Brussels T Bubble / T Bańka Brukselski

Trump is selling the US out in exchange for a ghost, a propaganda caricature of a past that never existed.

Percentage of Global GDP

1980
US - 26%
RUSSIA (USSR) - 10%

2025
US - 25%
RUSSIA - 1.90%

In addition, Russia's GDP is only 6% that of the US and 7% of the EU.

Influencer Paid by Russia Added to White House Press Pool Tim Pool was one of several conservative social media stars who says he was duped into taking Russian money during the election.

UPDATE: “Tim Pool, A right-wing influencer who was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to spread Russian propaganda during the 2024 presidential election has been added to the White House press pool.”

Weird how stuff like this keeps happening.🤷🏼‍♂️

As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia As top Trump cabinet members sent texts in a Signal group chat, CBS News analysis shows one of them, Steve Witkoff, was in Russia.

Unearthed flight data now reveals that a member of the unsecured Trump admin war planning group chat was in Russia during the time it was being used.

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Starlinks for Ukraine are paid for by the Polish Digitization Ministry at the cost of about $50 million per year.
The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.

But this is not true!

The United States did not send $350B to Ukraine. They sent $114B

The EU did not send $100B to Ukraine. They sent $132B.

I feel like here in Europe, the sense of betrayal must be hitting the hardest in London and Warsaw. Without a doubt, Britain and Poland were America's most loyal and dedicated allies in Europe.

A good question

I had to bring this here because it’s so good

Ukrainian cities will be even less safe now that U.S air defence missiles will soon be gone. During WW2 Britain evacuated urban populations into the countryside. I am sure we can provide similar services to Ukrainian women and children.

Investors dare to imagine a world beyond the dollar The US could dismantle its own exorbitant privilege by pushing the big bond market beasts into the arms of others

If the EU could seize this moment, and issue eurobonds, “it would tap in to a deep well of willing buyers keen to trim US exposure”

www.ft.com/content/4ba5...

💎 Ottoman Jewelry, 19th Century #Jewelry

Whatever it is that Trump may be getting out of a deal with Putin, we must make sure to burn it to the ground.

🧵The intersection of the Musk & Putin agendas are coming into focus. Here's what I think is happening. I hope I'm wrong.

Key to understand:

1. Trump=POTUS in Name Only (PINO), while Musk runs the US day to day.

2. Musk & Putin put T in office; many of his actions now are repayment of that debt.

A news item about JD Vance, a bearded disgrace of a man. The headline says, ‘Vance flees to undisclosed location after protesters disrupt Vermont ski trip’.

“If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you.” - JD Vance, Munich, February 2024.

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The shared experience of taking the night train from Lviv to Kyiv is an underestimated factor in building the close relationships between EU, UK, Ukrainan, Turkish and Norwegian leaders that underpin shared efforts towards European strategic autonomy

🎨 Portrait of an Albanian of Cairo, Egypt, 1871 #Cairo #Egypt #Albanian

He is a Robespierre that you hire from a consultancy.
Elon Maximilien McKinsey.

This is a must: #Poland, #Romania and #Ukraine should build own nukes with #French and #Ukrainian technology. In the meantime we should share what France and UK have. The independent Europe.

🇹🇷 Average Turkish person eats 199.6 kg (440 lb) of bread per year i.e., 546 grams of bread every single day!

Turkey is followed in bread consumption by 🇷🇸 Serbia and 🇲🇪 Montenegro with 135 kg (297 lb), and 🇧🇬 Bulgaria with 133.1 kg (293 lb).

Neville Chamberlain, to do him justice, never amplified under his own byline Hitler's propaganda against the Czechs

🇺🇸🤔 US defense stocks are falling.

Over the month:
• Lockheed Martin: -16.41%
• Northrop Grumman: -13%
• General Dynamics: -10.93%
• Raytheon Technologies: -2.66%

European defense stocks are rising:
🇩🇪 Rheinmetall: +36.4%
🇫🇷 Thales: +22.66%
🇬🇧 BAE Systems: +10.17%
🇪🇺 Airbus: +5.85%

‼️Attention, China!

Russian propagandists are visibly changing their talking points. Now, they’re calling China not an ally, but practically accusing it of betrayal.

"China is selling drones to Ukraine that kill our soldiers! The Chinese are blocking our payments!"

✏️ Drawing of an Ottoman Secondary School to Be Built in Nis Castle (Niš, Serbia), December 13, 1858 #Serbia #School #1850s