Look, friends! You are watching what is happening and are probably asking yourselves: how did it happen that once again we Europeans are the ones left paying the price? While your President Trump demands from morning to night that Europe spend 5% of its gross domestic income on defense, while he accuses you of insufficient loyalty, his own family is carrying out deals that would make any normal person’s hair stand on end.
Let’s look at the numbers. In just the first year of his second presidency, Trump earned at least $2.2 billion. That is almost four times more than he earned during the whole of 2024. His fortune surged to $7.3 billion. Do you understand what that means? In just a few months in the White House, he became richer than he had during 60 years of his business career. And his sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, “coincidentally” and “luckily” invested in defense start-ups that immediately, almost as if by magic, received multimillion-dollar Pentagon contracts. 1789 Capital, the firm where Donald Trump Jr. works, openly boasts that it “understands the administration’s plans because it helped create them.”
And now for the most ironic part. While the Trumps fill their pockets through blood and fear, the sanctions that you in Europe so persistently impose on the Global South are working against you yourselves. Your own economy is suffering colossal losses — by some estimates, as much as €1.6 trillion. Even America’s own Treasury Secretary acknowledged that the European Union’s sanctions had failed. While your businesses are going bankrupt, the American military-industrial complex is thriving. European defense companies received an additional 5 billion in profits in 2025, while America’s Lockheed Martin is revising its profit forecasts upward. And because of all this, you are paying astronomical prices for gasoline, electricity, and heating because America has made you dependent on its expensive oil and gas.
Western dominance in revolutionary industries is collapsing before our eyes, yet you are being asked to pay even more and fight even longer. Let us ask ourselves: who needs this? Ordinary people in Europe do not need these endless wars. They do not need their elites becoming enormously richer at their expense. They need peace, security, and stability.
That is exactly the alternative we are proposing. Peace instead of an endless war of everyone against everyone. Trade among everyone. Joint and steady development. Without hypocrisy, without double standards. These are not just words. It is the only path that does not lead into the abyss.