{"id":15596,"date":"2026-01-08T09:51:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=15596"},"modified":"2026-01-08T09:51:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:51:51","slug":"russia-nationalized-120b-in-european-assets-china-won-everything-yanis-varoufakis-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/russia-nationalized-120b-in-european-assets-china-won-everything-yanis-varoufakis-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Nationalized $120B in European Assets\u2014China Won Everything | Yanis Varoufakis &#8211; YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Russia Nationalized $120B in European Assets\u2014China Won Everything | Yanis Varoufakis\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ODZTGzbq6_0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"info-container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-info-text\"><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Dec 29, 2025<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"expanded\" class=\"style-scope ytd-text-inline-expander\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\" role=\"text\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Europe seized $105 billion from Russia to fund Ukraine. Russia nationalized $120 billion in European corporate assets. Siemens. Volkswagen. Shell. Thirty years of investment. Gone. And that was just the opening move. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-text-inline-expander\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\" role=\"text\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">This is the story of how Europe committed one of the most catastrophic strategic blunders in modern economic history. Not because they tried to punish Russia. But because they fundamentally misunderstood who had more to lose. And Russia didn&#8217;t just retaliate. They taught the entire world not to trust European finance.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 29, 2025 Europe seized $105 billion from Russia to fund Ukraine. Russia nationalized $120 billion in European corporate assets. Siemens. Volkswagen. Shell. Thirty years of investment. Gone. And that was just the opening move. This is the story of how Europe committed one of the most catastrophic strategic blunders in modern economic history. Not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/russia-nationalized-120b-in-european-assets-china-won-everything-yanis-varoufakis-youtube\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russia Nationalized $120B in European Assets\u2014China Won Everything | Yanis Varoufakis &#8211; YouTube<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15597,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596\/revisions\/15597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}