Germany has issued a formal travel warning for its citizens visiting the United States — a move that would have been almost unthinkable just a few years ago. The advisory cites escalating violence tied to protests and confrontations involving government authorities, raising alarms among European security officials about stability inside the world’s most powerful democracy.

In this episode, Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director at the Counter Extremism Project and a German who lives in the U.S. part-time, talks about why this warning matters far beyond tourism.

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