If the USA behaves aggressively in any way, let alone militarily attacks other countries because they don’t want to route their trade through a US controlled racket, almost the entire world will be united against us.
The anglo-media(US/UK) is badly misleading the America people about how much support our gov’t has in the “international community” and downplaying the massive resentment that most people in the world feel about decades of Fed Gov coercion, bullying and thuggery.
Most countries in the world would like to see the US taken down a notch and their governments only pretend to like our government because of all the coercion and bullying that happens behind the scenes.
We are not in a posistion to act the way our gov’t has been.
Debt does matter, despite what Paul Krugman or Dick Cheney want you to think.
To put the remark by Cheney into context, he said that back when it was only a couple hundred or so billion. Still too high, but manageable.