sam

every generation gets a "where were you when" and mine is going to be "in the break room, on my phone, on a nine hour shift, watching the reserve currency get frozen by belgium"

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…

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.

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…

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.

Bundeskanzler

Chancellor Merz: "The post-1945 security architecture has ceased to exist by American design. The euro cannot remain collateral for our own dismemberment."

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 …