Volodymyr Zelenskyy is huddled with European Leaders at the European Council meeting in Brussels. The key effort by the assembly is how to use frozen Russian assets to give money to Ukraine.
The EU itself does not want to lend Ukraine money directly because people within each nation of the EU assembly do not support giving Ukraine more money. The issue reflects a political disconnect where the EU leaders want to give money that the EU citizens do not support giving.
As a result, the only viable option is for the EU to find a mechanism where seized Russian assets can be disbursed or used as collateral for payments to Ukraine. However, some member states like Hungary, Italy and Belgium are refusing to cooperate with the seizure of the Russian sovereign wealth fund. The problem for Zelenskyy and his friends is simply that without money wars cannot continue.
As noted by Decentralized Media: “What is unfolding in Europe reads less like miscalculation and more like controlled demolition operation. The freezing—and now effective seizure—of Russian-linked assets at Euroclear is not simply a sanction gone too far. It is a deliberate trigger in a broader effort to collapse the European Union’s existing financial architecture and, with it, the London-centered banking cartel that has dominated global capital flows for decades.
That process accelerates the moment Donald Trump removes the United States as the EU’s financial backstop.
Trump’s decision to defund and condition U.S. support for Ukraine did not merely pressure Kyiv. More importantly, his insistence on pursuing a negotiated settlement between Ukraine and Russia threatened to end the war on terms that would devastate European interests. It forced Europe to confront a war it could not afford and a system it could no longer sustain. Without Washington underwriting the conflict, Brussels faced a stark choice: accept a negotiated peace and a financial reckoning or prolong the war long enough to extract what value it could from the system before collapse.
Europe chose the latter.
The Russian assets frozen in 2022 were never meant to be spent. They were never supposed to survive a peace deal. They were leverage—political theater designed to signal resolve while assuming eventual American rescue. But when Trump pulled the plug, those frozen funds became the only available war chest. The moment Europe reached for them; the collapse became inevitable. (read more)
President Trump has told the EU the frozen Russian assets should be used as part of the negotiation for a ceasefire. If the EU announces permanent confiscation of the assets the leverage is lost.
If the EU is not going to accept peace, the only option they have left is to collateralize the Russian assets and loan the money to Ukraine.
Together with Prime Minister of Belgium @Bart_DeWever, we discussed mechanisms for using frozen Russian assets. I understand all of Belgium’s concerns; however, a decision on the reparations loan must be made. It is fair and will ensure long-term predictability for Ukraine.
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— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) December 18, 2025
🇪🇺🇺🇦 “No one will leave the EU summit until the issue of Ukraine's financing is resolved” – Ursula von der Leyen
Ursula is threatening everyone pic.twitter.com/G2Gjm8pHBC
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) December 18, 2025
Careful there, EU idiots…
You’re opening a door…you won’t like what’s on the other side of it in the future.
You have been warned 😎
Ahem, EU,
Don’t poke The Lion when the tail ain’t wagging.
Real good way to get slashed..
What a bunch of ignorant fools the EU leaders are. They are poking the BEAR and the LION at the same time. What intelligent fool would dop that to the 2 mightiest military’s in the world.
“idiots” “ignorant fools”.
Yes.
The European monarchy (incl. the UK) are glaring examples of hundreds of years of inbreeding. I’d bet that “limited genetic diversity” also describes much of the so-called “elite old money” class……
I wonder of war will the muzzie also have to be drafted? I would make them first to show love of new country.
They live in a cloistered world with no conceivable idea of the one the rest of us occupy, GB. Nor do they want to if it can be helped. Not much has changed since Marie Antoinette’s day…for them at any rate.
(I’m off to “eat my cake” now…😎)
Enjoy your cake!
I’m ok with chocolate or angel food cake but admittedly more of a fruit pie aficionado……
However, topping all choices of cake, is Smierkase, my being a Baltimore boy……..
https://www.tasteatlas.com/smearcase
Recipe- https://oldlineplate.com/smierkase-cake-smearcase-cheesecake/
Oh boy!!!!! 😍
How DARE you!!! 😍🎄
(said in my best Greta Thunberg voice of course 😉)
🤣😎
😘!!
The Bear, the Lion, the Chinese Dragon and the Islamic jackals all at the same time.
Europe has a vastly exaggerated estimation of its own negotiating position. They have no cards.
Better The Wolf (when cats’ tails are wagging, they’re about to pounce).
Destroying the trust of the international banking system.
The dollar will be hardest hit.
That does not follow…where do you think the “flight to quality” will be?
And then people wonder why there is a flight to gold, silver and crypto –
As someone wise recently noted…….
This train can’t be stopped!
Euroclear is essential for Belgium’s economy. If Ursula Fond of Lying goes through with this, lights out.
In fact the consequences to the entire western financial system.
Money will flow out of Brussels and the EU countries like an open firehose.
All the more reason to hedge against the side bets that we don’t come out on top, looking down at the EU crawling around looking for crumbs to continue their pitiful existence.
Norway, Austria, UK, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Spain and Denmark all have sovereign wealth funds. Of those, Norway’s is by far the largest at over $2Trillion.
All of those SWFs could become fair-game for asset seizures if they go forward with this crazy plan.
As long as we stay out of it…
They deserve EVERTHING they get….
US out of NATO….
US out of the UN…..
AMERICA FIRST!
Yes…..THIS.
The Lady or the Tiger by Frank R Stockton
Great story, even greater message, with the EU as the princess?
I agree, Betsy, the EU are idiots.
Neither will a good part of the world if they do.
The EU seems bound and determined to rule out a negotiated peace settlement.
If the Euros steal Russia’s SWF, Russia may have no other way to recoup their stolen funds but to directly attack the European fools, crush them, and extract war-reparations from them.
This is supposedly a Proxy War on Russia, but it acts like a Proxy War on America and civilization.
Every policy really seems aimed at hurting the US or destroying Europe.
For example, pushing Russia and China together. Bombing Germany’s gas pipeline. Depleting US armaments. Digital Currency.
Nice follow-up punch just after the fake pandemic.
“Proxy War on America”
Yes, but there’s a basic reason for that.
Criminals rob banks because THAT’S WHERE THE MONEY IS.
Same goes for why the globalists focused on extracting wealth from America….. (it’s where much of the world’s most accessible wealth has been concentrated).
Pres. Trump is the first President to try to reverse that wealth extraction and start rebuilding American wealth with its globally unique middle class.
The EU has run out of money. Our money!
And the Marshal Plan truly has ended. Period!
The US subsidies are done. EU governments are all deeply mired in debt. Their economic prospects are bleak given their Green agenda, soaring energy costs and massive welfare burden.
They are effectively bankrupt already (if they honestly reported assets net of liabilities.)
Oh, they’ll find a way, won’t they.
Forget the fact that their countries are in big trouble and their citizens are under siege.
Their focus must be on keeping this wasteful fiasco going.
Sheer madness.
It’s almost like Too Big To Fail
For some reason, I am reminded of Margaret Thatcher’s quote:
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money”.
So what happens when they run out of Russian money….
We know they will not use their own. (money)
Outrageous. Beware Russia doesn’t someday show up in Brussels to collect the funds due.
Plus interest.
Do they really think Putin is just going to let them take Russia’s money.
Russia doesn’t need to show up in Brussels to collect the recovery of its stolen funds. They just need to walk across their own streets to their own banks and STEAL BACK their funds from the plus trillion dollars of EUROPEAN assets that are held in Russian banks.
The European leaders are complete fools, desperate to hold on to power. They rightly deserve everything they’re about to get.
Once a thief…ALWAYS A THIEF…
Socialists are great thieves….they steal EVERYTHING…..
I hope this whole house of cards collapses on them…..
I’d love to see the PEOPLE in the EU rise up against them….
My Christmas wish….
NO MERCY!
Me too
If the EU seizes the Russian sovereign wealth funds, global credit markets will seize. It does not matter what Frau Blücher says about European perseverance at the summit. They will all not agree, as individual nations need access to the markets.
Western history is replete with European perseverance until the peasants show up at the door.
“History is filled with the wreckage of nations that became indifferent to God and died.”
– Whitaker Chambers
“History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.” — Voltaire
Ah. The famed Crowd of Peasants With Torches™️.
Now you’re making me want to rewatch “Young Frankenstein.” Again.
Love that scene. Big Knockers. Horses reacting every time Igor says Blucher.
So much fun stuff I can’t keep track of Igor’s hump.
The country folk have surrounded the tower in Brussels, and they have lit bonfires in rage and are fighting the police.
From what I’ve read they will not find it easy to seize the Russian funds. They are getting a lot of push back on this from different entities. It seems unlikely they will be able to do it.
It appears to me we are witnessing more of the downfall of the WEF/NWO/globalist empire. They are desperate and trying to invoke desperate measures. Carney is part of this cabal. I hope he loses all his stolen wealth.
This would not be happening without Trump. The world owes him a debt of gratitude. For those who don’t see the relevance to MAGA and America you need to dig a little deeper. This is all about America winning the economic and military war. This is about American security. America benefits most of all and all who align with her will also benefit.
I would think those Russian funds are the result of money invested by people other than Russians. They just might be pi$$ed off.
Very true.
“In the future the EU will own nothing and the rest of us will be happy”
Nice one!
Peter Mandelson and Larry Summer’s Epstein shenanigans could help bring the proxy war to an end. Who knew?
And we’ll have fun fun fun till your daddy takes the money awayeeeeaay!
This could be the best ever result of the Epstein Files kerfuffle.
2 perverts sitting at a bar, wondering why they fell out of grace only because they liked perverting children on a private island in a Caribbean paradise.
This situation if shown in a movie plot would be booed as unbelievable and boring. The EU ‘crats are desperate for relevance and a job. They are not intelligent enough to realize that they have bitten off WAY too much to swallow.
They have survived in the past by dangling money in front of the smaller states. Now there is none. The idea of Theft of Russian money strengthens the US dollar of all things. It also eliminates the idea of a reserve currency in Europe and any independence from the Federal Reserve.
Socialism and green energy have combined with a war and immigration and will reduce Europe again to its’ warring tribal past very quickly. We have no business being involved as the US was created from a previous failed system. We hopefully know better.
The EU in Brussels was happy to steal the money of bank depositors in Cyprus, thereby violating the depositors right to their own money over 100,000 euros. I hope the Russian Federation devastates these thieves.
I’d forgotten about that!
Let them eat cake…
That was baked with all the surplus solar power they will generate during the winter nights.
Out of curiosity, what is the total value, in dollars, of these frozen Russian assets?
Trillions, most likely…
I’ve heard it’s only about $250 billion. Which is about four or five times LESS than the amount of European assets currently frozen in Russian banks.
Obviously, European leaders failed math.
President Trump should make a very strong statement in total opposition to the seizure and distribution of the Russian assets, immediately.
He’s been pressuring them quietly but they’re he’ll bent on destruction
The man was a Fabian and all that goes along with them ?
Even a stopped clock …
The wrong people are able to speak the unconvertable truth sometimes. Shaw’s quote is the truth and that’s what should be emphasized, not who said it.
How long with $200 billion Euros last? Will it extend the war another year? How much will be lost to graft? What happens when those funds run out? What happens to the financial and banking systems in Europe? As a consequence of their actions what will happen to the UK and EU economy and the impact on the peasants?
The coalition of the willing best answer those question before they push for the continuation of the war. The peasants and Islamists may just rise up. The first to rise up against the tyranny, the other to create a caliphate. The UK and EU are playing, not with fire, but something much more dangerous.
“How long with $200 billion Euros last? Will it extend the war another year?”
Two separate questions that can be asked as one:
How many innocent civilians can you kill when your budget is $200 billion Euro?
Well now, lets see, of the $200 billion at least 1/2 will be siphoned off by the EU for future use, graft, paying their own bills, pumping up their own depleted reserves, etc. Of the $100 billion left only 1/2 of that will be directly sent to Ukraine with provisions, fees, and claw backs. Of the $50 billion left the Ukraine elites and bureaucrats will siphon off another 50% leaving $25 billion.
Of that $ 25 billion left the military itself will take 50% to sell to other entities and pad their pockets. Out of the $12.5 billion left, 50% will be siphoned off by the few remaining soldiers still left alive to send to their families that are still left alive to bribe their way out of Ukraine.
Then there’s all the bribe money to go to the 10 million citizens that have already fled Ukraine to get them to vote the right way when/if another election is ever called. Then there’s the…….
Okay, I’d say of the initial $200 billion illegally stolen from the Russians “frozen assets” that Ukraine and the EU will burn through all of it in about 6 months tops!
Just think Ferrari will make millions!
“The issue reflects a political disconnect where the EU leaders want to give money that the EU citizens do not support giving.”
Someone ought to clue Lindsay Graham and her pals into that same disconnect here in America.
Isn’t this something that could start a World War???? I would think so…..This is not good…..
Very good video. I highly recommend it to educate yourself on the “money” war behind the shooting war. England is the real enemy.
Not the people, the government.
I have come to despise Zelensky – for what he has done to Ukraine, for what he is doing now.
The sad thing is, he will just fly away somewhere and retire on stolen money while the people of Ukraine try to figure out how to rebuild their lives. He is truly a despot.
He will be a dead man walking. Nobody will protect him if he leaves to another Country. Somebody will find him and execute him and he knows this.
Interesting article. What does it have to do with the US or MAGA
New here?
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Everything.
Vietnam brought down Lyndon Johnson. Ukraine can bring down America First.
This is absolutely a no go with the Globalists Bankers, Blackrock, JPM, etc. It goes against so many international norms and would upset over a hundred years of global capital markets. It is tantamount to Piracy. Hostis Humani Generis.
Nobody would ever again have confidence in global investing if those investments could be confiscated by a bunch of bureaucrats somewhere. Heck, we even gave Iran its pre-revolutionary money back at some point whether one likes it or not.
I agree here with a…. ( the )….proverbial, “but”…..in that, I feel that we are in uncharted waters culturally and ideologically that I could have never envisioned with this trans nonsense, our judiciary, food supply….whatever….you name it….. list is too long…… and I witnessed the 60’s & 70’s with eyes wide open.
In my case “A pessimist is just an optimist with experience “
It doesn’t make sense why they need this particular money to fund the war against Ukraine. In America if we need $300B we just add it to our tab. No one thinks twice.
We know that NATO’s strategy is to poke Russia in the eye with Nord Stream and the like, until they must fight back, so the EuroDems can have their war yet still say “Russia started it!” Is this designed to be the final poke in the eye that Russia finally can’t tolerate?
If the EU steals these funds, their loss will be much bigger than Russia’s loss.
This is a calculated move on the part of the EU…and hubris.
They think that, when push comes to shove, if they can force Trump to make a binary choice…the EU/Ukraine or Russia…that Trump will choose EU/Ukraine.
And why wouldn’t they think that? Almost our entire Congress, the media, and deep state are on the EU/Ukraine side.
Trump is the ONLY one who is in the way…and they simply cannot fathom a situation where the US would tell the EU to pound sand.
I would love to see it, but I have this uneasy feeling that, in the end, Trump will give in…because the alternative would truly be civilation shifting…a millennial shifting of alliances.
But I have to tell you, the national defense strategy recently unveiled was a massive shot across the bow that gives me hope…
he has to walk away from the eu. the band-aid must be pulled off. and the other globalists want money to be repaid. PT wont have a real choice. im thinking part of the return to normalcy and out from under the boot of england and the eu. the tail has wagged the dog far far too long.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/ukraine-war-hungarys-orban-says-eus-frozen-assets-plans-wont-pass.html
Who is going to loan the EU money against Russian assets they don’t technically own? Are they just going to print the money?
Wow! I watched the full Prometheus broadcast. It was very very good and I found it easy to understand.
“The issue reflects a political disconnect where the EU leaders want to give money that the EU citizens do not support giving.”
Imagine that.
Everyone is ignoring wko might take over from Putin when he leaves.
Maybe don’t poke the bear?
The EU parasites gladly waste US taxpayer money, but not their own. Giving Ukraine money? More like skimming billions and putting it on the US taxpayer’s tab. Now that that’s drying up they are trying to rob Russia. Good luck with that.
If the Ukraine was run by real Ukrainians. Their would be no war and no money. The oligarchs always help each other. At everyone elses expense.
Just think of all the North Korean troops Vladimir Putin could purchase if he could get all that money back.
Just think of all the North Korean troops Vladimir Putin could purchase if he could get all that money back.
Remind me again why WWII was fought? I hear:
“No one will leave the EU summit until the issue of Ukraine’s financing is resolved” – Ursula von der Leyen
If Adolf had survived the vunker I vunder if he vould have veen proud of his protege’s command over a united Europe.
Yes Indeedy, the most important thing to the EU summit is resolving the financing of a non EU country after having driven the EU countries into bankruptcy and trying desperately to hide that fact!
she has nothing, no consensus, no mandate, no authority and needs a majority she will not get. she is now neutering herself and the eu. her last stand.
Trump’s wonderful attempt to end the war with both sides compromising has been diverted by Z and the EU into an attempt to extend the war, blame Russia for not unconditionally surrendering, and rob Russia blind.
Gee, what could go wrong?
From their bluster, it even seems they want to expand the war. Blaming Russia for their actions of course.
It sounds more like the EU is desperate to find a way to get the shooting war started.
They’re desperate to find away to finance their own disastrous decisions that have bankrupted the entire EU and distract their citizens from knowing just how bad their leadership has been.
So yes, off to the war races and financial plundering they go.
Thank Almighty God for President Donald J. Trump!
President Trump has declared war again the Cultural Marxist. Pray hard for his success.
The stark reality is these eurocrats are in way over their head. Are they preparing to send their troops to Ukraine and fight a war there against Russia. What happens when London and Brussels are on the receiving end of a hypersonic missile?
It is a War. And Europe does not want to pay for the war. Europe does not want to pay for its defense. The 5% is somewhere in the future. Europe does not have a functioning military. They most likely lie about the number of troops they have.
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Russia has said the war is existential for Russia.
Can there a clearer picture of a Civilization in Decline? I have only 1 other question for the group. Does Europe have Warriors or is their military woker than ours was?
Much woker
Then it really is committing suicide. Get us out of Europe.
Please let us remember, this was NEVER a war between Russia and Ukraine. This was ALWAYS the CIA’s war against Trump. Always.
There’s something so funny about Ursula trapping these leaders in some conference hall in Brussels
Please do not forget that Europe wants to, specifically: conquer Russia, and transform it into the forty-odd “rump countries” on Victoria Nuland’s map. She already gave each one a name and a flag. And the boundaries are drawn based on natural resource concentrations. Certainly, she thinks that if she can simply steal Russia’s money now, that would facilitate stealing her natural resources later.
“That’s worth going to ‘World War 3’ over,” or so they think. Their present problem is that their “Ukraine proxy” effort has failed completely. They don’t have the military capability that the paper-figures say they should. Their military technology has been out-classed. By their reckoning, they need to draw the United States in to fight their “Grand Military Adventure” for them.
At the root of the problem, it is simply the case that “Europe doesn’t remember” what War actually is. Meanwhile, Russia observes “Victory Day,” with its “ghost regiment” of black-and-white photographs, precisely so that “Russia never forgets.”
Ursula and the limp Eurocrats are obviously poking the Russian bear with this bone-headed move, but that’s not their only problem. Let’s look at the math.
In the 75 years since NATO’s inception since April, 1949, the USA has contributed the lion’s share of defense spending, $22+ TRILLION. With few exceptions, our “partners” have been unwilling to even contribute their “fair”, much smaller, shares.
From Feb 2022 until now, the USA has spent $183 billion in direct aid to Ukraine. However, in that same time frame, we’ve contributed an additional $3.3 TRILLION toward NATO defense.
The frozen Russian assets in the UK total roughly $190 billion. They are largely held at Euroclear, a central securities depository, based in Belgium, HQ in Brussels. The proposal is a 0% (zero) loan to Ukraine, to fund the war through 2027.
This “loan” would be paid back ONLY IF Russia agrees to “reparations” for Ukraine. Anyone with 2 neurons to rub together knows the chance of Putin caving to that absurd demand is ZERO. When, not if, reparations don’t materialize, the loan would be forgiven.
Euroclear is in a bind. If it releases this cash, it risks a run on its other deposits. It also holds deposits in, you guessed it, Russia. Obviously it would forfeit these. And the deposits it holds in other countries would also be placed in a precarious position.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/12/05/reparations-loan-for-ukraine-is-very-fragile-and-risks-investor-exodus-euroclear-warns?utm_source=microsoft&utm_campaign=feeds_allthemes_video&utm_medium=referral
And this:
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/fitch-places-euroclear-bank-rating-watch-negative-over-eus-russian-asset-plans-2025-12-16/
Euroclear could go under. Belgium’s economy could collapse. It would certainly take a huge hit.
All for what? To hand out frozen (stolen) assets to a failed kleptocracy, helmed by a buzzing gnat in stilettos? Virtue signaling is easy when it’s other (USA) people’s money, but when it’s your own, it tends to lose appeal.
$190 billion in Russian assets may seem like a lot. It IS a lot. But compared to what the USA has spent, just since 2022 ($3.3 trillion plus our extra $183 billion infusion), it’s not much. We’ve got ALL the leverage, and it starts with our NATO participation, and funding.
Ursula and her quislings are desperate to keep this war going. Poking the Russian bear in this shortsighted money grab. Lucky for her there are a few vetos (Belgium for one, unless it has a death wish) to kill this plan, and save them from themselves. Until the next dumb move, anyway.
So much effort to keep the killing going. What power does Z have on these leaders. Must be a great dancer.
This is what happens when the leadership of sovereign nations bow their knee to an unelected bureaucracy at the demise of their own national heritage and citizens.
“…the only viable option is for the EU to find a mechanism where seized Russian assets can be disbursed or used as collateral for payments to Ukraine.”
Structure the payment as a personal loan to Zelensky with a promise to repay Russia at a later date and guaranteed by a life insurance policy naming Putin as the beneficiary.
“The problem for Zelenskyy and his friends is simply that without money GRIFTING cannot continue.”
It’s an ugly thing to steal the resources/assets of a country with which we are NOT at war.
I never gave Russia or its people much thought. But the more they do this? The more I like them. I know more and more about the nature of these globalists and what they do and the lives they destroy. In a way, the main reason I became a Trump supporter wasn’t because of the things he said — I wasn’t prepared to hear all of that stuff — I am a Trump supporter because people I do not trust have been attacking him without end as if their lives depended on it.
Of course my support of Trump is now more about his actual policy and actual results because NOW he is very very proven. That they continue to attack him now only hurts the attackers… and the feelings of some hard leftist liberals.
An Aside: Before the election, I told people “before Trump was replaced with Biden, we had $1.99 or less gasoline where we live… If Trump comes back, we will have that back again as well.” What I got was a full and complete denial that gasoline was EVER that low followed by a scoff that Trump would ever come back. I’m watching the prices drop carefully because I’ve got some “I told ya so” moment planned to enjoy.
The EU was going to feed on us until the US collapsed. The EU was going to have Americans die in Ukraine fighting for the EU.
The alliance is dead. The EU was like a bunch of ticks feeding off the host…..Us.
wasn’t sure if fond der lyin’s eyebrows were gonna move at all
No vun vill leave until ve have zee funding!
Ukraine is ’Money Laundering’ on a vast scale.
President Zelensky of Ukraine is a ’Money Laundering’ criminal.