Finland has just been stuffed for Thanksgiving, 
German turkeys the size of pigeons …https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-economy-stagnates-q3-2025-10-30/ and the forecast for Europe is a downward trendline to 2030
.The only thing it would seem keeping the boat right side up is the military spending and loans to The Ukraine counted as assets in national accounts and GDP it would appear.
Large credited A$$ET$, of the “Western” GDP; ar, IN FACT, financialized extraction$.
They’re actually MINU$E$…
NOT the big PLU$E$; that are added to Western GDP’$!
[by Bank$ter Definition; COMPOUND INTER$E$/etc, are PLU$E$, adding to the economy]
BUT, it’s real buildings, factories, PROCUT$, etc., that make UP a real GDP!
Not financialized IN$TRUMENT$!
[IMO]
Indeed loans ledgered as assets in banking, are liabilities if not likely to be repaid.
