Europe seized $105 billion from Russia to fund Ukraine. Russia nationalized $120 billion in European corporate assets. Siemens. Volkswagen. Shell. Thirty years of investment. Gone. And that was just the opening move.
This is the story of how Europe committed one of the most catastrophic strategic blunders in modern economic history. Not because they tried to punish Russia. But because they fundamentally misunderstood who had more to lose. And Russia didn’t just retaliate. They taught the entire world not to trust European finance.
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