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Europe could 'weaponize' $10T of US assets over Greenland

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-19/-weaponizing-10-trillion-of-us-assets-is-tough-ask-for-europe
39•saubeidl•1h ago

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saubeidl•1h ago
https://archive.ph/S918n
aebtebeten•53m ago
> only if foreign holders of US assets are willing to suffer financially

As a foreign-domiciled holder of US assets, my vibe is that losing the rule of law would indirectly lead to significantly more financial suffering.

How well did bond-holders fare, getting out of the last Lebensraum era?

ratelimitsteve•6m ago
you're thinking systemically. chaosh ish a ladder, shansha. this will lead to overall downturns in everything but pockets of extreme windfall for people well positioned to either sell the US the supplies it needs to engage in war all the time against everyone or to distribute looted assets, and those are the people influencing the decision the most.
nemomarx•15m ago
If open war breaks out with Europe, wouldn't these assets end up frozen anyway? It doesn't seem like weaponization to hedge that risk.
dmk•14m ago
Living in the EU, I'm skeptical any of this happens. Our leaders have been pretty reluctant to push back on anything so far and most of these assets are private anyway.
baby•14m ago
Why are Americans letting their country go rogue internationally and risk going to war with Europe, Canada, or South America?
nemomarx•10m ago
If you can think of a good way to stop it happening before the midterms, I'm all ears.
saubeidl•4m ago
You could do as the Ukrainians did for a start : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan
JasonADrury•3m ago
You, or really anyone, could simply assassinate POTUS.
ssully•9m ago
I keep trying to call the White House to express my disapproval but they just call me a dumb lib and send a gang of ICE officers to my neighborhood to kidnap my neighbors.
ratelimitsteve•8m ago
we're in the streets every day being brutalized by the regimes masked, armed thugs. what else would you like from us?
embedding-shape•6m ago
When Americans have said the same about Russians for a decade, who gave you the same response, what did the Americans reply?
ratelimitsteve•3m ago
you know, if i say one thing and a different american says a different thing that doesn't make us hypocrites, it makes us two different people
testfrequency•7m ago
The edgy conservatives who frequent HN these days will be notably silent in offering a response to this.

They don’t view anything that is going on as incorrect or “the wrong direction”.

lenerdenator•5m ago
"Why are Americans"

If you think the average American has any real control over what comes out of the White House these days, I have some ocean-front property in Kansas City to sell you.

ummonk•11m ago
"Could". Of course they'll drag their feet once again because they're appeasing cowards, unlike Canadians.
ratelimitsteve•9m ago
the entire world of neoliberal ghouls will bend over for trump because they've all quietly been offered a share of what he loots
cudgy•7m ago
Isn’t Europe full of neoliberal ghouls stoking war with Russia, blowing up pipelines, and cheering on rogue nations like Israel?
ratelimitsteve•4m ago
perpetual war is great for neoliberalism because it forces public spending on private, consumable goods. no matter how many bombs you buy today you're gonna need more tomorrow, it's in the nature of bombs.
cudgy•9m ago
Won’t flooding the market with large supply of bonds being sold at one time cause the price of the bonds to drop, resulting in losses for the sellers of the bonds?

Meanwhile, the bond holders that don’t sell, can wait it out until the bond pays out or the selling mania stops, and the price returns to equilibrium.

cowpig•6m ago
Does this play into his supporters' agenda?

Trump's policies seem to be aimed at devaluing USD and harming the US and its allies.

I guess maybe this pressures the other powers that be in the US that don't take the threat seriously to do more to stop him?

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