Confiscate foreign investment? Already happened. USA robbed Russias bank accounts of 300 billion dollars. The whole world stood up and took notice. Why do you think there is such a push for BRICS? Which will have its own currency that the Americans can't touch.

Well, your buying power would be crippled.

So clueless.

The fact is that the trade imbalance is the largest single factor that makes the US dollar the world currency -- and also helps to keep the federal debt cheap. All of those countries that have a trade surplus with us send us lots of goods and in exchange they get lots of dollars. What do they do with them? They buy US-denominated securities, including treasury bonds. So many people and organizations around the world holding large reserves of US-denominated securities is what makes the dollar the world's default currency.

To the extent that he succeeds at "correcting" the trade imbalance, he'll undermine the dollar's status. And trying to bully countries into sticking with the dollar by threatening action that will make the dollar worth less to them is just... clueless. And that's assuming his actions to explode the debt while escalating financing costs doesn't result in enormous devaluation of the dollar, which would make it worthless rather than just worth less.

On balance I think I'm mostly glad that Trump is a moron, because if he weren't he would be really dangerous. On the other hand, if he had either a brain or the humility to listen to people who do, he might understand that he's trying to destroy what he's trying to control, and that winning that sort of game is losing. Probably not, though. He's amoral enough to be okay with ruling over a relative wasteland, because he and his will be better off.

This has been going on for a long time, the headline/summary make it sound like this is something new. Kurzgesagt did a recent video on this, How Nuclear Flies Protect You from Flesh-Eating Parasites

If only Democrats were capable of lying. If they had lied and said they knew what a woman is, all of this could have been avoided and Officer Harris could be back to jailing black men for weed.

Democrats don't know what a woman is. in the beginning, God made zman in the image of himself. That's overtly hostile. But come on, we already know what Democrats, Europeans and the entire world think of American Christians.

Covid. Gov : " A lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is the most likely origin of COVID-19. Current government mechanisms for overseeing this dangerous gain-of-function research are incomplete, severely convoluted, and lack global applicability."

This will weaken the fascist racist US state and can only be applauded.

Haha. Americans are bigots and can't stand living in other countries. It's the smell. BTW European research funding is a joke.

The USA was always a fascist world bully that nobody wanted. Now these racists are getting what they deserve? Excellent!NIH lied about COVID-19 as COVID.gov tells us in fact checked truth.

Understand this is not what it seems. This is the swamp being drained by Trump and the swamp doesn't like it one bit. This swamp is utterly hostile to the American people, as the COVID fraud revealed. See COVId.gov "By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasnâ(TM)t."

Those basket of deplorables get what they deserve.

That's not real fascism. Real fascism has never been tried.

The best and the brightest know what a woman is. Those universities that don't know can be refunded with no loss. Ukraine, the most corrupt country in Europe with Nazis? Hard pass. We gave them so much and they still lost. Losers. Antisemitic bastards.

Sure, itâ(TM)s quite possible for two people to exchange offhand remarks about the local weather apropos of nothing, with no broader point in mind. It happens all the time, even, I suppose, right in the middle of a discussion of the impact of climate change on the very parameters they were discussing.