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Awesome troll account!

Check out his pinned post: https://x.com/eurofounder/status/1993748588707664325

For years I have owned some international stock mutual funds.
I got out of all of them; I'm selling the one in a taxable account bit by bit.

MolotovCocktail says

Europe isn’t afraid it can’t catch up, Europe is afraid the mask has slipped. The world can finally see what the continent has become, a former power now reduced to a dependent market, a protectorate of America, and a future mortgaged on the altar of its own imperial delusions. The real panic in Europe is the horror of realizing no one even pretends Europe is a player anymore. And now that the bill for decades of outsourced power has arrived, Europe simply can’t pay it.

Europe performed the rituals of sovereignty while surrendering the substance of it. Nord Stream was sabotaged, Europe bowed. Its industries were gutted by U.S. LNG and green-tech protection rackets, Europe again submitted. DC imposed tariffs that would spark escalation elsewhere, Europe swallowed them. Meanwhile China floods its markets with cheap goods, Russia rewrites Eurasia’s destiny, and the U.S. writes a Ukraine peace proposal without even pretending to consult Brussels. Europe wasn’t sidelined. It was never in the room.

What truly terrifies European leaders is that Trump will download the humiliation of Ukraine’s defeat onto Europe. The U.S. will walk away claiming it tried its best. Europe will be left holding the corpse of a proxy war it could never win, defending a narrative it no longer believes, and answering to populations who will ask why their industries, incomes, security, and futures were sacrificed for someone else’s geopolitical adventure. There will be hell to pay.

Europe is thrashing because it senses the end. For years it convinced itself it was shaping events in Ukraine. Now it discovers it was the collateral. America will cut a deal with Moscow that secures American interests, Beijing will cut deals that secures Chinese markets, Moscow will secure her leadership position in the multipolar world. Europe will get what it always gets, the bill.

The WSJ article reads like a continent waking from a 30-year hallucination. The “battle lines of a new world order” aren’t being drawn, they were drawn long ago. The U.S. and China negotiate trade architecture without Europe. The U.S. and Russia security architecture terms without Europe. Even Xi–Trump summits reshape European fate more than any EU decision does. Europe is in the room only as ornamental furniture.

And yet the delusion persists that a “new Europe” can arise through more committees, more pooled funds, more bloated defense spending, more wooden speeches about strategic autonomy. But power is not manufactured by speeches, it is earned through confrontation, absorbing cost, and consequence. Europe chose cowardly submission over sovereignty, bureaucracy over strategy, and ideology over survival. It dismantled its own energy base, outsourced its security to Washington, and built its prosperity atop a German export engine powered by Russian gas and Chinese markets, both virtually gone.

The result? Europe is now the world’s first post-industrial museum piece: expensive, slow, unstable, overregulated, and terrified of admitting that its fate is no longer its own.

Trump’s dismissive line... “Europe is not telling me what to do” – wasn’t arrogance. It was diagnosis. The U.S. no longer sees Europe as a junior partner, it sees it as ballast. China sees it as a weakening market. Russia sees it as a problem.

This is why the panic feels existential.
This is why EU elites speak of “irrelevance” and “dangerous times.” This is why even Trump meeting Putin is portrayed as a catastrophe, because Europe knows the great powers are negotiating their futures without them.

This is Europe’s tragedy, it marched into a great-power era insisting it still mattered, and emerged as the only power willing to bleed, pay, and obey for a war that wasn’t its own. The U.S. walks away. Russia surges. China rises. And Europe, stripped of industry, energy, and agency, is left staring into the mirror of history asking:

How did we become the continent that destroyed ourselves so others could play the game?

https://x.com/IslanderWORLD/status/1994821348820918675

My friend is the highest paid developer in Amsterdam

Makes an eye-watering €57,000 a year

After taxes nearly €23,000

We were at the bar and the American guy sitting next to us spit out his beer when he heard this

“That’s a 50% tax rate!” he loudly screamed

“Actually 56% with social contributions,” my proud Dutch friend corrected him

“Plus 21% VAT on everything I buy”

“Bro you guys are really poor in Europe lol”

Me and my friend look at each other in disbelief

First of all, €57,000 is an extremely high salary for an engineer in Netherlands

Second, little does that barbaric yankee know, my friend just got promoted to the CTO

His new salary?

€61,000

How is that for "really poor"?

This is what sustainable tech wages look like

I hope my startup will continue to grow so I can pay my engineers such high salaries as well.

https://x.com/eurofounder/status/1995905048338202963

Just discovered my 19 year old daughter has an OnlyFans account

I was devastated

She clearly must not be registered as a sole proprietor with the the German Trade Office

I sat her down and asked how much she'd made

She said €4,200

I nearly collapsed

That's at least €1,890 in unreported VAT obligations

She started crying but I did the only thing a good father could do

We spent the entire weekend filling out forms together

She's now fully compliant with a business registration and tax ID

Makes €340/month after taxes and social contributions

I've never been more proud of her

Only 19 and already an online entrepreneur

She has a bright future ahead of her.

https://x.com/eurofounder/status/1996219118551273491?s=20

How Europeans See The European Union



How Everyone Else Does

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-strategy-document-says-europe-risks-civilisational-erasure-2025-12-05/

Europe faces "civilisational erasure" and must change course if it is to remain a reliable ally for the United States, according to a U.S. National Security Strategy posted on the White House website. ...

"Our goal should be to help Europe correct its current trajectory," the document said, adding that it wanted to "work with aligned countries that want to restore their former greatness". ...

Some of the language in the document recalled a speech by U.S. Vice President JD Vance in Munich in February, which caused shock across European capitals. Vance said he worried most about a "threat from within" Europe and what he said was a retreat from values shared with the United States.

The strategy document said the United States remained "sentimentally attached" to European countries including Britain and Ireland and said the "character of these countries is also strategically important".

As well as pointing to Europe's sluggish economies, it accused the European Union of undermining political liberty and sovereignty, censoring free speech, suppressing political opposition and pursuing migration policies that were "transforming the continent".

If present trends continued, Europe would be "unrecognisable" in 20 years or less and it was "far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies," it said.

The document said it was "more than plausible" that within a few decades some NATO members would become "majority non-European" and it was "an open question" whether they would see the alliance in the same way.

Britain and Ireland now have a common set of enemies: Soros, globalists, and the leftist women who vote to destroy national borders.

“ Britain and Ireland now have a common set of enemies: Soros, globalists, and the leftist women who vote to destroy national borders.”

That’s just it - even leftist California voted yes on prop 187. Whenever the population is given say, immigration boosters lose. That’s why open borders is a top-down initiative, discussed and promoted as inevitable, to cow the popular response. Like Covid, same playbook.

LOL! Never noticed before how much the Oz hologram looks like a conehead. It was an allegory that even included this feature.

Patrick says

Europe faces "civilisational erasure"

The Euroweenies and their American idiot bots are going absolutely insane over that one on X.

They are also misrepresenting what the report sez "those are fine people"-style.

As a way of trying to be relevant, the EU wants to loan the Ukraine about $250 billion. This will fund the Ukraine's ongoing war. As collateral, they will use the $300 billion in frozen Russian funds. This will be known as a reparations loan.

The US is trying to stop this European stupidity, but we'll see. The Europeans think they can steal $300 billion from Russia because the US will back them militarily.

The question is, "How stupid are they?"

Misc says

As a way of trying to be relevant, the EU wants to loan the Ukraine about $250 billion. This will fund the Ukraine's ongoing war. As collateral, they will use the $300 billion in frozen Russian funds. This will be known as a reparations loan.

Maybe we should let the Euros do that. That $250 billion would buy mostly US made weapons and then we refuse to allow the frozen Russian assets be used to pay it back.

Misc says

The question is, "How stupid are they?"

Europeans trying to derail any US/Russia peace proposals...

In Europe, nobody can hear you scream...

MolotovCocktail says

In Europe, nobody can hear you scream...

A European with a brain:

What Europeans do not fully understand is that American support for Europe and NATO is weak. Mainstream politicians and news media in Europe have for decades been lying to their citizens. They’ve suggested that American commitment to Europe is unconditional and permanent. It’s not. We have our limits, as Trump’s new security strategy explains.

https://open.substack.com/pub/public/p/civilizational-suicide-behind-europes