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DemocratSinceBirth

(101,659 posts)
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:54 PM 13 hrs ago

*** Breaking News*** TSF To Impose 10% Tarrif On European Countries Over Standoff Over Greenland

If we go ahead and invade Greenland how is that not different than Hitler invading Poland or Il Duce invading Abyssinia?

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*** Breaking News*** TSF To Impose 10% Tarrif On European Countries Over Standoff Over Greenland (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth 13 hrs ago OP
European countries Traildogbob 12 hrs ago #1
Few European governments will hold significant amounts of US debt - it'll be banks, pension funds and so on muriel_volestrangler 12 hrs ago #6
Well Traildogbob 11 hrs ago #7
Mob boss protection money gab13by13 12 hrs ago #2
All the effin tariffs will be ruled illegal next week malaise 12 hrs ago #3
Dear Malaise choie 10 hrs ago #10
They know a lame -uck when they see one 😀 malaise 10 hrs ago #11
I hope you're right! choie 10 hrs ago #12
I hope so too malaise 9 hrs ago #13
People of Greenland can't wait pwb 12 hrs ago #4
And our treatment of Natives has been horrific Arazi 9 hrs ago #14
'standoff'? - - I thought the only 'constraints' on action were the glorious stopdiggin 12 hrs ago #5
How do we know TFS is really behind this or just his minions coming up with this shit? Miller comes to mind..nt mitch96 11 hrs ago #8
Uh, are we really gonna push them to dump treasuries? SamuelTheThird 10 hrs ago #9
The EU is cancelling their just-agreed-upon trade deal with the US Arazi 8 hrs ago #15
Time for TACO to step in and end this thing. TACO knows best! thought crime 8 hrs ago #17
BULLY! Totally Tunsie 8 hrs ago #16

Traildogbob

(12,613 posts)
1. European countries
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:59 PM
12 hrs ago

can call in our debt and destroy us. How will that keep billionaires to be billionaires?

muriel_volestrangler

(105,636 posts)
6. Few European governments will hold significant amounts of US debt - it'll be banks, pension funds and so on
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 02:29 PM
12 hrs ago
https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/shla2023r.pdf Table 6 says "foreign official" holdings by "Advanced Foreign Economies" of all "US securities" were about $3 trillion in 2023, compared with $16.6 trillion "foreign private". Even if that $3 trillion is all government debt (as opposed to corporate debt, or equity), the total of US treasury and agency debt was $34 trillion (Table 3) - so all advance governments (and this includes Japan, for instance) own about 9% of US government debt at most.

And remember, you can't just "call in" government debt; what you can do is not roll it over as it matures. It would take years to reduce that $3 trillion by a significant amount.

Traildogbob

(12,613 posts)
7. Well
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 03:18 PM
11 hrs ago

That makes me feel so much better. Guess we just need to buy our red hats.
But thank you for the detailed explanation. That option was not very promising anyway. The roller coaster of hope then reality destroying each flicker of hope is exhausting. Stick a fork in us.
Long Live King Miller.
After serving 8 years thinking we are so much better than this, worth risking my life to protect it, to realize a fat old man and a Jewish Natzeee would take us down so easily. With their media.
When does the Happy begin for this New Year everyone was wishing each other a few weeks back?
Wish we could just sell Donny Johnny to them for the blubber and save a few dozen Whales (with a “W” of course)




choie

(6,680 posts)
10. Dear Malaise
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 04:10 PM
10 hrs ago

I think you may be too optimistic in thinking that the SC is going to rule against the orange bastard.

malaise

(293,208 posts)
11. They know a lame -uck when they see one 😀
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 04:27 PM
10 hrs ago

Big Corporations still rule - he’s effin up the global economy

pwb

(12,475 posts)
4. People of Greenland can't wait
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 02:01 PM
12 hrs ago

to join us and have no health insurance and a sub-living wage...It would be a big move down for them. IMO.

Arazi

(8,735 posts)
14. And our treatment of Natives has been horrific
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 05:26 PM
9 hrs ago

Almost the entire population of Greenland are Inuit

stopdiggin

(15,073 posts)
5. 'standoff'? - - I thought the only 'constraints' on action were the glorious
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 02:04 PM
12 hrs ago

and divine one's imagination and moral underpinnings?

And now I'm confused .. ? Why would it matter what European countries thought?

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mitch96

(15,675 posts)
8. How do we know TFS is really behind this or just his minions coming up with this shit? Miller comes to mind..nt
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 03:45 PM
11 hrs ago

Arazi

(8,735 posts)
15. The EU is cancelling their just-agreed-upon trade deal with the US
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 06:04 PM
8 hrs ago

Looks like the EU-US trade deal is now dead, with all three major groups in the EU Parliament calling at least for suspension. The downward spiral has already begun.

Nicolai von Ondarza (@nvondarza.bsky.social) 2026-01-17T22:27:45.795Z
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