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Dear Friedrich:

Considering your Country decided not to join my Great Board of Peace, the greatest Global institition for Peace ever, I no longer feel any obligation to hand over your gold reserves, which by the way would look much better in my Ballroom anyway, which will be the most prestigious and BIGGEST Ballroom there ever was in History.

Germany cannot protect that Gold from Russia or China and there are no written documents, it's only that some guy with a funny accent delivered some gold a while ago and we kept it so why do you have a "right of ownership" anyway?

I have done more for Gold than any other person since it was invented, like thousands of years ago, and now, GOLD should do something for me.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

President DJT

I want to see him try that. The moment he puts his filthy hands on someone else's gold, the dollar will collapse. No ifs, no buts, the moment he tries to steal part of the gold he has stored there, everyone will want their gold back and, while at it, they'll cash any bonds they have.

If you can't trust that country to mantain such important agreements, you can't trust it with anything. He'll bankrupt the country in no time.

That would blow up the world financial system, like actually. Not to say he wouldn't do it but that the consequences of doing so would be World historical in nature. I think he already borked European alliance. Greenland was a step too far and now they're serious about decoupling, and not to slowly either

Pretty much, yes. But don't worry, it's not like Trump passed massive tax cuts in his last term that have left the US over leveraged with >100% of GDP in debt and a $1.6T deficit or anything that leaves the US particularly vulnerable to bond sell offs.

Sorry, hang on a second, just getting some news through... Oh. Oh dear. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. Well, it was sort of OK for bits of it anyway.

By the time it actually happens there might be a democrat in charge again who can get all the blame...

Is the USA collapsing in real time?

Yes, the spiral has been going on for awhile now.

Don’t forget about China selling their US bonds off, not too long ago, in what was a “yippy” move from the market.

That actually looks like a Speedrun to it honestly.

Swedish pension fun

I was in a band by that name. Mostly ABBA covers and very angry punk.

Denmark

Fortunately for the US, only a small Danish pension fund. Not the whole country. But one can guess that despite the event being small, people aren't clawing to have US treasury bonds.

It's wild to consider it, but we may be.

The massive escalation in tactics over the last month tells me that the US' finances may be significantly worse than we know, with the desperation to seize mineral resources, even in the knowledge that diplomatic cooperation could achieve the same ends.

"OUR GOLD, at this time of year, at this time of day, localized entirely to your vaults?"

"Yes!"

"Can I see it?"

"No."

And now!?!!?! Of all times, they should have done it on Biden's presidency. Does anyone believe Trump will just agree like that. The guy is going to use it as hostage.

I think its mostly that Russia has proved its just not a major threat. Yes Ukraine is getting weapons and funding from many other countries but the fact is if Russia had a fraction of the power we thought they did for a long time the qar would have been over before the aid even made it to the country.

Not only have we never seen your gold, Dear Leader is now several billion dollars' worth of gold richer. Coincidentally

WTF happened in 1971‽‽

Trump has sticky fingers

The country has sticky fingers.