Europa kann seine 8-Billionen-Dollar-Waffe „Amerika verkaufen“ einsetzen, während Trump einen Handelskrieg wegen seiner Ambitionen zur Eroberung Grönlands neu entfacht: „Europäische Länder besitzen US-Anleihen und Aktien im Wert von 8 Billionen US-Dollar, fast doppelt so viel wie der Rest der Welt zusammen.“

There are many levers to pull.

Personally I’m boycotting the USA till it becomes better.

From the article:

As the European Union weighs options to retaliate against Donald Trump’s latest tariffs, its most potent weapon may be in financial markets.

France is already urging the EU to deploy its “anti-coercion instrument,” which can target foreign direct investment and finance as well as trade.

The U.S. has a key vulnerability the EU can exploit, according to George Saravelos, head of FX research at Deutsche Bank. “Europe owns Greenland, it also owns a lot of treasuries,” he said.

Holding these bonds helps balance America’s massive external deficits, and Europe is the world’s biggest lender to the U.S.

“European countries own $8 trillion of U.S. bonds and equities, almost twice as much as the rest of the world combined,” Saravelos pointed out. “In an environment where the geoeconomic stability of the western alliance is being disrupted existentially, it’s not clear why Europeans would be as willing to play this part.”

Since Trump is wielding this tariff power on his own, doesn’t it make sense for the pushback to be on his personal European golf courses, hotels, and assets?

Economic analysis: A sudden, massive sell-off of $4 trillion in US securities would likely trigger an immediate financial crisis including a spike in interest rates, collapse of the dollar’s value, stock market decline, drop in pension funds and 401Ks, choke off consumer spending, and if the US Treasury wasn’t able to find enough buyers federal spending would necessarily stop. In short, a sharp, uncontrolled global economic downturn.

Don’t forget Canada has 328 Billion in bonds to sell too

I could totally see EU governments ***initially*** being reluctant to demand repayment for their US bonds, since it would devalue the USD, resulting in an economic loss for that government.

But then someone would point out that the more EU countries demand repayment, the more the USD would be devalued, which means countries demanding repayment sooner would take less of a loss than countries which demand repayment later (assuming they re-invested the repayment immediately).

At that point, EU political leaders (as well as leaders of non-EU countries) would see it as their responsibility to demand repayment of their bonds as soon as possible, to minimize that loss. It would be kind of like a [bank run.](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_run)

Do it. I live here and I’m telling you, do it. Punish this place. There’s a huge number of people in this country that are completely A-OK with being Nazis, with fascism, with racism and everything else that’s going on.

Crush this country through whatever means you have available, and be prepared to militarily oppose attempts by China and Russia and Iran and Saudi Arabia who will immediately try to fill the void. But I think the result of leaving this place as it stands now is another world war. This government and these people running it right now need a reckoning, and their corporate masters need to be shown that lootonomics has as its price the killing of the golden goose.

And closing army bases. No intelligence sharing. That would really be the end of relations however.

The problem is that that is a magic trick that can only be performed once, and that would hurt Europe as well. Trump could be around for three more years, so there is a point to keep the powder dry.

Do it. I’m so sick of all the threats and no action.

Cash them out and watch the markets collapse and interest go way up since no one will buy US bonds.
But hey, the bread lines in the 1920’s will pale in comparison.

Sell off 10% of the held debt now then threaten to raise it to 25% by June if the US doesn’t agree to back off Greenland and reduce all tariffs to the European and NATO allies.

The before that is dedollarization, and could happen much faster and with fewer consequences by the countries who decide to go that route. The US is losing a lot of the power granted to them by post WW2 inertia.

Some poor fucker has the job of trying to explain things like this to Trump. It’s the most thankless and pointless task in existence but I guess it pays well. 

Its actually quite impressive that the tangerine turd has managed to unite almost everyone against USA…

to see the danish representatives from the far-left to the far-right in the european parlement actually agree on ANYTHING, let alone that enouh is enough and USA must face dire concequences!

guess there is a first time for everything…

(At this point, demographically, I think there might actually be more flat-earth’ers than pro-america people in scandinavia…)

For all of those „china owns the american debt“ jackasses, this is what the national debt actually looks like.

No wonder he hates the EU. If the UK can do the right thing with the EU, then they could shut his deranged mouth up.

Isn’t there a saying: If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.

As an American, who’s already repressed enough by the bs corporate machine, do it. Sell America. I want it all to crash. I want retirement savings to mean nothing. I want the market to flatline. I want it to hurt, bad.

Because it’s the only way America “might” learn. I’m not even convinced they’ll actually learn their lesson from it. But honestly, it’s what the elite deserve.

As an American, go for it.

No amount of coddling will stop this dictator.