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The Americans have had many options for weakening the dollar while simultaneously quelling domestic dissent. Aka, turn on the money printer and forgive various debts or lower their interest rates (student loans, credit card loans, even mortgages would be big ones). They could even literally just force powell to lower the fed rates (what would he do if ICE showed up at this office?).
All of these things would be percieved as even less hostile than the Americans buying up foreign debt, and would directly contribute to creating the kind of healthy and financially stable workforce that would be needed for re-industrialization.
Thankfully, or not so thankfully, the American ruling class has become incapable of compromise, and intends on giving us a show.