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Yeah, though, Russia's foreign wealth wasn't really much of a bargaining chip in its insanity -- foreign countries have basically seized that wealth, and are handing it to Ukraine for war funding. If a bunch of Europeans have a bunch of money in the USA / US companies, that seems more like a risk for Europe than the USA -- the USA could just seize it, and use it to fund bombs / propaganda to attack Europe. Even with Trumps shenanigans, it seems foreign investors are still piling money in to the USA (or at least they had been, I haven't really looked at what the last couple weeks have done, admittedly).