Louis Goulet 🇪🇺

CEO of @noyoco_studio Reinventing Europe through Sustainability 🇪🇺 « Nothing can resist a determined mind. »

[Louis Goulet 🇪🇺 @LouisGoulet]

I'll leave that here.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

This cartoon says it all. @BillBramhall

[Marcos Agustín @marcosagusstinn]

🇪🇺🇷🇺 Trump is financing Moscow

The Iran war has rescued Putin’s energy revenues.

🔸 The conflict has boosted Russia’s energy revenues by tens of billions.

🔸 Trump has not sanctioned a single additional shadow-fleet vessel this year.

🔸 The shadow fleet generates up to $100bn annually.

🔸 Higher energy prices make tougher sanctions harder to impose.

Ending the Iran war would lower prices and enable a massive crackdown on Russia’s shadow fleet.

This is prolonging Putin’s war and costing innocent lives.

[Marcos Agustín @marcosagusstinn]

🇪🇺🇺🇸 America abandoned Ukraine

Ukrainians will never forget US actions

🔸 US aid to Ukraine has collapsed by 99% since 2025.

🔸 European military aid increased by 67%, filling the gap.

🔸 The US has sanctioned zero Russian shadow-fleet vessels under Trump.

🔸 Over 500 vessels sanctioned by Europe remain untouched by US sanctions.

Russia’s shadow fleet keeps roughly $100bn in annual oil revenues

Europe needs its own military and sanctions capabilities to end its dependence on Washington.

Ukrainians will remember who stood with them.

[SK Media @SpaghettiKozak]

One of the biggest weaknesses of the West is you can be caught dead to rights working on behalf of a hostile nation and still be allowed to run for office.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

McFAUL: If you look at UN votes, Chinese don't vote with Russians when it comes to Ukraine. They always abstain. There're 6 or 7 countries that vote with Russians. Tragically, United States is one of them now. Think about that. We vote in defense of Putin, while Chinese abstain.

[么 ꜱ ᴀ ᴍ ꪜ, @___TheGOOdWitch]

Neil is a scientist, if he saw,evidence of God he would accept it

[Rafik Smati @RafikSmati]

Pendant que les USA préparent l'avènement de la superintelligence et que la Chine aligne déjà des armées de robots humanoïdes, la France débat encore de taxer les riches et de l'âge de la retraite.

Cela me rend en colère et triste pour mon pays.

Le monde de demain se construit sous nos yeux pendant que nous restons enfermés dans les débats du passé.

C'était hier soir chez Sonia Mabrouk sur BFMTV.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

A boy on his bike near Kramatorsk was just murdered by a russian drone. They posted this video of their crime. This is evidence this war has nothing to do with territory. It’s an attempt to wipe out an entire civilian population of an innocent county while the world watches.

[Louis Goulet 🇪🇺 @LouisGoulet]

Abominable. Le meurtre gratuit, froid et assumé de civils innocents.

[Louis Duclos @ObsDelphi]

🇷🇺🇺🇦Un drone russe assassine un jeune ukrainien à vélo.

Le drone s'est levé, a joué puis a frappé le jeune homme. Les Russes ont tout filmé et, ensuite, ont jugé bon de publier la vidéo en ligne.

Cet énième crime de guerre absolument répugnant montre une fois de plus à la fois le quotidien de la population civile ukrainienne dans son propre pays, et surtout la volonté de l'armée russe qui est de toujours cibler les civils et ceux qui ne peuvent pas se défendre.

L'objectif de la Russie est de terroriser les Ukrainiens, de les traumatiser le plus possible afin que plus jamais ils n'osent défier Moscou. Un objectif mis à mal par tous les drones ukrainiens qui frappent la capitale russe depuis des mois.

C'est insupportable de voir ces innocents subir une telle horreur quotidiennement alors que tout se passe sous notre nez, à quelques heures seulement de Paris, Londres et Berlin.

Nous sommes dimanche, sans doute que parmi vous certains iront faire un tour en vélo aujourd'hui. Pensez-y, cela se passe en Europe.

[Louis Goulet 🇪🇺 @LouisGoulet]

@BFMTV Faux. Comme d’hab.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

If the European welfare state looks like a pyramid scheme, its pharaohs are the “baby boomers”. We explain how the cohort has pulled off an intergenerational heist https://t.co/xsHt44r0yU

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Elon Musk spent $290M to elect Trump. Now he wants to spend up to $200M to buy a Senate seat in Texas and keep Republicans in control of Congress.

That’s not democracy. That’s oligarchy.

End Citizens United. Ban super PACs. Get billionaires—from both parties—out of elections.

[Rafik Smati @RafikSmati]

La France emprunte à 4,10%. Du jamais vu depuis la crise financière de 2008.

Ceci n'est pas un accident. C'est la sanction nette et tragique de 50 ans de dérive budgétaire.

Mais ce qui rend la situation actuelle particulièrement explosive, c'est qu'elle survient précisément au moment où le capital mondial redevient rare et disputé.

Pendant 15 ans, la France s'est en effet endettée dans un monde où l'argent était abondant et mal rémunéré. Dans ce monde-là, la dette française était un placement prisé : un peu mieux rémunérée que l'allemande, avec un risque perçu comme quasi nul. On n'avait même pas besoin de séduire. On se servait.

Problème : ce monde est mort.

L'IA aspire désormais des quantités gigantesques de capitaux. 4 entreprises américaines vont investir plus de 700 milliards de dollars cette année. 2 milliards par jour ! Et les géants de la tech empruntent massivement sur les marchés obligataires.

Dans le même temps, les USA émettent toujours plus de dette. L'Allemagne investit massivement. Le Japon sort de 30 ans d'argent quasi gratuit et ses taux à 10 ans approchent 3%. Du jamais vu depuis 30 ans.

Les marchés de capitaux sont mondiaux et liquides. L'argent va là où le couple rendement/risque est le plus favorable. Point.

Et c'est là que le problème français devient vertigineux. Pendant que le monde basculait, on n'a rien changé : dette en hausse, déficits chroniques, dépenses jamais maîtrisées, instabilité politique installée, confiance qui s'érode...

Hier, la France pouvait encore demander : « Combien voulez-vous pour nous prêter ? »

Demain, la question sera bien plus cruelle : « Pourquoi vous prêter, à vous ? »

Pourquoi financer un État qui refuse de se réformer, quand le même capital peut financer la révolution technologique, une Amérique qui paie mieux, un Japon redevenu attractif ou des voisins européens jugés plus solides ?

Nous sommes, je le crains, à des années-lumière des sujets qui occuperont les débats de 2027.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

America is behaving like a country owned by Moscow. The man overseeing Donald Trump’s White House ballroom extension was handed a diplomatic passport, briefings and a security detail, then sent to St Petersburg to hold quiet talks with Kremlin officials, according to an exclusive in the Financial Times.

Rodney Mims Cook Jr, chair of the US Commission of Fine Arts, met senior Putin aide Anton Kobyakov, passed along a “good hello from your friend, President Trump”, and described the roundtable of sanctioned Russian dignitaries as a great homecoming among old friends.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was not even aware of the trip. The State Department, bypassed in favour of the ballroom guy.

No self-respecting nation would accept this. When your interior decorator runs your Russia policy, the question of who actually owns whom answers itself.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Just to clarify, Senator - you did vote to confirm ALL Trump's security-related nominations, didn't you? You have constitutional authority to challenge Trump, not just a Twitter account.

[Dr. Alice Frost @PoliSciChick84]

I really am sick of the argument that our allies have been freeloading. Those arguments are fundamentally flawed and, frankly, not very intelligent.

1. Our allies provide forward bases, ports, airspace access, logistics hubs, intelligence, prepositioning, and other infrastructure that dramatically extend the global reach of the U.S. military. U.S. Transportation Command itself describes allies and partners as essential to America's ability to move forces and supplies around the world. Without that network, American power projection would be substantially more difficult and expensive.

2. Our allies came to our defense after 9/11. NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in its history, and allied troops fought alongside Americans in Afghanistan for nearly twenty years. Some allies paid a very substantial price. Denmark, for example, lost 44 soldiers, giving it a military fatality rate per capita roughly comparable to, and slightly higher by some measures than, that of the United States.

3. Our allies buy enormous quantities of American weapons, technology, and military equipment. Those purchases support the U.S. defense-industrial base, sustain production lines, and create economies of scale. Foreign Military Sales orders can be combined with Pentagon procurement specifically to reduce the unit cost of equipment purchased by the U.S. military.

4. Allied countries also contribute industrial capacity, components, munitions, technology, and joint production to increasingly integrated defense supply chains. Companies such as Rheinmetall and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are part of a much broader allied industrial ecosystem; MHI, for example, produces Patriot systems and has participated in U.S.-Japanese missile production and component programs.

5. Most importantly, our allies are force multipliers. A major war with China would become vastly more difficult without Japanese bases, Australian and other regional access, allied logistics, intelligence, naval and air forces, and industrial capacity. Even the Trump administration's 2026 National Defense Strategy says that allied and partner contributions in the Indo-Pacific will be “vital” to deterring and balancing China.

Alliances have costs. So does having the world's most capable global military network. Calling allies “freeloaders” while ignoring what the United States receives in return is poor strategic accounting and, ultimately, dumb.

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

On Friday afternoon, a regulator Donald Trump appointed approved a bank Donald Trump's family owns, to issue a coin that makes Donald Trump money, under a law Donald Trump signed.

First time in American history.

Dropped at 4pm on a Friday, because they were counting on you not looking.

Here's what they buried:

The OCC — run by Trump appointee Jonathan Gould — granted World Liberty Trust Co. a national trust bank charter. World Liberty is 38% owned by "an entity affiliated with Donald J. Trump and certain of his family members."

That's not my framing. That's on their website.

"It's just a trust charter, it can't take deposits." Correct. It doesn't need to. That's not the business.

The business is USD1, their stablecoin.

You hand them a dollar. They park it in Treasuries. They keep the interest. And under the GENIUS Act — signed by Trump in July 2025 — they're legally barred from passing that interest to you.

All house money.

Friday's charter lets them cut out their middleman and run issuance, custody, and reserves in-house. Fatter margins. Federal seal. Institutional clients.

Now ask where the dollars come from.

A state-backed Abu Dhabi fund settled a $2 BILLION investment into Binance using USD1. World Liberty told Congress the deal likely would've used foreign currency if USD1 hadn't existed.

Meaning: it was routed through the President's balance sheet on purpose.

As of February, Binance held 87% of every USD1 in existence.

Binance's founder was pardoned. By Donald Trump.

Line it up:

→ He signed the law that built the market
→ He appointed the regulator
→ The regulator approved his family's bank
→ The bank prints the coin that pays him
→ A foreign government pumped $2B into it
→ It sits on an exchange whose founder he pardoned
→ The bank's board is chaired by the son of his Middle East envoy

He disclosed $57.4 million from World Liberty on one filing.

Elizabeth Warren: the first president in history to approve, operate, and supervise his own bank.

CREW: the most egregious example yet of the President's businesses profiting off his government job.

Democrats introduced the Ending Presidential Corruption in Banking Act the same day. It bans regulators from chartering banks owned by the president. It will not pass.

Watch who votes against it anyway.

The OCC says career staff handled the review and everyone met their ethical obligations. Fine. Maybe every signature was clean.

That IS the story.

Nobody has to break a rule when you own the people who write them.

They did it on a Friday because Friday is where things go to die quietly.

Don't let it.

[Marcos Agustín @marcosagusstinn]

🇪🇺🇨🇳 China is launching a historic assault on Europe.

Overcapacity and FX manipulation are crushing Europe.

🔸 The yuan may now be 20–30% undervalued.

🔸 The EU’s trade deficit with China has surged ~45% since 2021.

🔸 China’s surplus with the EU reached a record ~$1bn every day.

🔸 Germany’s China trade deficit reached ~€55bn in six months.

China combines massive subsidies and cheap credit with currency manipulation to dominate global markets.

China is hollowing out European industry.

Europe needs strong, coordinated action now.

[Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen and Rants" Masala @CarloMasala1]

It fills me with great pain and overwhelming sorrow to have to tell you today that our beloved pivot to Asia passed away after a long illness. We will honor your memory with dignity.

R.I.P (2014-2026)

https://t.co/00OlWbbaaV

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

If Trump were a foreign plant with a mission to make the USA poorer, weaker, more isolated, and do everything in his power to guarantee the next century of Chinese ascendancy, whilst maintaining just enough plausible cover... What would he be doing differently?

[Louis Goulet 🇪🇺 @LouisGoulet]

Nothing.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

If Trump were a foreign plant with a mission to make the USA poorer, weaker, more isolated, and do everything in his power to guarantee the next century of Chinese ascendancy, whilst maintaining just enough plausible cover... What would he be doing differently?