Saudi Arabia threatens to sell $750 billion in Treasuries in response to 9/11 Bill

[BvBPL]

This is all just bluster anyway. The bill allowing this isn't going to be passed.

 

[CavLancer]

If the politicians pass this the money they are paid in will become devalued? No, they won't pass it.

 

[Hygro]

All I know is that if this happens, this is gonna be a goooooood time to live in London.

 

[r16]

and of course it's reported in Turkey the people who put the bill into consideration are taking it down for not giving due thinking on it . Supposedly because Turkey can sue them over American support for the Syrian branch of the seperatists . Barack spineless jerk Hussein is a good actor , though , he was like making a gaffe when he made a call for the Gulf Arabs to increase their contributions to ISIL . Before immediately stopping and correcting it as the fight against ISIL .

 

[Arakhor]

Barack spineless jerk Hussein

Well, that really showed him. He's probably forgotten that he has a middle name by now.

 

[r16]

well , you got to make sure . Was to call him His Spineless Majesties , like to show respect to the dumbos who insist the US is not like after killing us all .

 

[Arakhor]

"the US is not like after killing us all"? Right...

 

[EnglishEdward]

I understand that the Saudis had run up a budget deficit,
and so will have to sell some US Treasuries anyway.

I would hate them to buy pounds sterling instead,
and thereby push up an over-valued currency.

 

[daft]

When will the US Government finally become transparent and reveal all of the "CLASSIFIED" information they are withholding from their own citizens?
Afraid the populace will be angry?

What a wonderful "democracy" you got down there Americans, really appalling.

 

[Hygro]

If it wasn't for American hegemony the rest of you blokes would still be fighting world wars every 25 years. FREEDOM ISN'T FREE.

 

[Ajidica]

If it wasn't for American hegemony the rest of you blokes would still be fighting world wars every 25 years. FREEDOM ISN'T FREE.

Considering that WWII was largely a response to the threat of American hegemony and it played a not-inconsequential role in both escalating and prolonging WWI I'd have to say not really.
Europeans had gotten very good at killing each other but America, like all things, made it bigger with a sexed-up sequel with more explosions.

When will the US Government finally become transparent and reveal all of the "CLASSIFIED" information they are withholding from their own citizens?
Afraid the populace will be angry?

What a wonderful "democracy" you got down there Americans, really appalling.

The Belgians are still sitting on records that would implicate them in the overthrow and execution of a democratically elected prime minister, so you might as well get angry at all governments for sitting on information rather than singling out USA #1!

 

[FriendlyFire]

If it wasn't for American we would have a German / Japanese hegemony the rest of you blokes would still be fighting world wars every 25 years. FREEDOM FINAL SOLUTIONS ISN'T FREE.

Fixed !
The man in the high castle is pretty awesome alternative history

 

[EnglishEdward]

If it wasn't for American hegemony the rest of you blokes would still be fighting world wars every 25 years.

Against whom?

After the devastation of WW2 the British, Chinese, French, Germans,
Italians, Japanese and Russians all wanted to rebuild not have another war.

For everyone except the USA, WW2 was a loss.

 

[Hygro]

If France didn't have neutron bombs Germany would find an excuse to invade it again.

 

[Kyriakos]

It is rather obvious that nuclear weapons are the reason there has been no pan-european war since ww2.

Besides, without nuclear weapons the warsaw pact would include virtually all of the continent.

 

[CavLancer]

Can't argue with that. The NATO nations of Europe couldn't be bothered fielding a serious force. The Soviets would have rolled right over us if it were not for fear of nukes.

 

[EnglishEdward]

There were 99 years of no pan-European wars between 1815 and 1914.

In fact if one disregards peripheral (such as the Crimean war) and civil wars (break up
of Yugoslavia), there were only four significant wars in Europe in the last 200 years:

Prusso-Austrian War
Franco-Prussian War
WW1
WW2

all caused essentially by Prusso-German aggression.

As I think the Germans have learnt their lessons from losing
the last two; there is now no reason for war in Europe.

And so all this talk about the USA and the EU
preventing war is really overrated nonsense.

 

[dutchfire]

Sonderweg!

And no love for the Belgian war of independence?

(And the Crimean War was not in Europe, surely)

 

[astrallite]

Fixed !
The man in the high castle is pretty awesome alternative history

Germany would have lost to Russia even American hadn't intervened. If anything the U.S. opening a second front on Western Front saved all of Europe from falling behind the Iron Curtain. The only reason Germany got as far as they did was due to military leadership purges in Russia and surprise attack the Russians didn't anticipate. Russian manufacturing and war production severely dwarfed Germany's war capacity, it was simply a gambit by Hitler to attack a sleeping bear that did not pay off.

As far as Japan goes, Japan is a far more powerful nation today as a result of fighting the United States then if they hadn't.

They had no way to expand without attacking the United States. Due to the oil embargo, the only way to the oil fields in Indonesia was through the Philippines. If Japan had not attacked Pearl Harbor (and subsequently taken over the Philippines), they would've been a modern day Iran, facing international sanctions till this day for invading China, and eventually the Chinese would have driven the Japanese out from sheer numbers and support from the U.S. aid.

The United States was the manufacturing powerhouse of the world in the 1930s and 1940s. It produced about 60% of the world's manufactured goods and represented more than than half of all the war production in the entire world during WWII, despite being the war for only 4.5 years (whereas most of the antagonists had been fighting since the 1930s). American factories and shipyards by 1943 monthly were producing more tons of military hardware than Japan and Germany had managed throughout the entire war. The idea that either of those countries would be long term hegemonic powers is pretty laughable, considering their shared immediate neighbor (Russia) was more powerful their either of them, and Japan had to deal with American naval power in the Pacific.

 

[r16]

"the US is not like after killing us all"? Right...

it really looks different when you live in Turkey . Nobody has an obligation to like us , nor accept our "right" to exist . His Spineless Majesties merely conducts the affairs with a slovenliness that should infuriate anyone concerned . Dillying and dallying here and there , but then to explain all that would take an effort that's really tiresome to write all that ; ı can't write a 5000 pages book on a single night , or two or three . But then he won two elections , unlike his precedessor ... He must look like good to people "taking some part in the US politics " ; but the thing is he was only because Bush II kinda bankrupted the US and followed the example of his father , Bush I and let an inconsequential Dem to keep the place warm for the duration . Clinton was a surprise ; that he would carry on the plans for the destruction of Turkey was a given but actually he kinda attempted to do good for the rest of the planet . Washington played the same angle for the spineless jerk , but as you see he has failed even in that . Bush III for 2020 and there needs to be Rodham in charge ...