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If another country were to force us into debt intentionally by sabotage, wouldn't that be a hostile act?

Even if you could actually prove Trump was an asset of a specific other nation (and given his total lack of shame about everything, I don't see how he'd be able to keep his mouth shut about it if he was), mere debt isn't what would count as such because the US has been arguing with itself about that for a very long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_debt_ceiling

That said, a president threatening war without Congressional approval is already bad, doing so with with a friendly nation is worse, doing so when US is bound to a mutual defence alliance with that nation by a treaty signed by Congress where Congress also passed an extra law to prevent the nation leaving that treaty* is "why have they not removed him from office yet?" territory.

* Section 1250A, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2670

Did anyone ask Trump whether he thinks that he and Bush are fiscal conservatives?

What is fiscal conservatism?

What is accountability?

Can a person be fiscally conservative if they intend to force the government into debt by deceasing revenue and increasing expenses?

So they're more of a social conservative to think that it's the business of government to impose morality despite strict constructionism conservatism?

As a Brit living in Germany, I neither know nor care about such minutiae.

I really only care about the question "is Trump going to directly or indirectly harm someone I know even though I live on a different continent?", with a few specific variants such as "will he cause the US to violate treaty obligations?" and "will the trans passport issue harm my trans Canadian friend?" and "will his hatred of green energy damage the global environment?" and "will his preference for Russia over Ukraine allow Russia to become a threat to all the EU?" and so on.

Odd that Manafort was paid tens of millions by the former president of Ukraine and is also pardoned by Trump, who he is an advisor of.

Odd that Internet Research Agency (Prigozhin, Putin) were paying for info ops to get Trump elected.

Likes flying to Scotland and hotels in Russia on a gold-plated plane after multiple bankruptcies.

FWIU there was unpaid debt to Deutsche Bank of over $400m as recently as 2016.

Trump could not get a loan in 2016 without underwriting it himself, due to having defaulted on so much debt.

Will they be able to negotiate peace and arms treaties as dutifully obligated?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035266 :

> Bannon's company Cambridge Analytica was a subsidiary of SCL Group, a British psyops/infoops firm that explicitly intended to tamper in foreign elections.

> US money paid to such firms also paid for Brexit.

SCL Group Trump: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Scl%20group%20t...

SCL Group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCL_Group

> Mercer, Bannon, Nix, EmerData, Prince

It doesn't look like it was possible to contain the Ballstein Battenmount situation.

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