It's up to $300M last I saw.

A golden ballroom.

And it is "modernizing" things, too! Like every other asshole on this planet, Taco has learned that saying meaningless words like "modern" stops at least a certain set of people from asking more questions or having any more independent thoughts about the thing under discussion. I mean, because, gee, you don't want to question something that is MODERN, now, do you?

Don't think about it too hard [1], because: "modern".

</Jedi mind trick>

I see this tactic employed on the job nearly every day - I work in tech, so the word "modern" is usually sprinkled in abundance all over completely bullshit and harebrained schemes, plots, claims and projects. Because so many vapid thinkers abound all throughout tech, and we have a steady influx of people that barely have any experience who now rely on Youtube influencers for their gurus, this tactic works a depressingly high amount of the time. Increasingly over time, tech operates more like the fashion industry (but instead of following whatever someone likes in NYC, London, Paris or Milan it's about following whatever FAANG, or someone that supposedly works/worked at FAANG has said) than it does anything resembling real engineering... But I digress. :)

[1] I mean, definitely don't think about how the term "ballroom" really invokes, for most people, maybe flappers in the 1920s, and that's probably the most recent of references? 1700s Europe comes to mind...

Nukes. Europe will never liberate us. We have nukes. And drone strikes. Raiding the shore of the USA would be an act of war, and the response to a nation-ending threat like that fr a nation with nukes is Mutually Assured Destruction.

I'll also note that the whole world right now is trending towards Fascism; So support for a War with the USA is unlikely. Wars always suck; and there's a good portion of every European nation who would want the USA to win, who could leverage the impact of war to breed discontent.