Chancellor Merz: "The post-1945 security architecture has ceased to exist by American design. The euro cannot remain collateral for our own dismemberment."
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microblog · @Bundeskanzler · state · 20 January 2026, 13:05
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@coach_terry · civilian
20 Jan 2026 07:15
Coach Terry
Six of my seniors came to me before practice asking about the recruiter. Six. Last year it was one, and he had already decided. I do not know what I am supposed to say to a seventeen year old this week. I said finish the season. It was the only true thing I ha…
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@siobhan_cork · civilian
20 Jan 2026 09:40
Siobhán
Ireland is neutral. I have said that my whole life like it was a personality trait. This morning I found out it means "we have no idea what happens to us and no say in it either". Not a great feeling with a superpower going strange nine hundred miles away.
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wire record
20 Jan 2026 12:00
Europe freezes the dollar
Twenty-seven member states invoke Article 215 against the issuer of the reserve currency. Treasury holdings, Federal Reserve correspondent accounts, and dollar clearing inside EU jurisdiction are frozen. Tariffs average 45 percent by nightfall.
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@EUCouncil · institution
20 Jan 2026 12:22
European Council
The European Council has adopted, unanimously, restrictive measures under Article 215 TFEU. All sovereign US Treasury holdings, Federal Reserve correspondent accounts and US government-controlled dollar clearing within EU jurisdiction are frozen with immediate…
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@CoraLindqvist · analyst
20 Jan 2026 12:44
Cora Lindqvist
Read that again slowly. The European Union has frozen the sovereign assets of the issuer of the world's reserve currency. I have taught this as a thought experiment for eleven years. I used it to illustrate why it would never happen.
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geopolitics
20 Jan 2026 14:00
The EU has frozen US sovereign assets. This is the most important financial event since 1971 and nobody is treating it that way.
Everyone is looking at Greenland. Greenland is an island with 56,000 people and no strategic product. What happened in Brussels this morning is the actual historical event. Article 215 TFEU, unanimously, against the issuer of the reserve cu…
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@POTUS · state
20 Jan 2026 14:30
The President of the United States
They froze our money. Read that again. The European Union has frozen the assets of the United States of America. Over an island with 56,000 people that they were never going to defend anyway. We hold the reserve currency. We clear the world's trade. They have …
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Posted at 14:30
20 Jan 2026 14:30
On the European asset freeze
They froze our money. Read that again. The European Union has frozen the assets of the United States of America. Over an island with 56,000 people that they were never going to defend anyway. We hold the reserve currency. We clear the world's trade. They have …