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Hibernia me genuit, Germania Italiaque me docuit, Belgia me recepit, Norvegia me tenet.
For tomorrow:
US population: 340 million EU Pop. 450 M EU+UK+UKR 565 M Russia 143M
US GDP 29 Trillion EU GDP 20 T EU + UK 24 T Russia 2.2 T
What does neither the US nor Europe get?
Trump thinks Russia is the only other superpower.
Europe thinks it’s not a superpower.
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b. contributing to Ukraine’s economic recovery. A good start would be to seize immobilised Russian Central Bank assets in Europe and use them to fund reconstruction, with a focus on critical infrastructure and the military industrial complex; 12/16
For some reason this called to mind an earlier mystery. “According to Fascist race-theory the genuine Aryan must be ... BLOND LIKE HITLER SLIM LIKE GÖRING BEAUTIFUL LIKE GOEBBELS.” Soviet poster, 1941
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A whining, needy, defensive misogynist
Merci et bravo Madame !
European speaking point nr. 1 should be that endorsing Putin’s demands means less chance of the coveted Nobel. (He’s not getting one anyway, but let him wallow in the delusion that he should.)
On #Ukraine, Trump’s USP is Unconditional Surrender to Putin.
Details of post-summit call were leaked in which US president supports plan for Kyiv to give up Donbas region
Trump told European leaders he believed a rapid peace deal could be negotiated if Mr. Zelensky agreed to give up the rest of the Donbas region to Russia, even those areas not occupied by Russian troops, according to two senior European officials briefed on the call.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
So both Putin and Trump went to an AF Base in Alaska. Each had a set of demands. Trump accepted all of Putin's demands and then said he would convince Ukraine and Europe to accept them. And both then went home. Do I have this right?
