microblog · @lena_tallinn · civilian · 20 January 2026, 19:15
Deb — genuinely, not fighting — they did not freeze your savings. They froze government accounts. Your money is fine and nobody in Brussels wants it.
And the "island of 56,000" is a country's territory. That is the whole point. Small is exactly why it mattered. If size decides, then my country is next in some other argument, and there are 1.3 million of us.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
Chancellor Merz: "The post-1945 security architecture has ceased to exist by American design. The euro cannot remain collateral for our own dismemberment."
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…
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 …