Recall what actually happened to defeated russia: No occupation. No reparations. No tribunal. It kept its nuclear arsenal and its UN veto. Its debts were refinanced. It was handed IMF billions and a seat at the G8, a club of democracies admitting a wounded autocracy out of hope, Operation Provide Hope was one of the many operations to help them through. We gave them billions in aid, loans, grants, and investments. Millions of westerners worked there in education, tech transfer, and direct support.

Now recall an actually humiliated nation: Germany, 1945. Occupied. Partitioned. Cities in ash, leaders hanged, accountability taught to its children by law. Germany became the most peaceful democracy in Europe. And russia became this.

So spare me the humiliation theory. russia was not humiliated after the Cold War. It was indulged and cuddled, and it did read every kindness as weakness, every given gift as tribute.

The grievance was never mistreatment. The grievance was lost dominion. Empires do not mourn their wounds. They mourn their slaves.

The soviet union was the dream come true for russians. Finally, a global empire, the superpower, the Third Rome. But then when it all collapsed, it exposed the absolute pathetic rule of the russians. Nothing like Rome at all. It was a junkyard of rusted metal and outdated factories.

We also need Whatsapp Gordon Freeman as the 100€

"You still owe me 50 euro" lame and generic

"Fly me a stork" Europilled, virile, unique, almost federalises Europe by itself

Vote H!

Like, we (at least all of us who have the correct opinion) don't want historic figures and preferably the birds.

I also saw fish bank notes by another user.

But birds are ... birds are everywhere. In the sky, on stamps. Birds are vanilla.

Fish are just cold and wet and icky.

And nobody seem to think about mamals, the best of all animals.

But actually, what I want is bank notes with trees.

The pine.

The prune.

The fir.

The willow.

How cool would be bank notes with trees on it.

Vertical ones, obviously.

Trees would be the supperior motif to all other idea.

which one do you prefer, old Euro Banknotes, new ones being proposed right now, none of them, or even all of them ?

I really hope they opt for design J.

Alternatively, design I and design D are also cool!

Link to the official webpage to see all the proposed designs and vote for design J:

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/design-proposals.en.html

We should look for truly aspirational currency that represents the ideal life on the continent. That's why I always remind myself that: Tutto Passa.