Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries

Post by jimnotgym » Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 5:08 PM UTC

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My guess would be EUR takes its place, gold will also be used more. I guess what happens is USD gets much weaker and US buying power goes down. Maybe destroying the USD will eventually cause the boost to domestic manufacturing that Trump wanted, since foreign goods will be out of reach. Cut down the forest to kill a squirrel. I'm no expert though

Historically, gold’s day in the sun is always juuust around the corner, right after the disastrous collapse that never quite arrives. Now that we really do have a destructive realignment underway, maybe gold will actually be useful again. I doubt it, but I’m no currency expert.

Post by brightball » Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 5:10 PM UTC

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You're assuming NATO is somehow critical for the US. It is not. NATO is critical for the European powers (those not named Russia). The US doesn't require it. The US doesn't need to defend Europe any longer. And it's clear the Europeans don't want the US there, so it works out great. Europe can boost its defense spending by ~$300 billion to make up the difference, or not, whatever they choose to do is up to them. The…

The US does not benefit from a stronger, more unified Europe. Thanks to NATO, "the west" has effectively become an empire in all but name, with the US having enough influence to be the de facto leaders of this empire. If US pulls back from NATO, and Europe builds up military power to compensate, then the US loses this de facto leadership seat of an empire. Today, the US appears in parallel to be doing two things: 1.…

Post by fooster » Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 5:11 PM UTC

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Chinese are Canadian adversaries mostly because of the US. The US more or less forced Canada to hold Meng Wanzhou, which caused a huge rise in diplomatic tensions and cost Canada billions. Some thanks we got for that.

Doesn't China own most of the real estate in Canada. Did USA cause that

Post by epolanski » Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 5:12 PM UTC

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There's no chance US will default on its debts, all it has to do is to print more money. Inflation may spirale, but it's going to be a US citizens problems (as well as US bond holders) in terms of inflation and budget cuts.

If the US invades Greenland, and is at war with Denmark, will it still pay its debts to a Dane?

Post by whimsicalism » Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 5:14 PM UTC

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Correct, I assumed others would understand I meant since the last civil war. Edited the comment to clear up my intent. Thank you.

It's still absurd. Today isn't close to what we saw during the depression or the 70s or desegregation or the Rodney King riot. Besides that, there's no plausible fault line in the military or any sort of ethnic or religious or regional fault line where two sides could form to fight each other.