3% of American expats want to give up their passport
10-29-2014, 02:00 PM
Politics man, politics. If they don't agree to it they lose somewhere else.
If Germany says no, hello to new import tariffs on everything from cars to industrial materials, to whatever else we import from them.
China - ditto. And then some. Think they really care about a few thousand expats when they have billions of dollars in consumer crap ready to export for Walmart?
Saudi is easy - they need our help protecting their monarchy.
Iraq - totally on the ropes begging for help against ISIS (but who would trust an Iraqi bank nowadays anyway?) Same goes for all the dilapidated African countries you would think might be safe places to hide, but they've actually got piles of their own regulations in addition to the status of modern serfs dependent upon foreign aid.
Russia - will see how long they cooperate; if anybody can tell Uncle Sugar to fuck off it's Putin, but it has to be for bigger reasons than this.
The US may be getting flabby but it still has some muscle left. For now.
If Germany says no, hello to new import tariffs on everything from cars to industrial materials, to whatever else we import from them.
China - ditto. And then some. Think they really care about a few thousand expats when they have billions of dollars in consumer crap ready to export for Walmart?
Saudi is easy - they need our help protecting their monarchy.
Iraq - totally on the ropes begging for help against ISIS (but who would trust an Iraqi bank nowadays anyway?) Same goes for all the dilapidated African countries you would think might be safe places to hide, but they've actually got piles of their own regulations in addition to the status of modern serfs dependent upon foreign aid.
Russia - will see how long they cooperate; if anybody can tell Uncle Sugar to fuck off it's Putin, but it has to be for bigger reasons than this.
The US may be getting flabby but it still has some muscle left. For now.