After years of advocating "America First," President Donald Trump's administration, the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on Friday, "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."It led to a...
Well Qatar literally threatened to sell all of their treasury bonds.
which would have resulted in a permanent 38% drop in the dollar in 24 hours
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.”
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
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.
Sell to whom?
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.
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?”
AI are propaganda machines, check its sources before believing it
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?
Precisely my point. But if it is correct and can link to an authoritative source (eg. a news article), that is relatively easy to verify.
How much you can trust a news article is still up for debate.
so then all the value it brings is the exact same thing search engines have already been doing for decades.
Indeed, not very useful as a search tool IMO
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.
Agreed, I’m more worried about people blindly trusting AI than I am about this particular situation.