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Not indefinitely. The minute those reserves run dry all bets are off and y'all are in the rapids with no paddle. No fuel fucks the domestic economy on a level that is almost impossible to overstate and the war economy might as well not exist. The US army is the biggest polluter in the world by far for a reason, all that power projection requires gargantuan logistics chains, aircraft carriers, shipping of personnel, fuel for weapons. There's also not a guarantee that allies will still have enough reserves to sell to the US or the willingness to take dollar payments when they can see that they can't project power and the economy is heading for collapse.

Sure, but what happens when the reserves are literally dry, the country swiftly implodes and the stock market blows up and takes the dollar with it? Eventually they have to come down from their numberwang speculative grabathon and grapple with the real economy, the one where you have to manage actual resources and labor.

Cope

I doubt it. You seemed rather eager to clutch at your pearls when you implied tons of people had been clubbed to death.

China won't bomb the US out of the blue. Start worrying about it once the US bombs them first.

Might've meant child marriages, who the fuck knows, it's the US

Heh, I use the self-checkout, dumbass

I bet there's an Alibaba listing somewhere if you're cool with paying more for shipping than you do for your Saddam

It's not fascism unless it's happening to somebody who looks exactly like me and lives somewhere I could see myself living

Jim Cornette looking mf

Cut back on the war

Idk, I think the death penalty is a much more appropriate penalty for white collar criminals than most other things. The amount of misery people can cause for nothing more than a number on a bank account, usually by people who never lacked for anything and knew in advance what would happen? That's the sort of shit that can only be prevented when death to oneself is the penalty.

A pederast, a murderer, a rapist won't be deterred by the death penalty and there's no meaningful redress from their deaths. A banker who sees another banker get fucking fried? Bet you he starts behaving a little better for a good while.

Edit: and you better believe rule compliance becomes a priority if the head of your department can get in deep shit for any corruption done under their watch.