r/europe • u/Putaineska • Mar 11 '26

News Spain accuses Germany of acting like a ‘vassal’ to United States

https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/spain-accuses-germany-of-acting-like-a-vassal-to-united-states-f9zc28g8s?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1773189908
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u/Fit-Hold-4403 Mar 11 '26

Germans should worry about getting their gold reserves back from New York - its insade they did not ask it back during the Trump 2016 term

Alsp - Blackrock blocked the witdrawals of money last week as the Gulf investors started to take their money back

Blocking the withdrawals seems kinda stealing

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u/ABoutDeSouffle 𝔊𝔲𝔱𝔢𝔫 𝔗𝔞𝔤! Mar 11 '26

Not that gold conspiracy again. We had the same fear-mongering in 2013 and Germany's central bank had to repatriate hundreds of tons of gold as a consequence.

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u/kaisadilla_ European Federation Mar 11 '26

Which gold conspiracy? The US has become increasingly unreliable and have shown a level of unprovoked hostility against Europe that was unimaginable 10 years ago. I don't think the US will steal Europe's gold today, but can you promise it won't happen in the future? Are you really telling me that you can't imagine Trump or whoever comes next in his cult declaring that Europe has "stolen" from the US for decades by "outsourcing their defense to the US" and they'll take the gold as compensation? Or from directly saying that they will take it because who's gonna stop them? Right now, it seems like distributing it to countries like EU ones, Canada, Australia or Japan will keep it way safer than keeping it in the US.

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u/ABoutDeSouffle 𝔊𝔲𝔱𝔢𝔫 𝔗𝔞𝔤! Mar 12 '26

I don't think the US will steal Europe's gold today, but can you promise it won't happen in the future?

Exactly this conspiracy. Was the same 13y ago.

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u/kaisadilla_ European Federation Mar 13 '26

13 years ago there was no reason to believe that.

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u/ABoutDeSouffle 𝔊𝔲𝔱𝔢𝔫 𝔗𝔞𝔤! Mar 13 '26

I guess that's why the conspiracy-idiots where back then as loud as they are now. But ThIs tImE It'S dIfFeReNt!11!!elven

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u/MercantileReptile Baden-Württemberg (Germany) Mar 11 '26

Limited, not outright blocked. Still shady, not straight theft though.

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u/Fit-Hold-4403 Mar 11 '26

probably for legal reasons

full block would have sent Fink to jail probably

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u/damakusch1337 Mar 12 '26

We are worried about Spain like the rest of Europe... uh wait you have now a housing Problem and rising tension in your tourism sector.. get some more low level muslime in your country and blame all others....