I didn't think about the affects on debt if a nation devalues its currency Thomas.
Not for nothing but a) for indirect safety guarantees arising from the fact that as long as the US mine these minerals, Putin won't dare to attack the wider territory around those sites. And b) Trump argues that the mineral would be a repayment for the weapons received from the US. During and after WWII , America did the same with its Lend-Lease Act.
Half! He's dreaming!!!
It's inflation in the form of dwindling puchasing power and higher prices. Whenever there's hyperinflation, it's a tried and tested way for governments to get rid of their debt. Germany did that after WW I when it waited for three years before it curbed rampant inflation since it wanted to repay its debt with valueless fiat money.I didn't think about the affects on debt if a nation devalues its currency Thomas.
Google concurred.
Devaluing a currency can make a nation's debt more manageable, especially if it's denominated in the local currency, because the cost of servicing that debt becomes effectively cheaper in terms of the devalued currency.
I tried to find how big the US's national debt recently and one answer was about. $US 72 TRILLION or $US 72,000,000,000,000.
I wish he were. Unfortunately, his power seems to be unlimited. Germany is in a funk now that he has announced a 25% tax on German cars. The retaliatory measures taken by the EU are just symbolic by comparison. A tax on peanut butter? Who eats that in Europe? Bourbon to be taxed? People will switch to Scotch. Harleys are just a niche product, too.
That's an excellent point Thomas. Lots of US assets in Ukraine would help keep Putin in check. Fair enough but what a sad world we're becoming.
Poor Donald, he's very sensitive about not getting it all his way. 
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That's an excellent point Thomas. Lots of US assets in Ukraine would help keep Putin in check. Fair enough but what a sad world we're becoming.
Like a crowded population of Rats in a maze.
Let Trump and Putin go face to face, and Trump's not happy with Putin now giving him a cold shoulder, like Trump's grandiose plans for Greenland.
Maybe he'll take a page out of Putin's play book and have "Special Military Exercises" around Greenland. NOT in Winter though.
I saw JD Vance went there for a look around. "It's all so White!"
As for his lame excuse of doing it for international security, the Yanks already have a giant Military base in Northern Greenland with many decades of cooperation in a friendly agreementfrom WWII . A Noble USA did defend Greenland through WWII and on til just recently.
That Security thing is just a smoke screen to obscure his real motives I believe licking his chops about the great mining opportunities in Greenland, and it's warming up a bit too. Nice real estate .
I heard Trump also wants the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant too, which is currently held by Russian forces.
I know with Global Warming Artic shipping is easier, like the NW passage. The realms of China and Russia too look to the Wealth the Artic contains.
If in Trump's view taking Greenland by hook or crook is an important international security safe guard, then why not just expand the military bases they already have there. Even put in more in the frozen north of the big island. That'd probably be acceptable to the Greenlanders I think, but it's really not what Trump wants.
I doubt Trump understands that Greenland looks huge on a Mercator map that amplifies global areas the further they are from the equator. Duh!
Adding the most embarrassing sentence: "It's as cold as s..t. Nobody told me!" Would you believe that? How can a man in his position make such a fool of himself?
Yes on the battlefield. Ukraine has done a sterling job holding off the Russian Bear for three years , lets see how he goes against a guy who hates losing and has the muscle behind him to take down the the tyrant his hawkes and the Kremlin once and for all and return Russia to the peace her people crave.
Kram,
, even chatting about alliances without the US, especially without Trump.
No thanks we already export 32% there. Lets find more secure and friendly markets, Japan, Sth Korea? Only 6% of our exports goes to the US of A btw.
for the US Capitalists.
He's an idiot but stock markets have been very expensive.Trump and his chorus are saying the rest of the World is raping and pillaging the US Economy. Yes, many of the US's imports are from foreign nations, but why is that?
Well, many US industries outsourced their manufacturing to Nation's with cheaper Labour costs. It was to make lots of money
So the trade inbalance was mostly the US's own fault, not the third world countries where US money looked to for their big profits. Meagre prices to pay for their manufacturing to be sold in the US for hugely inflated prices. Like Nike shoes.
My modest super nest egg has been cracked open dripping $$$$$ into the ether because of one man. One man.