🚨 TRUMP WARNING: “ALL OF RUSSIA’S GOLD IS OURS — WE WILL TAKE IT BY FORCE IF NEEDED”
Back in 2022, Europe froze about $244 billion of Russian assets, mostly bonds sitting in European banks, right after the Ukraine war kicked off. Everyone figured Russia’s economy would get wrecked. But here's the twist that nobody saw coming…
Instead of folding, Russia shifted hard to gold reserves kept right at home. Since 2022, the value of Russia's gold has shot up by around $216 billion. Gold turned into their real shield against all those sanctions. While the paper stuff got locked up overseas, the physical gold inside Russia stayed completely out of reach.
Now check out gold's run. In 2025 it surged nearly 65-70%, and just in the first few weeks of 2026 it's already climbed another 8-10%. That's exactly why Trump and some U.S. leaders are sounding the alarm that hard assets like gold mean real power, and sanctions might not cut it anymore. The signal is loud and clear—and pretty intense: control the tangible stuff, and you control what's next. The global scramble for gold is on.
