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Now everyone knows how weak we are and exactly how to get whatever they want from us.
Go look up how long it took Trump to call Xi after China hit the off button for rare earth metals.
Lol ..... most powerful military in history and all you have to do defeat it is ... threaten to stop investing in them.
Japan threatened it first in the first tarrifs race
That's ridiculous. Qatar holds like a billion or two in US Treasuries, which isn't even a minute's worth of trading volume. Japan, China, UK, all closer to a trillion, would be a serious threat. Even UAE at $100B. But Qatar?
No, if anything this is payback for the nice airplane Qatar gave to "Trump Library."
Tinfoil hat: the threat was just a ruse to provide plausible deniability. The actual reason they are allowed to establish an air base on US soil is because they gave Trump a $400M airplane.
So you have a source? Because this would be amazing to have in a discussion with some maga idiots I know.
Is there a source on that? Not saying it’s not true I’m just having trouble finding anything atm
True or not those numbers are bullshit.
Sell to whom?
Google AI (sorry) indicates this is a false story. "Reports of Qatar threatening to sell all its U.S. Treasury bonds are false. The rumor, which gained some traction in September 2025, appears to have stemmed from a misinterpretation of remarks made by a Qatari official." I asked it, "did qatar threaten to sell all its us treasury bonds?"
how does one even know and verify what an LLM's "sources" are? wouldn't it just vomit out whatever response and then find "sources" that happen to match its stupid output after the fact?
so then all the value it brings is the exact same thing search engines have already been doing for decades.
Ask for the source and read it I suppose?
so then all the value it brings is the exact same thing search engines have already been doing for decades.
Sure, but where are the sources saying it's true what OP stated? It seems harder to prove a rumor.