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48 Hours That Shook the World
December 5: The European Union issues a €120 million fine against X — the first penalty ever enforced under the Digital Services Act.
December 7: The owner of X publicly calls for the abolition of the EU.
“I'm serious. Not joking.”
The post gains millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes within hours.
This is no ordinary regulatory conflict. This is the owner of the world’s biggest public communications platform — and a senior U.S. government adviser — openly calling for the dissolution of a 27-nation political union that governs 450 million citizens and accounts for €17 trillion in GDP.
The sequence is simple:
Fine issued → Advertising access cut off → Abolition demanded.
Three moves. Forty-eight hours.
And suddenly, the post-war European order faces its most direct challenge from a private citizen in almost eighty years.
What makes this moment unlike any previous billionaire-versus-bureaucracy dispute:
He owns the platform.
He advises the U.S. president.
He controls the satellites.
He builds the rockets.
He moves markets with a sentence.
The EU has no app store to block, no infrastructure to restrict, and minimal leverage over the underlying technology. Regulation was its only weapon — and the individual they fined has now told hundreds of millions of users that the institution itself should not exist.
If Brussels escalates, it reinforces his narrative of bureaucratic overreach.
If it backs down, it signals regulatory capture.
If it ignores him, it risks looking irrelevant.
There is no tidy outcome.
The question is no longer whether platforms are too powerful.
The question is whether any institution remains powerful enough to govern them.
We are witnessing the collision between twentieth-century political structures and twenty-first-century digital infrastructure — live, in real time.
The tribunal has been dismissed by the defendant.
What follows has no historical precedent.
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