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If the deep state controls Assad's launch orders, I have no idea why the past 16 years have been so unrelentingly grim for the US's fortunes.

• narrator 10y ago
  It could have been a lot worse. How big is our trade deficit annually? What if we couldn't run a trade deficit?
  • nstj 10y ago
    China would have been thrown into chaos in that case.
    • narrator 10y ago
      ...because they wouldn't have had dollars to buy oil. What if they didn't need dollars and could use local currency?