The negotiator-in-chief will easily haggle that down to $200 trillion.
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2025
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I'm glad that they have the sign language interpreter for those who are traumatized when Fr*nch is spoken.
Pretty sure he's translating it into Italian.
France has nuclear weapons, you guys. We'd better just give them whatever they want, otherwise it might start WW3. WW3, you guys. Literally WW3.
So, it actually was a loan. The debt was effectively sold to an American banker, who resold the debt to America for a profit.
It was the start of a long history of complicated financial shell games that defines American governmental finances.
It’s not like we “stole” their “property” like the Haitians did.
Haitian independence is an underrated history.
Also one of the saddest stories of "We're free, but at what cost?" - France lost the colony, but completely fucked them up for over a century from the "legal debt" alone
They’re eating the frogs and the snails.
Miam !
How many different systems of government have the French had since then?
Including or excluding Nazi occupation and essentially not existing as a nation for half a decade?