🚨FORTY EIGHT HOURS THAT RATTLED THE WORLD
December 5: The European Union hits X with a €120 million fine—the first ever issued under the Digital Services Act.
December 7: The owner of X responds by calling for the EU to be abolished.
“I mean it. Not kidding.”
8 million views. 194,000 likes. Numbers rising.
This is no mere regulatory scuffle. It is the owner of the planet’s central public forum—who also serves as a senior U.S. government adviser—publicly urging the dissolution of a 27-nation bloc representing 450 million people and €17 trillion in economic output.
A rapid-fire sequence:
Fine delivered. Ad account shut down. Abolition demanded.
Three moves. Two days. And suddenly, the post-war European framework faces its most direct challenge from a private citizen in 80 years.
What sets this apart from every past billionaire–versus–bureaucracy showdown?
He owns the platform.
He advises the U.S. president.
He operates the satellites.
He launches the rockets.
He shifts markets with a sentence.
The EU can’t yank an app store, pull cloud services, or threaten infrastructure. Regulation is its only leverage. And the man they penalized just told 600 million monthly users that their union should not exist.
If Brussels escalates, it feeds his narrative of state overreach.
If Brussels backs down, it signals regulatory capture.
If Brussels stays silent, it risks irrelevance.
There is no safe path.
The issue is no longer whether platforms wield too much influence.
The question is whether anyone still has the power to contain them.
We are witnessing, in real time, the collision between 20th-century institutions and 21st-century infrastructure.
The defendant has dismissed the tribunal.
What follows has no precedent.
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