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DemocratSinceBirth

(101,705 posts)
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:54 PM Jan 17

*** 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 Jan 17 OP
European countries Traildogbob Jan 17 #1
Few European governments will hold significant amounts of US debt - it'll be banks, pension funds and so on muriel_volestrangler Jan 17 #6
Well Traildogbob Jan 17 #7
Mob boss protection money gab13by13 Jan 17 #2
All the effin tariffs will be ruled illegal next week malaise Jan 17 #3
Dear Malaise choie Jan 17 #10
They know a lame -uck when they see one 😀 malaise Jan 17 #11
I hope you're right! choie Jan 17 #12
I hope so too malaise Jan 17 #13
People of Greenland can't wait pwb Jan 17 #4
And our treatment of Natives has been horrific Arazi Jan 17 #14
'standoff'? - - I thought the only 'constraints' on action were the glorious stopdiggin Jan 17 #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 Jan 17 #8
Uh, are we really gonna push them to dump treasuries? SamuelTheThird Jan 17 #9
The EU is cancelling their just-agreed-upon trade deal with the US Arazi Jan 17 #15
Time for TACO to step in and end this thing. TACO knows best! thought crime Jan 17 #17
BULLY! Totally Tunsie Jan 17 #16

muriel_volestrangler

(105,834 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
Jan 17
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

(12,726 posts)
7. Well
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 03:18 PM
Jan 17

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

(6,801 posts)
10. Dear Malaise
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 04:10 PM
Jan 17

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

malaise

(294,169 posts)
11. They know a lame -uck when they see one 😀
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 04:27 PM
Jan 17

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

pwb

(12,549 posts)
4. People of Greenland can't wait
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 02:01 PM
Jan 17

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

stopdiggin

(15,166 posts)
5. 'standoff'? - - I thought the only 'constraints' on action were the glorious
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 02:04 PM
Jan 17

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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Arazi

(8,777 posts)
15. The EU is cancelling their just-agreed-upon trade deal with the US
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 06:04 PM
Jan 17

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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