Europe’s €210 Billion Kill Shot: The Day the EU Crushed the Trump–Putin Fantasy With One Financial Nuke There are days in geopolitics when someone gives a speech, signs a treaty, or launches a missile, and history shifts by a few degrees. And then there are days like this — When Europe walked into the global vault, turned the deadbolt on €210 billion of Russian sovereign assets, and effectively told Donald Trump: “You don’t run the world anymore, sunshine. And you definitely don’t run our books.”