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Amaryllis

(11,000 posts)
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 05:42 PM Tuesday

So sorry; i just posted something that was old. I was so excited when i saw it that I dildn't realize it was old. [View all]

So Sorry; see post number 5 from Peace Wave. I just got this today and didn't notice the date.
I debated just taking it down but decided to put the correction here.

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-the-eu-just-handed-ukraine
WAY more at link!

BREAKING: The EU Just Handed Ukraine $300 Billion in Frozen Russian Assets, Considers MASSIVE US Bond Sell-off
Nice to see the EU grow up this week.
Dean Blundell
Dec 11, 2025

💣 Europe’s €210 Billion Kill Shot: The Day the EU Crushed the Trump–Putin Fantasy With One Financial Nuke

There are days in geopolitics when someone gives a speech, signs a treaty, or launches a missile, and history shifts by a few degrees.
And then there are days like this —
When Europe walked into the global vault, turned the deadbolt on €210 billion of Russian sovereign assets, and effectively told Donald Trump: “You don’t run the world anymore, sunshine. And you definitely don’t run our books.”

While America wrestles with a president who thinks tariffs are math and MRI machines are optional, the EU just executed the kind of decisive economic warfare that actually changes outcomes. No tanks. No threats. No grandstanding.

Just money — weaponized with a level of precision autocrats can’t counter.

And that’s the whole story:
Europe finally learned how to crush Trump and Putin where it hurts most — in their wallets.

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