded warehouse destroyed (Molly Parks/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign-policy/4410431/trump-pause-somali-aid-warehouse-destroyed/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p130#a260107p130
The US House has approved a sweeping defence bill
that bolsters Europe’s security,
in what appears to be sharp rebuke to Donald Trump’s mounting threats
to downgrade Washington’s ties to traditional allies and Nato.
The bipartisan vote came just days after the publication of a White House national security strategy
that said Europe faced “civilisational erasure”
and made explicit Washington’s support for Europe’s nationalist far-right parties
– rattl…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
@carlos@perceptiveconstructs.comTrump's foreign policy vision: Make Europe white again (Andrew O'Hehir/Salon)
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/07/trumps-foreign-policy-vision-make-europe-white-again/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p59#a251207p59
„Eine neue Ära der Führung“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10238
Zwischen den USA, Russland und China https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10239
Trump Pivots Second Term Toward Foreign Policy (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-pivots-second-term-toward-foreign-policy-08d66474
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p143#a251030p143
Self-interest over ideology
as disparate inner circle shapes Trump foreign policy
Administration officials,
his family and even
Mar-a-Lago guests
wield outsized influence
on a mercurial president
“Trump is more accessible to a broader range of voices than any president in recent history,”
said Ian Bremmer,
president of the Eurasia Group.
“He’s on his phone constantly and people
– friends, business associates, media
– co…
Der nächste regime change https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10264
Threatening Nigeria? Leaving Romania? The Chaos of Trump's Foreign Policy (Mark Hertling/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/nigeria-romania-trump-foreign-policy-chaos
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p36#a251104p36
Der Notstandsparagraph der EU https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10236
Lebensmittelmacht Deutschland https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10265
Trump's Says the U.S. Is Devising a 'Formula' for Venezuelan Oil Revenue (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/foreign-policy/trump-devising-formula-venezuelan-oil-revenue
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p142#a260109p142
The euphoria on the right after the unjustifiable kidnapping of Nicolšs Maduro has ended an era of illusion.
No more is Donald Trump’s movement interested in posturing for the credulous as restorers of peace.
No more is there outward deception or internal struggle over the meaning of Trumpist foreign policy.
There is only violent, extractive dominance politics abroad
to match violent, extractive dominance politics at home.
America First is moving closer to i…
Putin playing Trump,
"Kremlin foreign policy Yuri Ushakov said that on the call with Putin today, Trump had been “shocked” by the Russian claim that the Ukrainians had targeted Putin’s Novgorod residence, in northwestern Russia."
https://diplom…
Der Spannungsfall https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10198
New National Security Strategy Is Heavy on Rhetoric, Light on Detail (Mark Hertling/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-national-security-strategy-ways-means-ends-trump-foreign-policy-china-iran-russia-north-korea
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p139#a251208p139
"The calls are part of a broader strategy by the Trump administration to ... turn the state department into an anti-immigration machine. "In the Trump administration migration issues have become a key pillar of our foreign policy, and this may be here to stay for the rest of the century,” a senior state department official told The Guardian."
**Stephen Miller holding secret calls with diplomats every day to push Trump’s immigration agenda across the globe**
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-immigration-diplomats-secret-calls-b2856464.html
Der Krieg im Innern https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10261
“Pete Hegseth, much like the president he serves, sees himself as, essentially, above the law, as unconstrained by legal procedure.”
Foreign policy analyst Matt Duss discusses the brewing conflict within the Trump administration over the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
including his involvement in a leaked announcement of U.S. strikes on Yemen in March
and the chain of command behind U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Trump fills end of 2025 with foreign policy (Brett Samuels/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5665946-trump-foreign-policy-focus/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p10#a251230p10
Auf der Suche nach Alternativen https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10260
Stephen Miller Offers a Strongman's View of the World (Katie Rogers/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/us/politics/stephen-miller-foreign-policy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p154#a260106p154
Neuer EU-Geheimdienst in Planung https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10197
A digital pass available through the reservation site Recreation.gov includes “America-first pricing” at some parks.
Starting on Jan. 1, nonresidents without an annual pass will have to pay a $100 surcharge to enter 11 of the most-visited places in the system
https://www.<…
„Kein Platz für Brandmauern“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10195
Deutschlands Rüstungssystemhaus Nummer eins https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10234
Trump declared a national emergency to shield Venezuelan oil revenue held by the U.S. government from seizure by private creditors,
framing it as critical to U.S. national security and regional stability
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/10/trump-venezuela-oil-natio…
Die Militarisierung der Karibik https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10192
Trump Says U.S. Has Captured Venezuelan President Nicolšs Maduro (Jasmine Wright/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/foreign-policy/maduro-venezuela-captured
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p52#a260103p52
Konkurrenz am E-Auto-Knotenpunkt Ungarn https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10233
Iraq War critic, Venezuela mission defender: Vance's foreign policy journey (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/11/jd-vance-venezuela-america-first/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p22#a260111p22
Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, according to a transcript of the Oct. 14 call published by the Bloomberg news service,
advised Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov that Putin should call Trump to congratulate him for the Gaza peace deal,
say Russia had supported it and that he respects the president as a man of peace.
“From that, it’s going to be a really good call,” Witkoff said according to the transcript.
When asked by Russian state media to comment on Bloomberg’s…
Übernahmen in Deutschland https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10231
Den eigenen Gipfel boykottiert https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10190
Five Questions About American Foreign Policy (Daniel W. Drezner/Drezner's World)
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/five-questions-about-american-foreign
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p26#a251130p26
Berlin spielt va banque https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10230
Der neue Transatlantikpakt https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10228
Cracks in Democrats' Venezuela response reveal foreign policy muddle (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/08/trump-democrats-divided-venezuela/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p14#a260108p14
While the US can protect security in Europe and deserves our undying gratitude for having done so for the last 80 years,
Europeans cannot protect democracy in the US.
They can and must, however, protect liberal democracy in Europe,
which risks becoming a collateral victim of Trump’s domestic and foreign policy agenda.
What happens in America doesn’t stay in America.
It is often a precursor for trends in Europe.
Just as the
Indien unter Druck https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10187
Die Partei der neuen Ordnung https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10251
Trump, Long Erratic on the World Stage, Reaches a New Level (David E. Sanger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/us/politics/trump-erratic-foreign-policy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p50#a251026p50
Die Unterwerfung Lateinamerikas https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10250
Kampf um die digitale Souveränität https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10186
From Ukraine, the Baltic states, and Poland
to Taiwan and Japan,
potentially vulnerable nations are all drawing the same uncomfortable conclusion from the past year
—that survival in Trump’s new world order no longer depends on old-fashioned U.S. guarantees
but on making yourself too painful to attack.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly acknowledged in December that NATO membership,
a cornerstone of his country’s strategic aspirations since th…
„Kein Grund für Asyl“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10185
Koloniale Ambitionen https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/10248
Von Drohnen- zu Bootsmorden https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10225
„Pflicht zum Generalstreik“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10227
Wirtschaftsmacht im Abstieg (II) https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10184
It’s sometimes said that presidents pivot toward foreign policy in their second terms.
Unburdened by the prospect of having to face voters again, and sometimes opposed by a hostile Congress, presidents often go overseas in search of a legacy.
If the past week or so is anything to go by, Donald Trump is doing the same.
My colleagues Shelby Holliday and Lara Seligman reported exclusively Tuesday that a large number of U.S. troops and special-operations aircraft have deployed…
„Wunsch nach klarer Friedenspolitik“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10176
„Konstruktive Kräfte“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10182
Deutschlands Wasserstoffwette https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10224
Auf dem Weg in die erste Rüstungsliga (I) https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10223
A year into Trump’s second term
MAGA’s internal contradictions can no longer be ignored.
The movement that had promised an end to foreign adventurism has found itself torn between an alliance of ideological noninterventionists and realists and a hawkish national security establishment.
Trumpism promised a revival of domestic manufacturing,
yet neither the president nor his advisers have decided whether this means tariffs, industrial policy, reviving organized labor,…
Prosecuting the Powerful -- Historical data shows putting leaders on trial is a healthy democratic practice. (Foreign Policy)
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/democracy-prosecution-crimes-sarkozy-trump-berlusconi/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p82#a251028p82
Die weiße Zukunft des Westens https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10221
Transatlantische Weltraumrivalen https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10179
Kriegstüchtige Geheimdienste https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10177
Rezension: Gewerkschaften in der Zeitenwende https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10175
Die ultrarechte Renaissance des Westens https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10173
Am kürzeren Hebel https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10171
Von der Ost- an die Nordflanke https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10168