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Trump Suggests He Can Use the Military on Bond Markets: ‘If We Have To Use That, We Will’
(www.mediaite.com)
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Subtext: if you dump your treasuries/US bond holdings you get invaded and/or bombed.
That is your opinion of what he might have meant if his brain were working. In reality, we have no idea what he means, and neither does he.
I mean.... Good luck, USA? Doesn't seem like a really viable strategy.