🚨HOW US MEGA-FUNDS SECRETLY CONTROL EUROPE

After the 2008 financial crisis, the US money managers took control over major banks & industries in Europe.

Alexander Yakovenko, the Deputy Head of Sputnik's parent media group Rossiya Segodnya, reveals how:

❓What are mega-funds?

▪️BlackRock, Vanguard, Fidelity, State Street, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan. They control $36.4T+ in assets.

▪️That's MASSIVE power to consolidate controlling stakes in systemically important industries across the globe — including Europe.

💵New (corporatocratic) world order

▪️Mega-funds enjoy strong patronage from the US government, which uses the Federal Reserve, the courts, sanctions and SCANDALS to deal blows to foreign competitors before US capital swoops in to buy them out.

🌍Control on all fronts

▪️US mega-funds have seized control of KEY European companies.

▪️This gives Washington powerful levers to exact pressure — economically, politically & even militarily.

🔍Who feeds mega-funds?

▪️Mega-funds draw their power from the US $52T private savings market.

▪️This market thrives thanks to the Fed’s rate policies and "quantitative easing," which keeps deposit and bond interest at zero or negative amid inflation.

🎯Mega funds' major purpose

▪️Mega-funds’ influence has effectively turned the EU into a gigantic buffer absorbing US financial and economic risks.

▪️Through them, the US can EXPORT its INFLATION, jettison toxic assets, WEAKEN competitors, and IMPOSE unfavorable trade deals.

😈Hostile takeover

▪️From 2008-2018, US funds took managerial and shareholder control of most of Europe’s top 20 banks, and $16.7T in assets.

▪️This cost just $300B, thanks to the PIIGS crisis, the LIBOR and Forex scandals, in which US actors often played a clandestine role.

🔄Flip flop: Now I'm the boss

▪️Europe’s crisis, made possible with US mega-fund and regulators’ help, allowed the US to reestablish the DOLLAR'S DOMINANCE.

▪️It also flipped control over international currency markets: from 45% European bank-owned in 2007, to 72% US bank-owned in 2017.

🌱Cultivating elites

▪️The takeover of Europe wouldn’t be possible without the nurturing of leaders unconditionally ready to accept US “leadership.”

▪️Germany is a case in point, with 24 of 30 of its top firms under US management by 2017, and bank capitalization down 70%+.

⚔️Ukraine war sealed Europe's fate

▪️The US economic war against the EU that began in 2008 ESCALATED dramatically in 2022.

▪️The cutoff of Russian energy ramped up Europe’s deindustrialization and loss of competitiveness, while aiding America’s reindustrialization.

Bravo.

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