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Europe, the EU & Russian Frozen Assets: Short-Sighted or Necessary?
Vanity | October 23, 2025 | GTP-5

Posted on 10/23/2025 10:54:20 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN

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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

My breakfast routine:

I have breakfast, or not.


21 posted on 10/28/2025 10:09:16 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: kiryandil

“I’ve called him “Blow Jogs” for YEARS.”

I guess your name calling didn’t stop this capitalist! LOL

Also, capitalist Jake Broe [United States Air Force veteran who served as a Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer (13N)] also donates his salary, militay equipment & vehicles to the Ukrainian military. So, he has insideer experience as well to develop his commentary.

Anyway, never hurts to look at alternative viewpoints. :)


22 posted on 10/28/2025 5:26:34 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Please pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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To: moron
Anyway, never hurts to look at alternative viewpoints. :)

It does, if you're believing mouth-breathing idiots.

23 posted on 10/28/2025 5:34:06 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: kiryandil

“It does, if you’re believing mouth-breathing idiots.”

Relax! No worries
Freepers just gently smile and ignore your comments
!


24 posted on 10/28/2025 6:03:23 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Please pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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Don’t feel badly.
Freepers like and accept you just as you are. ❤️


25 posted on 10/28/2025 6:12:14 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Please pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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INTERESTING VIDEO

Russia Made Sanctions WORSE after Bad Diplomacy
Jake Broe **I am a United States Air Force veteran who served as a Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer (13N).
659K subscribers
Oct 28, 2025 8:30 p.m. EST
Length 36:28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyjXpBPuVjs

“Russia’s sanctioned oil giants are having to immediately liquidate their overseas operations in response to new US sanctions. Russian soldiers are now being refused the sale of gasoline in the occupied territories as fuel shortages have gone well past critical levels.”


26 posted on 10/28/2025 6:19:07 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Please pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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To: dimwit

Fascinating that the mouth-breathing idiot Mumsie Klebb responded to a comment anyone else would have ignored...


27 posted on 10/28/2025 6:27:27 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: kiryandil
--- "THE most interesting part of Jake Broe -- found in his own words is an INTERESTING STATEMENT.

"America is now a fascist state and all Free Speech that MAGA does not like will be silenced."

🦋 Bluesky @RealJakeBroe.bsky.social 👉 https://bsky.app/profile/realjakebroe....

28 posted on 10/28/2025 6:42:18 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Trump-hater Mumsie Klebb is hiding in plain site.

I find that most of the zeepers are Trump-haters.


29 posted on 10/28/2025 6:45:29 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Potential Consequences:

Capital flight from Europe

Yeah, I’m gonna keep my cash in a place they’ll steal it.


30 posted on 10/28/2025 6:46:32 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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VIDEO

Last straw: everyone strikes the Russian economy to force it to end the war now
RFU News — Reporting from Ukraine
698K subscribers
10-28-2025 3:00 p.m. ET
Length 5:59
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTm9a2n8h4A


31 posted on 10/28/2025 7:29:19 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Please pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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To: kiryandil
---- "I find that most of the zeepers are Trump-haters."

In addition to the verified remark by Jake Broe that "America is now a fascist state ," one recalls some American generals who were certainly 1) often cited on such threads as these and 2) were open Biden supporters. For verification:

"On Nov. 3, we will be voting for Joe Biden. Some of us have known and others followed Vice President Biden and during his and our years of service to America. He is a kind, compassionate, intelligent, decent man who will help restore the soul of our country. He understands the military and how to keep the United States safe. He also knows how it can be effectively deployed as a deterrent against aggression around the world. Mr. Biden respects the military and like so many who have served, he shares our values."

LTG (retired) Donald M. Campbell was Commanding General of Ft. Hood Texas from 2011-2012 and the Commanding General of U.S. Army Europe from 2012-2014.

LTG (retired) F. Ben Hodges, a native of Quincy, was Commanding General of NATO Allied Land Command from 2012-2014 and Commanding General of U.S. Army Europe from 2014-2017

Ambassador (retired) Robert A. Mandell was U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg from 2011-2015 and is a native Floridian.

Two retired generals, retired ambassador, all with Florida ties: Trump is unfit to lead Tallahassee Democrat, 20 October 2020

Jake Broe and Ben Hodges certainly seem to share values.....
32 posted on 10/28/2025 7:59:15 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Short sighted steps by the USA, beginning in 1999, 2004, 2008 with the expansion of NATO. Also the wars the US started in former Yugoslavia against the voice of the United Nations. We went it alone - convienced of our own moral superiorities’ - trampling International Laws as went about reshaping the world in our own Vision.

This all came to an abrupt end in 2008 with the declarations that Ukraine and Georgia would be brought into NATO, but required US Coups and destabilization campaigns. Russia had had enough. The US unleashed their coups and in 2014 under the supervision of the US, Kiev embarked on ETHENIC CLEANSING OF EVERY TRACE OF RUSSIAN EXISTANCE in Ukraine; this was by design - it was done to force Moscow into a war the US KNEW IT WOULD WIN.

The fly in ointment was 2008 Obama and his purges of the CIA and Defense Department. The woke leadership could not understand the War Plans and OPLANS of a non-Woke Military under political officers the DOD began to fail.

Thirty years is but a generation in the annals of history. In the blink of an eye in historic retrospect, the Clinton Presidency further anchored by the Obama-Biden Admis (Trump is included), the US forced it’s mandates on the world.

The problem is that we broke every conceivable rule, law, treaty, or common-sense evaluation along the way - our cause was just and that was enough.

The weaponization of the USD. SWIFT, G7, the PetroDollar, the TradeDollar, the EUro, and the demands that you are either with us or agianst us could not defeat Russia.

Trump constantly talks about Russia not winning in a week. The slow grinding war Russia used has fractured the NATO alliance, destroyed the economies, and has nearly collasped the financial systems of every country to include the US in the West.

As Trump runs about threatening trade partners with handing over their full USD Currency Reserves for his use, it betrays the invinicable image Trump trys to protray. In retrospec, Trump is the reluctant beggar meeting foreign leaders on their own soverign soil, asking for their foreign currency reserves at the very moment none of the will buy US T-notes. The Dollar is becoming radioactive. Printing QE or just printing since December 2007/Obama has inflated the dollar 3% a year hollowing out the middle class. Today Trump is still printing 1T every 90 days; yet he will also print another 1-3% QE nonstop to replace the Treasury Notes that used to fund the USG.

America has cheated the world. Trump is full of himself when he says the world by trading with us literally stole form us their foreign currency reserves - demanding them back for American use or those countries will face Tariffs above the amount of their foreign currency reserves. Japan 400B, Korea 350B, EU 600/700B.

News from Inida yesterday reports that in partnership with Russia, India will build the new Russian Airliner complete with washing maching schematics. I doubt they will repeat the AirBus debacle whereby one country made the wiring harness 3 meters too short for the planes setting production back over a year in the late 90s.

The US is going to have to live in a world we created.

Trump is learning that lesson this week. He will return home full of BS but in reality NATO has been defeated and this country needs to nurse our wounds and pledge to get along with the world rather than Self Isolate ourselves.

It happens suddendly then all at once... the collaspes in history.


33 posted on 10/30/2025 6:35:58 AM PDT by Jumper
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