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by Muromec 165 days ago
>at least we are not throwing away our status as a superpower for the dumbest of reasons.

If you would choose to believe, all of this is a strategic play to get off the resource curse (aka the Dutch disease), with resources in question being trust and US dollar being the world currency.

Throwing that away may be a good thing for US long term.