Well hopefully they wont try it again, but there were examples of what US did to countries trying to dedollarize: Libya and Iraq

Fun fact: Those dudes actually have probably less medals than most western officers in same ranks, just the uniform regulations in DPRK require wearing all medals in their full form instead of ribbons while in dress uniforms.

You know, it is one thing to be a malthusian, another to be a malthusian after like 1850, but to also be a fucking stupid malthusian who ignore everything except the simple number is beyond anything i ever seen.

They don't sell only faulty junk, they sell everything they can sell, and also there is a difference between still useful important vassal like Israel and 3rd rate dump like Poland that only ever managed to say "no" to USA twice and one of this times was because antisemitism.

There's also third possiblity: US just sell the faulty junk to their vassals for exorbitant prices because US MIC don't give a flying fuck about wheter US or its vassals win the wars, as long as the junk sells.

Good point, how about this?

Would be nice if my country instead of being US vassal did have better infrastructure.

Pedestrians: "can you please make your cars a little safer for us?"

US carmakers:

"Lets show those dastardly Chinese why we don't have healthcare. Also the rest of the world that not having healthcare is better than having infrastructure!"

Most likely anything Chat GPT will come with is still better than US system.

It wasn't even impossible he really did eat pizza, he lived only century plus some before Persian king Darius and we do have description of Darius soldiers cooking dish that was basically pizza, and since even soldiers knew it, it must been widespread and most likely older.