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Re:The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable by jacquesm on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:12PM (#46670425)
Not to help you with your sleeping patterns but: a toddler that could overnight decide to instruct US hosting providers and other infrastructure companies that they can no longer serve EU customers, that the .COM registry domains can only be registered by US entities, that any country owes the US any part of its territory 'or else'. The Nobel Prize is a footnote, it should have never happened, but there are much worse threats on the horizon.
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Re:The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable by samiv on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:25PM (#46670603)
The "or else" is actually on rather shaky grounds considering the national debt. For the sake of argument if certain countries decided to stop buying US treasury bonds the federal state would be insolvent about 5s later. Certainly a default of that size would destroy the economy in every single country pretty much except maybe Cuba and North Korea.

The EU (and Europe) will have to lean East until Germany remilitarizes. US will find itself alone with enemies on all sides.

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Re:The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable by jacquesm on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:29PM (#46670638)
You're suggesting semi-rational behavior from a non-rational actor. That might not work out.
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Re:The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable by lazide on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:31PM (#46670659)
Everything he does is on shaky ground. The whole idea is to confuse and destabilize so none of them can get contested in time.
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Re:The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable by pegasus on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:24PM (#46670593)
They did mention the toddler in question is leader of a major power, so I don't think what you're saying is going to surprise GP.
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Re:The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable by jacquesm on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:31PM (#46670664)
Most leaders of major powers are reasonably sane. This one may wake up in the middle of the night with a bad case of indigestion and order it so.

I'm pretty sure that if any one of those three comes to pass a lot of people will be surprised and caught flat footed.

And there will be nobody that stops it.

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Re:The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable by pjc50 on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:18PM (#46670498)
Yeah, every time something like this happens, it becomes more necessary to boycott US services simply because you cannot guarantee their continuity or non politicization.
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