[Wissa]

...thanks to his sheer economic heft, Uncle Sam has a ton of money to throw at anything he sets his mind to.

Our credit card has no limit. It's right there in the Constitution. Section 4 of the 14th amendment.

[Zhang Fei]

[Our credit card has no limit. It’s right there in the Constitution. Section 4 of the 14th amendment. ]

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Nothing to do with the credit card. There are 21 trillion reasons every year why people lend to Uncle Sam. The US has almost as many names on the Fortune Global 500 corporate rankings as the next four countries combined.

Whereas Russia is basically an ice-bound Saudi Arabia, despite an excellent resource base in terms of both mineral wealth and human talent. The pity is that it has been ruled by self-serving tyrants for the last century.