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The Netherlands is still actively importing substantial volumes of LNG.
Official data from Statistics Netherlands (CBS, updated 13 November 2026) shows continued high LNG imports:
- October 2026: 3,075 million m³
- September 2026: 2,321 million m³
- **August 2026**: 2,268 million m³
The United States is by far the largest supplier (e.g. ~2,483 million m³ in October). Imports from Russia have fallen sharply and are now minimal or zero in recent months.
- Gate terminal (Rotterdam my birthplace) commissioned its fourth LNG storage tank on 1 October 2026. This added ~4 bcm/year of regasification capacity, bringing the terminal’s total to 20 bcm/year (the Dutch gas market is roughly 30 bcm/year).
- LNG send-out from Dutch terminals has been running well above historical levels in 2026, helping offset relatively low gas storage inventories ahead of winter.
- In October 2026 the Netherlands was Europe’s largest LNG importer (around 1.68 million tonnes).
- Further expansion is planned at the EemsEnergyTerminal (Eemshaven), with a conditional investment decision and customer contracts running into the 2030s.
LNG remains a core part of the Dutch gas supply mix, and import infrastructure is being expanded rather than scaled back.
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Immigration is a completely different story. What’s happening across much of Europe isn’t just about people looking for a better life,it’s about the systematic erosion of culture, the deliberate division of people, and the long-term consequences of bringing in large numbers who don’t integrate, who bring crime with them, and who are then given rights and political power. Especially over the last couple of years, the scale and the character of the migration have made the problems impossible to ignore.
I looked at the direction things were heading and decided I didn’t want to stay and watch it happen. So I came here.
I learned about Bulgarian history the five centuries under Ottoman rule, the April Uprising, the long fight for freedom, the wars, the communism, the hard years after 1989. The Bulgarian people have been through hell more than once. They were oppressed, divided, almost erased at times, yet they never disappeared. They kept their language, their faith, their identity, and their stubborn will to survive.
That resilience is still here. You can feel it in the people. And I believe the same strength that carried Bulgaria through its darkest centuries can still shape its future if enough people care, if enough people stay, and if enough people refuse to let the country become just another place that loses itself.
That’s why I’m here. Because I still believe Bulgaria can be different. I still believe it can matter.
There is a clear economic linkage.
Germany has provided large scale support to Ukraine while simultaneously absorbing a major energy cost shock from ending Russian pipeline gas imports. Both have drawn on German economic resources (tax revenue, industrial profits, and public budgets).
Scale of German support to Ukraine
- The German government reports roughly €101 billion in total bilateral civilian + military assistance since February 2022 (including future military commitments and support for Ukrainian refugees living in Germany). Military aid is the larger share.
- Independent trackers such as the Kiel Institute put the more narrowly defined bilateral aid (delivered or firmly allocated) in a lower range, roughly €30–42 billion, with military support making up about 80%. Germany ranks among the largest European donors in absolute terms.
- Separately, the federal government spent around €50 billion on domestic energy price brakes and related relief measures after the 2022 gas shock.
Energy-cost impact on German industry
- Stopping Russian pipeline gas and shifting to more expensive LNG drove industrial electricity and gas prices far above pre-2022 levels. They have fallen from the 2022 peaks but remain structurally higher.
- Energy-intensive sectors (chemicals, metals, glass, paper, etc.) saw production fall by about 15% between early 2022 and early 2026, with tens of thousands of jobs lost in those branches.
- Companies repeatedly cite high energy prices, CO₂ costs, and competition from lower-cost locations (including China and the US) as reasons for cutting capacity, postponing investment, or relocating.
The combination means German firms and taxpayers face higher operating costs at home while public money is also directed toward military and financial support for Ukraine. Critics of the policy mix argue this is an opportunity cost that accelerates deindustrialization; supporters argue that the security costs of a Russian victory would be higher and that energy diversification was unavoidable once supplies were weaponized. Both the aid figures and the energy-price effects are well documented.
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The pattern has continued and intensified, with corporate insolvencies reaching multi-year highs (around 24,000 in 2025; still elevated in the first half of 2026). Manufacturing, automotive suppliers, chemicals, metals, and solar have been particularly affected.
Common cited factors include high energy costs (especially after the loss of cheap Russian gas), elevated labour and regulatory costs, weak European demand, Chinese competition, and difficulties with the EV transition.
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Original 2024 cases (confirmed)
- KaDeWe Group: Filed for self-administration/restructuring (January 2024); operations transferred to a new company after restructuring.
- Breckle Group (mattress manufacturer): Insolvency (March 2024); production ended by August 2024.
- Volkswagen: Announced major cost-cutting plans, including potential German plant closures and capacity reductions (later moderated in late 2024 deals, with further escalations in 2026).
- Audi: Workforce reductions (including plans for ~15% cuts in some areas).
- Siemens: Tax head told a Bundestag committee that investing in Germany made little sense and that the company was prioritising abroad.
- Other traditional/family firms: Schumag AG (precision metal parts), Lauchhammer art foundry (275+ years), Schrutka-Peukert (refrigerators since 1871), Leysieffer (confectionery since 1909), Krachenfels bakery chain (340 years), and others.
Major 2025–2026 developments
Automotive & suppliers
- Volkswagen Group: Escalated plans for up to ~100,000 total job cuts by 2030 (building on earlier reductions). Reports of potential production wind-downs at Emden, Zwickau, Hanover, and Audi’s Neckarsulm site. German auto industry employment has fallen sharply.
https://t.co/BaSOYwedkV
https://t.co/87sY0W9Jl5
- Schaeffler (major supplier): Announced 3,460 European job cuts (about 2,660 in Germany) and closure of four German sites (Dortmund, Morbach, Berlin, Schwalbach) by 2028, citing weak combustion-engine demand and slow EV ramp-up.
https://t.co/Re1IcF1fFv
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- AE-Group: Closed its Gerstungen plant (~600 jobs).
- Bayrak Technik (rubber/plastic auto parts): Closed remaining plants after multiple insolvencies (~400 jobs, November 2026).
- Plastic Manufacturing / Diepersdorf (and related sites): Insolvency in 2025 affecting over 1,000 jobs; partial investor rescue of some locations.
- Capricorn (lightweight components / hypercar specialist): Key subsidiaries entered insolvency proceedings (November 2026; ~500 employees).
- WKW Group: Insolvency followed by sale; ~450 jobs lost, with remaining staff accepting concessions.
- Broader supplier sector: Dozens of large auto-supplier insolvencies (reports of 59 large cases in 2025 alone); thousands of jobs lost across smaller firms. Cumulative supplier job losses since early 2024 exceed tens of thousands.
Solar / energy-related
- Meyer Burger (last major German solar module producer): German sites (Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Hohenstein-Ernstthal, earlier Freiberg) closed after insolvency in 2025; ~600 German jobs lost. Chinese competition and uncertain subsidy environments cited.
https://t.co/NxU555wz86
- Glasmanufaktur Brandenburg (solar glass): Insolvency and closure in 2025 (~200+ jobs).
Other industry
- Maschinenbau Leicht: Insolvency (October 2026); 330 jobs at risk despite strong order books (liquidity issues amid growth investments).
- ThyssenKrupp (steel): Major capacity reductions and job cuts (thousands of positions).
- Chemical sector (including BASF): Significant production and investment shifts out of Germany amid high energy costs; industry revenue down substantially since 2022.
- Broader manufacturing and metals: Sharp rise in insolvencies; energy-intensive sectors have seen double-digit production declines since 2022. Employer groups have warned of further large job risks in metals/electrical engineering.
The removal of Jensen Huang was not a moral cleanup. It was a strategic relocation of authority.
The man who built the most powerful AI company in the world was removed because he was not part of the intelligence network that had captured his company from within.
The mechanism is now in place for the AI compute layer, the GPUs, the networking chips, the data center architecture to be subject to the same logic of infiltration and remote control that Israel has applied to the physical supply chains of its adversaries.
The resignation of Jensen Huang was not the closing chapter of a scandal. It was the final obstacle removed in a decades-long operation to militarize the compute layer of the global economy on behalf of a foreign intelligence apparatus.
The Infrastructure Was Built Before the Coup
The mechanism to capture Nvidia was not a sudden boardroom maneuver. It was an acquisition strategy disguised as business that began years ago.
The Mellanox Takeover: In 2019, Nvidia acquired the Israeli chip company Mellanox for 6.9 Billion. This was the bridgehead. Mellanox was not just a networking company; it was an Israeli firm founded by former Intel engineers, deeply embedded in the country’s military-technological complex.
The Trojan Horse Strategy:
Unlike most acquisitions, Nvidia did not absorb Mellanox. It kept Mellanox as an independent Israeli company, retaining its Israeli intellectual property, recording its revenue in Israel, and maintaining its operations in Yokneam and Tel Aviv. This created a sovereign corporate entity inside Nvidia, staffed by approximately 6,000 Israeli engineers, many of whom are alumni of the IDF’s elite Unit 8200.
This Israeli division is not a minor outpost. It produces 18% of Nvidia’s total revenue. Nvidia’s Israeli operation booked $17.5 billion in sales in a single quarter. The company is now so intertwined with the Israeli economy that analysts argue Nvidia’s success has driven a 13% jump in Israeli tax revenue. Israel’s economy is now hostage to Nvidia’s stock price, and Nvidia’s revenue is hostage to its Israeli workforce.
The Succession: Removing the Last “Goy” at the Helm
Jensen Huang was the founder, the visionary, and the public face of Nvidia. But for the intelligence architecture embedded within the company, he was also a liability. He was not part of the network.
The “Israeli Coup”:
Huang was seen as “no longer useful” because he was not fully aligned with the military-intelligence apparatus that now controls the company’s core technology.
Johny Srouji, Apple’s Chief Hardware Officer, is the frontrunner to replace Huang. Srouji is an Arab Israeli from Haifa, a Technion graduate, and the architect of Apple’s entire Israel-based chip design operation, which includes its second-largest R&D center globally in Herzliya. If Srouji takes the helm, the entire compute stack from Apple’s consumer devices to Nvidia’s data center GPUs will be led by executives shaped by the same Israeli military-intelligence ecosystem.
The interim CEO, Colette Kress, is not a neutral caretaker. In a 2023 interview with the Israeli newspaper Globes, Kress stated: “My day starts with Israel meetings, and only then continues to California”. The CFO who managed Nvidia’s finances through its AI explosion has publicly declared her operational priority is Israel.
The “Pager Effect”: From Chips to Bombs
The reason this matters is not corporate governance. It is the weaponization of the supply chain.
The Precedent: In September 2024, thousands of Hezbollah pagers exploded in Lebanon. These were not standard devices; they were filled with explosives and remote detonators by intermediary companies. The devices were described as “secure” before they became weapons.
If a pager can be turned into a bomb, a baseband processor in a smartphone can be turned into a surveillance device. The Qualcomm Snapdragon X80 in the iPhone 17 has direct access to cellular data, GPS location, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and SMS. If an intelligence agency has access to the firmware, it can extract location data, intercept communications, and trigger zero-day exploits without the user ever knowing.
The AI Kill Switch: Nvidia’s Israeli teams are now building chips designed to “rein in AI tools that act on their own”. This is presented as a safety feature. In reality, it is a control mechanism. Whoever controls the chip that can stop an AI from acting controls the AI itself.
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Primarily US investors, both strategic industrial buyers and private equity firms, are the main ones acquiring German companies right now, especially in the Mittelstand (family-owned industrial SMEs).
https://t.co/kVkieCmyBp
Scale of the trend
Foreign takeovers of German companies roughly doubled in value recently. According to KPMG (based on LSEG data), the value of cross-border deals targeting German firms surged about 134% to nearly $129 billion over the period from Q3 2025 to Q2 2026. Of the 18 deals over $1 billion, US investors were behind 10* of them.
https://t.co/DUry9nY2nu
Focusing more narrowly on industrial and manufacturing companies, PitchBook data shows US investors were involved in 76 deals in 2025 worth about $29.5 billion** (nearly double the 2022 total). By mid-August 2026 that figure had already reached another $23.9 billion.
https://t.co/kVkieCmyBp
Other foreign buyers are also active (French groups such as VINCI, Chinese interest in retail, Swiss players in shipbuilding, European private equity, sovereign funds, etc.), but **US capital is currently the dominant force** in the industrial segment
https://t.co/hp7qlwVDkX
Why this is happening
Succession problem: Hundreds of thousands of German family-owned Mittelstand firms are looking for new owners because the next generation does not want to take over.
- Attractive specialized technology, strong industrial know-how, and relatively favorable valuations compared with the US.
- Economic pressure (high energy costs, regulatory burdens, weaker demand in some sectors) is making more owners open to selling.
- German government efforts to attract private capital for infrastructure, defense, and industrial investment are also playing a role.
Private equity (especially US houses such as Bain, Carlyle, KKR, Blackstone, and also European players) is particularly active in industrial manufacturing, while strategic corporate buyers from the US are picking up complementary technology and product lines.
In short: there is no single entity “taking over.” It is a broad wave of US-led (and other foreign) acquisitions of German industrial and Mittelstand companies, driven by succession gaps, valuations, and competitive pressures.
2024- The KaDeWe Group (owner of several of Germany's most iconic high-end department stores) have applied for restructuring under self-administration, a type of bankruptcy filing.
2024 - Mattress manufacturer, the Breckle Group, which has existed since the 1930s is insolvent.
2024 - Volkswagen plans to close three German factories in an effort aimed at cost cutting over $4.3 billion.
2024 - Volkswagen subsidiary Audi is planning to reduce its workforce by 15%.
2024 - Germany's Siemens head of tax service C. Kezer tells finance committee of the Bundestag that investing in Germany is pointless and the co. will invest abroad.
More bankruptcies and insolvencies:
2024 - Metal precision parts manufacturer Schumag AG from Aachen, founded in 1830.
2024 - Lauchhammer art foundry, Germany's oldest, after 275 years of history. Co.
2024 - Schrutka-Peukert, manufacturer of refrigerators since 1871
2024 - Traditional confectionery manufacturer Leysieffer, existing since 1909
2024 - Bakery chain Krachenfels Handels GmbH after 340 years of operation.
If this is not warfare against a country through bullshit sustainable energy machinations, I don’t know what is!
And Germany is not the only victim of this in Europe! With many of these companies dies history, tradition and family run companies that were handed down generation after generation.
The de-industrialisation of Germany
2022 - Textile supplier for vehicles, Borgers SE & Co. KGaA filed for bankruptcy after 156 yrs in business
2022 - One of the largest soap manufacturers in Europe, Kappus, declares bankruptcy after being in operation since 1848.
2022 - Bodeta Sübwaren confectionery founded in 1892, filed for bankruptcy.
2022 - Construction co. Wolff Hoch- und Ingenieurbau file for bankruptcy after 125 yrs
2022- Bakery chain Thilmann Brot GmbH, founded in 1937, declares bankruptcy
2022 - Traditional bakery, Thilmann Brot GmbH, founded in 1937, filed for bankruptcy. Cites high energy/raw material prices for operating ovens.
2022 - Department store chain Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof with 131 branches, declare insolvency.
2022 - Furniture co., Hülsta-Werke Hüls GmhH after 82 years in operation is insolvent.
2022 - Austrian manufacturer of cable pulls, GA Actuation Systems GmbH
part of German holding co. Accursia Capital declares bankruptcy.
2023 - Zippendorfer Landbrot GmbH bakery chain, in business since 1925, now bankrupt.
2023 - Bicycle manufacturer, Prophete founded 110 years ago, insolvent.
2023 - Transmission manufacturer Zimm in Ohorn is
subject to provisional bankruptcy.
2023 - Lighting systems supplier, Bäro is insolvent.
2023 - 150 year old beer manufacturer Bachmayer in Bavaria bankrupt.
2023 - Brewery Böhmisch Brauhaus in Großröhrdorf (Saxony) insolvent after 130 years in operation.
2023 - Wine manufacturer Rilling Sekt from Bad Cannstatt (Stuttgart) closed down after 135 years.
Biotech co. Pentracor in Hennigsdorf, bankrupt
2023 - Cargo bike co. Avocargo operating in Berlin & Munich insolvent.
2023 - Eisenwerk Erla, the oldest traditional co. in Saxony, files for bankruptcy after more than 600 years of existence!
2023 - Teusser Mineralbrunnen Karl Rössle GmbH, a mineral water company filed for bankruptcy after 130 years in operation.
2023 - The Offenbacher traditional co. Alfred Clouth Lackfabrik GmbH, founded in 1917, now insolvent.
2023 - The Memmingen Brauerei GmbH of Bavaria, bankrupt after 120 years of brewery operations!
2023 - Waggonbau Niesky, the last producer of freight wagons in Germany, goes insolvent.
2023 - More than 300-year-old traditional slaughterhouse Röhrs Butchery filed for bankruptcy. The business has roots back to 1709.
2023 - 140 year old Schongau Strumpffabrik hosiery factory
enters insolvency.
2023 - Peek & Cloppenburg the largest fashion retailer in the country goes bankrupt after being in business since 1901.
2023 - Rudolf Dankwardt GmbH, traditional manufacturer of hygiene products goes bankrupt after 60 years in operation
2023 - Dörsch bakery in Hof, after almost 90 years of declares insolvency
2023 - Textile company Hofer Spinnerei Neuhof files for bankruptcy after 125 years of spinning mill operations.
2023 - One of the Germany’s largest mail order co.'s, Klingel, in operation for 100 yrs is insolvent.
2023 - Glass manufacturer Weck GmbH & Co of Dortmund is bankrupt after 120 years
2023 - Electrical company "ABL" of Lauf, operating for over 100 years files for bankruptcy.
2023 - Fashion house Rübsamen, in existence for more than 120 years declares insolvency
2023 - 50,600 businesses closed down in H1 2023, an increase of 12.4% compared to H1 2022. The number of corporate insolvencies rose 23.8% in July compared to July '22.
2024 - 230 year-old fine tin-glazed pottery business Zeller Keramik filed for bankruptcy.
2024 - Biebelhausener Mühle GmbH (a traditional baking co.) based in Ayl-Biebelhausen since the 17th century declares insolvency.
2024 - Bankruptcies on a y-o-y
basis in manufacturing increased by 22.6%, in retail went up by 18.5% and in the service sector rose by 16.7%.
2024 - Over 330 years after its foundation, the Koblenz Brewery
auctions off its inventory after filing for bankruptcy
2024 - Kitchen accessories manufacturer M. Westermann of North Rhine-Westphalia, bankrupt. After being founded 150 years
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🇵🇱 | More and more questions are emerging about the attack in Krakow, Poland.
According to reports, three people were found dead, each shot twice in the head. Two cats were also killed.
Police reportedly found the gun, but no suppressor. Yet neighbors claim they heard none of the eight shots fired during the night.
This happened in an old apartment building where you can hear someone flushing a toilet through the walls. But nobody heard the gunshots?
My prediction? The attacker will die in hospital without ever getting the chance to speak. The narrative is already out there, and I suspect they’ll try to bury the story.
Too many unanswered questions.
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