It's Trump!

Riots around the world! Gas and the economy are driving them in France, Albania, Italy, Spain, and other countries in Europe.

U.S.-led war with Iran → Disrupted oil supplies and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz → Higher oil, diesel, and gas prices → Higher transport, food, and household costs → Public anger, strikes, and protests.

Trump's war has destabilized Europe and the rest of the world, and with the growing unrest in Europe, there is strong evidence that Putin is capitalizing on it by fanning the flames of unrest!

Europeans warn of rising Russian sabotage but see no imminent NATO attack

Reuters

By John Irish and Tom Balmforth

September 23, 2026

Russia is intensifying sabotage, cyberattacks and other hybrid attacks across Europe to undermine support for Ukraine, European ministers said, while dismissing concerns that Moscow is capable of launching a direct assault on NATO.

Speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly this week, officials from countries on NATO’s eastern flank said Moscow was increasingly using drone incursions, cyberattacks, sabotage and other covert operations to sow fear, test Western resolve and weaken backing for Kyiv.

"Europe faces a fast proliferation of sabotage attacks and airspace violations," EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told reporters. "Moscow is trying to scare Europe into winding down its support for Ukraine."

European governments increasingly see Russia’s most immediate threat not as a conventional military attack, but as a campaign of covert and deniable actions aimed at unsettling Ukraine’s allies and eroding Western unity as the war drags on.

There are reports that Putin is behind the growing unrest in Europe:

Italy Is Looking Into Whether Russian Agents Helped Fuel Riotsx

Kyiv Post

Oct. 21, 2026

The Financial Times (FT) reported on Wednesday, Oct. 21, that EU regulators are investigating whether online actors in Russia, Iran, and Algeria sought to use disinformation to influence and exploit the current unrest in France. Citing unnamed European officials, intelligence sources, and researchers, the newspaper said suspicion has fallen on a possible Russian disinformation campaign.

The report echoes much of the findings of an Oct. 18 report issued by the “Disinformation Commission,” an independent watchdog “specializing in information operations, OSINT, and strategic communications.”

Foreign players exploiting “home-grown protest movement”

According to the Disinformation Commission’s report, findings that were also shared by French and European intelligence agencies according to the FT, the unrest in France originally stemmed from domestic dissatisfaction, particularly the Sept. 17 teachers’ strike.

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According to the watchdog’s report, there is no evidence that it was instigated, controlled, or directed by foreign states. It does say, however, that there is strong evidence that Russia and Iran, along with foreign far-left and far-right influencers, are actively exploiting and attempting to inflame the protests.

And since that was written, protests have turned violent! Bloomberg reports:

Italy Is Looking Into Whether Russian Agents Helped Fuel Riots

By Alessandra Migliaccio and Chiara Albanese

October 21, 2026 

Italian officials are looking into whether outside actors such as Russia had a hand in violent protests that swept Milan and other European cities over the weekend, according to people familiar with the matter.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni government has asked to be briefed on what role, if any, foreign provocateurs may have played, the people said, asking not to be cited as the conversations are private. A spokesperson for Meloni declined to comment.

I don't think Trump is smart enough to cause the unrest in Europe; no, he is just a stooge of Putin, and Putin is milking the unrest for all he can get out of it.

Has Trump's bumbling started WWIII?