Kiwi, though Scandinavian countries in many ways are better than us.
Aussies...have some things better but their racism towards the Aborigines is bad.
I have been to the USA about 10 times, both for work and holidays (the tourist trap cities).
Closest to China I have been to China is HongKong before China started becoming aggressive there, won't be back.
Been to lots of EU countries too.
ZERO sympathy for Russia, though I do work with some Russian people, and they are wonderful.
I also have US friends who I do not judge because of Trump (not that they would vote for the pedo anyway)
That is internal money, they are losing the export market to the EU and Canada, the thing that brings in the money so the US can afford it toys.
That is hundreds of billions, for the US to cover it they will be taking out more debt.
Debt repayments are already costing the US more than the military budget, and increasing...
US inflation is higher than expected and will stay high, growth is falling, US borrowing is the highest ever (US$2 Trillion a year)
Cost of US bonds is higher = more cost for the US to pay interest on
Countries are dumping US bonds
Countries are taking their gold home
EU is setting up their own credit card system
BRICS is taking another big bite
Palantir has been banned from the EU
EUis working on replacing MS
EU has licensed Googles tech and will be running their own cloud servers
EU is dropping military spending in the USA , so is Canada.
EU, Japan and others are pulling money from US bonds
EU and others have repatriated gold back to their home countries
Where are Canadas 8 submarine coming from ? That would be Germany I believe
Same with the Gripen fighters, Canada is not buying US
And they get to make them in Canada...
Aircraft refuelling tankers, those would be Airbus now, so EU not buying US
Radar surveillance aircraft, not US ones anymore
The list goes on....
So yeah, the numbers do indeed "add up", the US is losing customers fast.
The EU has shown moving to the green economy will have a 7-1 pay off, especially when Trump does something stupid in the middle east.
Electric cars and solar panels ARE the sensible choice.
Counties are not going to able to afford the impact climate change will bring, whole communities will need to be relocated, food production will be reduced, tropical diseases will impact countries that had been free of them, and so on.
That is another "debt" that my Grandkids will start having to pay for. I suspect WW3 will be over food and water resources.
Like North Korea, Russia, China, Pakistan, India, Israel, and the USA... those terrorists ?
And with the US walking away from the Budapest Memorandum , they proved to the world that guarantees of "protection are not worth the paper it is written on, the Ukraine would have been safe if it kept the Nukes.
And in the current climate, other countries may well feel they need protection FROM the USA.