@criticalcarra@HunterBiden trump has been cringe af for a long time but he did have some decent notions
unfortunately his objectives were thwarted 90% during his first term and his second term is entirely overshadowed by the ill fated and foolish attack on iran
The Jewish Bankers Who Funded the Invasion That Created the Modern World
In 1688 William of Orange needed seven million guilders to invade England and overthrow a Catholic king. He did not have it. So he went to the Sephardic Jewish bankers of the Dutch Republic, and what happened next changed the financial architecture of the entire Western world.
Francisco Lopes Suasso, a Sephardic banker whose family had fled the Spanish Inquisition, handed William two million guilders with no contract and no collateral. When asked what security he required Suasso answered: if you are victorious you will surely repay me, if not the loss is mine. A two million guilder bet on the outcome of an invasion with nothing in writing.
Suasso was not alone. The Jewish firm of Machado and Pereira had been the primary military contractors for the Dutch Republic's land forces since 1674. Moses Machado and Jacob Pereira supplied and provisioned William's army for the English campaign. Another Sephardic contractor, Jeronimo Nunes da Costa, handled the transit costs of the reinforcement army that joined the invasion. William of Orange was financed, supplied, and provisioned by a network of Sephardic Jews operating out of The Hague.
The invasion worked. James II fled to France without a fight. William and Mary took the English throne in what history calls the Glorious Revolution. And then William imported the Dutch financial system that his Jewish bankers had helped build.
Six years later in 1694 the Bank of England was founded, modeled directly on the Bank of Amsterdam. Parliamentary control of taxation and spending became permanent. Public debt became a financial instrument rather than a royal embarrassment. England went from a country where kings could bankrupt the treasury on impulse to a country with a functioning credit system capable of financing wars, colonies, and an industrial revolution that remade the planet.
The Sephardic bankers who bet on William's invasion did not just fund a change of king. They funded the institutional framework that produced the British Empire, the modern bond market, and the financial system the entire Western world still operates inside today.
Suasso asked for no security. He got the modern world in return.
Barcelona lost Messi in 2021 because they were €1.2 billion in debt and La Liga slashed their wage cap from €347 million to €97 million. The emergency fix was fielding children. Four years later those children won La Liga, and one of them carries a €1 billion release clause.
The cap crisis meant Barcelona couldn't register signings. Academy kids on entry-level wages were the only players they could afford to put on the pitch. So Lamine Yamal debuted at 15 years and 9 months. Pau Cubarsí debuted at 16. Gavi, Pedri, Balde, and Casadó all got minutes a healthy club would never have risked on teenagers.
Then the desperation play turned out to be the best roster strategy in football. Yamal joined at age 7 from CF La Torreta, a local youth club. Transfer fee zero. Barcelona turned down a €250 million bid for him. He made 106 senior appearances before turning 18. Messi made 9.
The cap math makes it even better. Real Madrid operates with a €761 million squad cost limit. Barcelona's is €432 million. They won the league anyway, because half the starting lineup was developed in-house at academy cost.
Messi's final Barcelona contract was worth over €500 million. His replacement cost nothing.
Those 11-year-olds in the video are the next batch. A pipeline that began as a bankruptcy workaround is now the entire plan.