I think you've provided a good synopsis of how it works.

Of course, using our military to seize the foreign tax havens, would be a good idea too.

and they want to use it to blackmail the President even though it is money they have already borrowed and spent....

Years ago I tutored a young man whose father is one of Governors of Oman. We were talking about all the big companies doing business in the Middle East. Off the top of his head he said, "Oh yeah, my father has been buying Ratheon [stock] since before the first invasion of Iraq." I thought to myself, "hmmmmm, fuck, rich people around the world make a fuck-ton of money as long as the American war machine is out there splattering folks."

The U.S. has no sovereign foreign policy.

We are a frat house that aspires to be a death cult.


Carry on.

It's even more circular and ludicrous, actually. We pay taxes. Rich people don't. Then rich people demand our tax dollars go to THEM to purchase things we don't need.

Then the rich people say we're too broke for any of our tax dollars to go to things that would help the rest of us in any way, which they call "mooching."

I certainly agree with your comment.

And incredibly insane. Our system, functioning normally.