• GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Yeah, it’s a kind of mutual destruction tool.

    However, if they were dumped, the EU would suffer financially, but Trump would not be able to simply continue, as the US economy would crumble.

    The EU is the biggest lender to the US. The only reason the US is able to continue is due to all the borrowing.

    The US has the largest external debt in the world, and the EU alone funded more than half of it.

    The US couldn’t continue without the money from the EU.

    This is one thing that Americans seem to be unable to grasp and think that the USA is/was funding the EU somehow, when on reality the USA just keeps borrowing more and more.

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      10 hours ago

      No, it wouldn’t stop the US. Russia’s economy is crumbling, but they can manage to keep fighting for several years now. A collapsing economy doesn’t stop wars. It only makes them harder. The threat can stop one potentially though.

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        The only reason Russia is able to continue is because they have a completely different economy to the USA.

        Once capitalism crumbles, the USA will fall.

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          8 hours ago

          Dude, Russia has been a capitalist nation for decades. It’s the exact same kind of economy. Arguably they have a different form of governance, with Putin as a dictator. I don’t think we’re that far apart with that right now though.