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To: SmokingJoe

You are shockingly wrong.
Defending the communists and the islamists at every turn and at “what ever the cost” doesn’t honor you.

America built China’s economy. Period.
Just like Europeans built America truly from scratch.
Without European hard working pioneers, and without FRANCE’s massive effort to save America’s independence, there would be no America as we know it today.

America is Europe’s child.
Historically speaking, Europe’s investments in America is so massive, it’s beyond biblical!


31 posted on 11/20/2025 9:38:37 AM PST by USA-FRANCE (Silence against evil isn't neutrality, it's complicity. Oppose the Iran-Russia-North Korea Alliance!)
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To: USA-FRANCE
“America built China's economy. Period.”

Nope.
The Chinese built the mighty Chinese economy.
Through sheer hard work and innovation.

“Just like Europeans built America truly from scratch.”

Nope.
Americans built America from scratch.
That's why America is ahead of Europe in Space, technology, AI etc.
Europe is faded and jaded.
Can't see any European company even on the same planet as Nvidia for example.

“Without European hard working pioneers, and without FRANCE’s massive effort to save America's independence, there would be no America as we know it today.”

Same France that was saved from the Nazis by US troops and money in WW II?

“America is Europe's child.
Historically speaking, Europe's investments in America is so massive, it's beyond biblical!”

Now why don't we talk about the hundreds of Billions probably Trillions of dollars (in today's money) that America has poured into Euro after WW II, starting with Marhsal Aid and then the hundreds of billions of US dollars spent by America in NATO to defend the hapless Europeans since WWII?

32 posted on 11/20/2025 9:56:19 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: USA-FRANCE
As of November 20, 2025, there are 0 trillion-dollar companies in Europe (meaning publicly traded companies headquartered in Europe with a market capitalization of $1 trillion USD or more).

In America:
As of November 20, 2025, there are 10 publicly traded companies headquartered in the United States with a market capitalization of $1 trillion USD or more (commonly referred to as the “trillion-dollar club”). All current global trillion-dollar companies are either U.S.-based or (in rare cases like TSMC or Saudi Aramco) non-U.S., but no non-U.S. company outside those exceptions currently qualifies — meaning the entire active trillion-dollar club consists of these American giants.
Here they are, ranked approximately by current market cap (values fluctuate daily but are all well above $1T as of late November 2025):

Nvidia (NVDA) – ~$4.6–5.0 trillion
Dominant in AI chips/GPUs; briefly the world's most valuable company multiple times in 2025.

Apple (AAPL) – ~$4.0–4.1 trillion
iPhone ecosystem, services, and wearables powerhouse.

Microsoft (MSFT) – ~$3.5–3.9 trillion
Cloud (Azure), AI (via OpenAI), Office, and Windows.

Amazon (AMZN) – ~$2.4–2.7 trillion
E-commerce, AWS cloud, and advertising.
Alphabet (GOOGL) – ~$2.0–2.3 trillion
Google search, YouTube, cloud, and Waymo self-driving.

Meta Platforms (META) – ~$1.6–1.7 trillion
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and metaverse/AI investments.

Broadcom (AVGO) – ~$1.7 trillion
Semiconductors and infrastructure software (boosted by AI custom chips and VMware acquisition).

Tesla (TSLA) – ~$1.4–1.5 trillion
Electric vehicles, energy, autonomy/robotics; rejoined the club solidly in mid-2025.

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) – ~$1.0–1.1 trillion
Warren Buffett’s conglomerate (insurance, railroads, consumer brands); became the first non-tech U.S. company to reliably hit/sustain $1T.

Eli Lilly (LLY) – Just crossed or hovering ~$1.0–1.1 trillion
Pharma leader driven by blockbuster weight-loss/diabetes drugs (Mounjaro/Zepbound).

33 posted on 11/20/2025 10:07:12 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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