Stability and peace, flow of international trade. The same thing that every other country in the middle East besides Iran wants, which is why every conflict in the area is backed by Iran.
Deficit spending simply requires that the economy grows by more than the debt. Generally the US economy grows pretty reliably, so there's that. I would see foreign aid being curtailed before military...
The rest of the world going off the dollar doesn't allow them to "call in debts", it would simply stop (more likely slow) the flow of new foreign purchases of US debt.
Punching a lot, weakly, but not landing anything is the opposite of impressive. Sad. Unfortunately for Ukraine, Russia is actually landing their blows.
I think it might have something to do with a general degradation of their entire air defense network, rather than its component parts. They have a few Patriot sites, so going from a few Patriot sites...
US body armor is designed to stop higher caliber threats and be replaced after it does so a few times. Level IV Ceramic body armor will stop a 7.62x54R round (Standard machine gun ammo for them), or...
So the current trajectory is that Ukraine will sink the Black Sea fleet and Russia will take over all of Ukraine, and the "Ukraine is winning" crowd is happy about this?
Israel should just cede the territory when they're done bombing it, declare the state of Gaza and recognize it diplomatically. Then build a giant wall around it.
Literally rep trading among each other, I believe that he had a long-running "Happy Birthday Neighbor" thread that he built up reps with before revealing himself to be an insufferable troll.