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Jul 28 10 tweets 4 min read Read on X
🚨🇺🇸 Trump Just Brokered the Most One-Sided Deal in Modern History.

No One’s Talking About the Real Reason Why. Because It Was a Bailout Disguised as a Trade Deal.

Let’s connect the dots 🧵👇 Image
1/ Trump just forced the EU to:

→ Pay 15% tariffs on exports to the US

→ Accept ZERO tariffs on US goods

→ Commit to hundreds of billions in US energy & arms

But that’s just the surface.
Let’s go deeper 👇 Image
2/ Why would the EU agree to such a humiliating deal?

A region known for decades of trade protectionism…. suddenly surrendering their leverage?

Because Trump didn’t walk in with diplomacy, He walked in with leverage they couldn’t ignore. Image
3/ During his first term, Trump:

✔️ Strengthened NATO dependency on US energy

✔️ Shifted military manufacturing dominance back to the US

✔️ Dismantled EU’s ability to form an independent energy bloc

The trap was set years ago.
Now Europe’s hooked on American fuel & firepower. Image
4/ Meanwhile…

Germany is de-industrializing.

France is burning internally.

Italy and Spain are buried in debt.

The EU needs America…. badly.

And Trump knew exactly when to strike.

He threatened EU with tariffs who inturn threatened Trump that they would turn to China. Desperation?Image
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5/ Some say the deal was “unfair.”

But what if it wasn’t a deal at all…

What if it was a bailout disguised as trade?

The EU got survival.
Trump got leverage.
And America got paid. Image
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6/ They laughed at Trump in 2018 when he warned Germany about energy dependence on Russia.

Now?
They’re begging for LNG, power, weapons and political power from the U.S.

Beneath all this is the elephant in the room:
The Ukraine black hole.

Billions in EU funds drained.
War fatigue setting in.Image
7/ Trump knew:

If you control their fuel and their defense, You don’t need to win an argument…. You dictate the terms.

Trump’s building the economic trapdoors that lead back to American dominance.

And who is the unhappiest?…. France, the globalist puppet. Image
8/ How was the Deal Finalized?

Before this “deal” was struck, Trump threatened 100% tariffs on EU cars, steel & luxury goods.

In return, EU leaders panicked, von der Leyen even hinted at pivoting to China.

Brussels thought they could bluff.

Trump called it and flipped the entire board.Image
9/9 So ask yourself…

Why would Europe agree to a deal that looks one-sided on paper?

What did Trump offer behind the scenes or what did he threaten to expose?

This isn’t just diplomacy.
This is The Art of Leverage. 🧠🇺🇸

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Something is brewing inside Ripple.
Rumors suggest a growing friction between Ripple’s CEO and co-founder Chris Larsen.
If true, this could be a sign of massive internal power struggles as Ripple gears up for its next phase.

Let’s break down the signals 👇🧵Image
2/🧵
Chris Larsen vs. the Vision.
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But whispers say he’s not aligned with certain “corporate pivots” happening at the CEO level.
The old guard vs. the new plan.
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This isn’t hopium. It’s math. It’s liquidity physics.

Let’s decode the numbers they don’t want you to see 👇🧵 Image
2/🧵
The Liquidity Problem.
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Legacy systems require prefunded nostro/vostro accounts, freezing capital.
XRP eliminates this by acting as an on-demand bridge asset, but only if each unit of XRP holds enough value to handle massive flows.
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With 50 billion XRP max supply, the network must have a high enough price per coin to support liquidity depth for all transactions without slippage.

$1 trillion / 50 billion = $20 per XRP per day just for that fraction and that’s ignoring derivatives, RWA, and CBDCs.
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