Bankruptcy comes from burning all your bridges, which is what Tweety is doing. Tweety did not start or support the war in Afghanistan, and the multiple-trillions wasted, misplaced, and misused there would bankrupt smaller countries already.
It is not Tweety's war, nevertheless, Tweety is making enemies of every country government he needs to end the war in Afghanistan: Iran, Pakistan, China, and Russia. No relations with Russia are NOT good even if Tweety is Putin's butt-boy.
"America’s debt has exploded. Why does no one care?"
By Robert E. Rubin August 13, 2018
Robert E. Rubin, a co-chairman emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, was U.S. treasury secretary from 1995 to 1999.
Factors that have allowed America to have so much debt are diminishing in their protective power.
"Two long-standing tenets of our major political parties impede our ability to reestablish sound fiscal conditions. Republicans believe low taxes are key to growth, and Democrats believe that maintaining entitlements is necessary to protect our people. But if the public understands our current trajectory will undo us, there are practical steps forward that can honor both views.
Tax revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product is expected to be 16.5 percent next year. The long-term average in a full-employment economy is 18.5 percent of GDP; if revenue were at that level for the coming decade, debt would be $3.2 trillion lower and the 10-year fiscal gap would be halved. Returning to past revenue levels, however, will be inadequate over time, because an aging population will increase Medicare and Social Security costs. This need not pose a problem: Revenue was roughly 19 percent of GDP in the late 1990s, and economic conditions were excellent.
On the entitlement side, reforming our national health-care system to greatly reduce what economists call “excess cost growth” would stem the rise of federal health-care expenditures and significantly reduce the fiscal gap — likely without reducing benefits. Health-care costs are 18.2  percent of GDP in the United States, compared with 10 to 11 percent in other developed economies. But we must summon a long-absent political will."
The solution boils down to politics, therefore, in my opinion, THAT is a fatal blow to hope. America will go bankrupt like Greece, Portugal, and other countries.
Today, with Tweety's aggressive efforts to divide the country into white men versus everyone else, tribalism is maximized.
No political solution is possible. America will go bankrupt, we are going to be like frogs in a pot of water that comes to a slow boil. We won't jump! Americans as frogs will stand their ground, they would rather boil to death than change their positions, or to jump out of the boiling hot watert.
"Trump's America will be saddled with debt – just like his bankrupted hotels"
Richard Wolffe Feb 9, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/09/trump-saddle-america-debt-bankrupted-hotels
"Donald Trump knows a lot about debt because he has created so much of it himself. He’s like a grand wizard of debt because he has magically escaped from several dark boxes of it."
Going on.
"How did he escape from all that debt? “On occasion,” he told Hillary Clinton on television, “we used certain laws that are there.” That certainly put her in her place.
Normal people find it hard to borrow money or run businesses after so many bankruptcies. But they don’t know the magic spells that Trump knows, and they don’t have a TV show that makes any buffoon look like a real businessman" They also don’t have Russian wizard friends who buy lots of their property at ridiculously high prices because that’s how they do something they call “laundry”.
More, even though a bit sarcastically . . .
"Even the prayer people were happy to set aside their morals. They know that Trump’s kind of magical thinking is precisely what the world needs right now, otherwise everybody would get very upset at the way the planet is warming, the threat of nuclear war, and the global refugee crisis. Right now we obviously need the kind of leader who is completely ignorant about the consequences, and just lives in the moment."
Is there more? Yes, and it is ugly!
"Mick Mulvaney counts the coins that are left in Trump’s budget office and he used to be worried about things like debt. But that was in the olden times, when he was trying to get confirmed for this current job, one year ago.
“Our gross national debt has increased to almost $20tn. That number is so large as to defy description,” he told senators. “I believe, as a matter of principle, that the debt is a problem that must be addressed sooner, rather than later.”
Mulvaney is so old-fashioned he called Obama’s budget in 2011 “a joke” for adding to the national debt about the same amount as Trump’s tax cuts. “It’s hard to explain how detached from reality this is, to think that the country can spend another $1.6tn when it doesn’t have the means,” he told Politico."
In conclusion, for Tweety lovers . . .
"Nobody but Trump could have imagined that Republicans would vote for a trillion-dollar monster after so many years fighting a religious war against Obama for precisely the same thing. Nobody but Trump could have sold the idea of debt so well to the very people who said they hated it."
Sad!
"How Did America Go Bankrupt? Slowly, At First, Then All At Once!"
Feb. 18, 2018 by: Christopher Hamilton
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4147977-america-go-bankrupt-slowly-first
"Full-time jobs are being added at a rapidly declining rate while federal debt is surging in the absence of the growth of full-time employees."
Bottom line - debt outpaces full-time jobs over the long term. In addition to a ridiculous tax cut, excess spending on stupid crap, wanting a $22B Wall, we get a trade war of three to speed the process of going bankrupt.
"Don’t Underestimate the Danger of Trump’s Trade War with China"
By John Cassidy Sept 2018
"The biggest danger is that Trump seems intent on misreading recent history. Last month, Mexico reached a preliminary trade deal with the United States to revise NAFTA. Earlier in the summer, the European Union headed off a clash with the White House by promising to import more U.S. goods and entering negotiations over a broader agreement. Talks with Canada are continuing, and the participants are sending out hopeful signals. Trump’s interpretation of these developments is that bullying works: by threatening to pull out of NAFTA and impose tariffs on European cars and Canadian dairy products, he forced his adversaries to submit. Now he seems to think he can do the same thing to China."
China does not have a democratic government and that government can anything they want to defeat the USA in a trade war!
"Trump and other trade hawks in the White House want to impose on Beijing a different economic-development model—one that doesn’t include mercantilist practices such as supporting infant industries, trading market access for technical knowledge, and using licensing restrictions and other non-tariff barriers to disadvantage foreign competitors. “This is the time for China to be held accountable for its non-market behavior, for its cheating,” Peter Navarro, the director of the White House Trade Council, told Fox Business, on Tuesday. “Going forward, we can’t have a healthy global economy if one of the biggest economies is basically a predator.""
Bottom line- the trade war can go on for a lot longer than Tweety expects, hurting us more than China in several ways, not excluding a hot war.
