Donald Trump buys a red Tesla at full market price

Against the ongoing anti-Tesla protests, boycotts and sabotages, the USA President decided to buy a Tesla to show his confidence and support for Elon Musk’ electric vehicle brand. On March 11th 2025, line-up of Teslas were found in front of the White House, and Trump seemed to prefer a Red Model S Plaid. Trump said he would buy by traditional method of giving Tesla a check, and didn’t want a discount. Musk announced on the day that he would double down Tesla productions in the USA.

Elon Musk: Cyberattack on X originated from Ukraine

The social media platform X underwent a massive cyberattack on 10th Mar, following Elon Musk’s post one day earlier saying that his Starlink is the backbone of the Ukrainian military and their front line would collapse if he turned it off. In an interview with Fox Business, Musk stated the IP address of the attack came from Ukraine.

Elon Musk traced groups responsible for Tesla “protests” back to a George Soros-funded platform

The billionaire’s electric vehicle company Tesla has been enduring a wave of protests, sabotages and boycotts across the USA, which found their dealers and showrooms surrounded, charge stations sabotaged, Tesla cars painted and damaged. In an X post, Musk revealed that 5 groups responsible for the incidents were funded by ActBlue which was the main fundraising platform for Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.

JD Vance gains positive popularity in “Once Upon a Meme”

The US Vice President has been the target of many Democrats who initially tried make joke of him by pasting his face into various funny memes. Instead of fighting back the flood of memes making fun of him on social media, Vance chose to post one of them on his X account on 8th Mar 2025, and that was a cut scene of Leo DiCaprio in “Once upon a time”. Within just a few hours, Vance’s post has received a record of nearly 85 million views, 420k likes. And now some Democrats turn to call for stopping the joking trend so that Vance wouldn’t get more popularity.

Russia warns against UK’s “giving away” Russian assets to Ukraine

Russian media quoted Vyacheslav Volodin, the Speaker of the Russian State Duma as saying “The transfer of Russia's assets by Britain to Ukraine is a serious breach of international law. They will ultimately have to return to Russia what they are now so generously giving away”.  Earlier, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal announced via his Telegram channel that Ukraine had received 752 million pounds (~ $ 971.3 million dollars) from Britain, secured through proceeds from frozen Russian assets.

Russia escalated and gained advantages in battlefield as Ukraine lost access to US intelligence information

Russian media quoted reports by Russia Ministry of Defence that in week March 1-7, the Russian Armed Forces delivered 7 combined strikes on Ukraine by precision weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, hitting the infrastructure of military airfields, ammunition depots, production workshops, storage warehouses …, inflicting 1,590 Ukrainian casualties, and Russian units continued to move deeper into Ukraine’s defenses. 

Missouri General Attorney to secure ~$25 billion judgement against China in relation to Covid-19 epidemic

The State’s Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced on Friday 7th March 2025 that he is taking actions to secure the $24 billion judgment against China for unleashing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Risky sources for Ukraine aid and conflicting agendas make Brussels Summit failed

EU Brussels Summit on 6th March 2025 basically failed to agree on a joint position to substantially continue their support for Ukraine, firstly because they did not intend to use their pocket money for the “aid” and secondly some items of their agenda seemed to be too-early-so- too- risky.

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There have been no reports of the EU leaders discussing on how much the EU Commission and each member states would share their parts in a new aid package to Ukraine. Instead, they primarily debated on whether to use/confiscate some $227 billion in frozen Russian assets that have been held in Europe’s financial system since the start of the Ukraine war.

According to New York Post, so far, around $50 billion in assistance has been given to Ukraine using the accumulating interest on Russia’s frozen assets by the G7 group of nations.

Ukraine President Zelenskyy was successful in rallying some neighbor countries, such as Poland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to call for the seizing of Russia’s money to pay for Ukraine’s reconstruction, and especially for an emergency aid at this moment when the USA paused all of its military aid.

However, Germany, France and Belgium warned of legal and financial consequences. "Countries calling for the confiscation of frozen Russian assets should be aware of the economic risks. This could shock the global financial system.", said Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever.

Any Russia–Ukraine Peace Deal in the future would certainly involve the handling of Russian frozen assets, therefore any touch on these assets at this stage would make the future peace talks become complicated, and even worse, someone would have to compensate for what they had confiscated. 

Also, “pouring more military aids, sending own troops” and “proposing for a temporary truce” are conflicting agendas to each other, and the former would undermine or eliminate the later. It would be hard for Russia to believe in the honesty of any truce proposal and accept it if the other war party(ies) is rallying more forces.

In general, the EU seems to be still indecisive about which path to take: to rally all forces to defeat Russia, or to start the peace negotiations immediately.

According to AI Gok, for 2023, the most recent year with comprehensive data, Eurostat reports the following government deficit-to-GDP ratios:

• Germany: Recorded a deficit of -2.6% of GDP. As the EU’s largest economy, with a GDP of approximately €4.5 trillion, this translates to a deficit of about €117 billion. Germany’s fiscal discipline is notable, though it still exceeds the EU Stability and Growth Pact’s 3% threshold slightly.
• France: Had a deficit of -5.5% of GDP. With a GDP of around €2.8 trillion, this equates to roughly €154 billion. France consistently runs higher deficits, reflecting its significant public spending.
• Italy: Posted a deficit of -7.2% of GDP, the highest among these countries. With a GDP of about €2.1 trillion, this amounts to approximately €151 billion. Italy’s large deficit is tied to its substantial debt burden and economic challenges.
• Spain: Recorded a deficit of -3.6% of GDP. With a GDP of around €1.5 trillion, this is about €54 billion. Spain has reduced its deficit since the post-pandemic peak but remains above the EU’s 3% limit.
• Poland: Had a deficit of -5.1% of GDP. With a GDP of roughly €0.8 trillion, this translates to about €41 billion. Poland’s deficit reflects increased spending, partly due to regional security concerns.

Across the EU as a whole, the average government deficit was -3.5% of GDP in 2023, up from -3.2% in 2022, amounting to approximately €600 billion against a total EU GDP of €17.2 trillion. Among the biggest economies, Italy and France stand out with deficits well above the EU average and the 3% threshold set by the Stability and Growth Pact, while Germany and Spain are closer to or just over that limit. Poland sits in the middle of this group.

These numbers are based on Eurostat’s October 2024 release, reflecting data reported by EU member states. 

EU leaders gather in Brussels to talk on more military aid to Ukraine and defense boost scheme

The European Union held another emergency meeting after London Summit on Friday 6th March, this time in Brussels Belgium including Ukraine of course but without previous outsiders Canada and UK. The summit’s main agenda would likely the “Rearm Europe Plan” worth of Euro 80 billion outlined by EU Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen on Monday, the French President Macron’s scheme of “expanding French  nuclear umbrella” over Europe, and Zelenskyy’s demand for more money and EU soldiers’ foots on his war zone.

Zelenskyy smiles happily and optimistically when talking to EU Commission President

The USA President intends to apply reciprocal tariffs this 2nd April

In his joint address to American Congress early March 2025, Donald Trump revealed the plan to enforce reciprocal tariffs on April 2nd (he originally wanted it on April 1st but superstitiously tried to avoid the April Fool’ day).  “The European Union, China, Brazil, India, Mexico and Canada and countless other nations charge us tremendously higher tariffs than we charge them. It's very unfair”. After reciprocal tariffs kick in, “whatever they tax us, we will tax them”, he stated.

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