'It is extraordinary that the United States even has one patriotic citizen.'
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: It is increasingly difficult to make sense out of the Trump regime. The president himself has begun speaking as if he is the captain of a pirate ship busy at work looting the world. In a recent social post, Trump said: “We will be taking Kharg Island and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their [Iran’s] Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have done with Venezuela.” And he is also going to steal Greenland and Cuba, because America needs, or deserves, to have them.
The current US national debt is almost $40 trillion. This is a bit more than $114,900 for every person in America, working or not working. This is an amazing debt for Americans forty percent of whom the Federal Reserve says are incapable of covering a check for $400.
Foreign central banks hold about one-third of US national debt as represented by US Treasury bonds. As US Treasuries serve as the reserves of the world’s central banks, US deficits have not been a problem to finance as US debt instruments denominated in US dollars serve as the underpinnings of the world’s banking system.
For a number of years Washington has been working to undermine this support for the US dollar with its aggressive sanctions against other countries. Any foreign central bank that keeps its reserves in US dollars can lose them to American sanctions.







