Strategic Culture.su — Aug 21, 2026
The United States hit a dubious milestone this week, announcing that its national debt had exceeded $40 trillion. No other nation comes close to this level of absolute financial indebtedness.
This is not simply a matter of out-of-control financial bankruptcy. It is an ominous sign of an unhinged empire that is desperately trying to salvage its historic failure by scorched-earth tactics of endless war.
The world is being held hostage by a pathological system that is no longer tolerable for the sake of humanity, development and peace.
Perhaps of more significance than the total figure – astronomical though that is – is the accelerating pace of U.S. debt growth. Since 2016, the arrears have doubled, up from $20tn. Over the next decade, the U.S. national debt is predicted to climb to $64tn.
In the year 2000, the American account stood at a “mere” $6tn. The last quarter of a century has seen the arrears pile up from endless wars, reckless military spending, and massive tax cuts for the corporate elite. The debt has become irreversible under prevailing policies.
Servicing interest on the arrears now runs at $1tn a year and is one of the largest federal budget expenditures. This means that the United States is caught in a debt spiral from which it cannot extricate itself. It is digging a deeper and deeper hole.
There are profound implications for the United States as a society. As Robert Reich, a former Labour Secretary, noted, the servicing of runaway debt means less money for “schools, healthcare, roads and bridges and social safety nets.” The grim conclusion is that social inequality in the U.S. – already at record levels – will become even more destructive. That speaks of social immiseration and collapse.
There are also far-reaching detrimental impacts on the U.S. and global economy. Even mainstream commentators warn of a historic fiscal crisis pending for the United States from soaring interest rates and hyperinflation. That, in turn, will be transmitted to the rest of the world, especially those countries with large holdings of American debt.
But the exceptional U.S. financial mess is not just a matter of economics. It is an urgent issue of global peace and security.
There are several causes of mounting American debt. However, the main driver, by far, is that nation’s relentless warmongering and militarism, as economist Jeffrey Sachs and other commentators have long contended. It is systemic and chronic.
This year saw the United States celebrate its 250th anniversary since its founding as a modern state. For most of its history, about 95 per cent of the 250 years, the United States has been at war, either through conquest or subterfuge, according to its own Congressional records and eminent historians like David Vine.
No other modern nation comes close to this bellicose conduct, and that is a reason why no other nation comes close to the level of financial debt of the U.S.
In short, war and debt are closely correlated as cause and effect.
The worrying thing for the world is that as the U.S. debt spirals at an accelerating pace, the obvious implication is that conflict and wars are also increasingly manifest.
There are few people today who cannot be but concerned by the perception of intensifying tensions, violence and threats to world peace. We are living in a time when World War Three and nuclear conflagration are spoken of as an imminent possibility. While Western corporate media tend to cover up the obvious, polls show that increasing numbers of people around the world view the United States as the main threat to global peace and security.
The current wars in the Middle East and Ukraine and tensions with China all can be traced to Washington’s foreign policies.
The Trump administration has bombed at least seven countries and is threatening to attack others. Just this week, Trump sounded like a Mafia don when he said he would “bomb the shit” out of Oman over some perceived grievance. The U.S. disregard for international law was always a recurring feature, albeit not a widely known one, but lately it has become blatant.
This American president has hinted on numerous occasions at using nuclear weapons to “obliterate” Iran since his criminal war of aggression against that country has so conspicuously failed. The war on Iran alone has clocked up another $100 billion – and counting – on the U.S. national debt just in the space of six months.
George D O’Neill Jr writes in The American Conservative: “The current wars have exposed the shortcomings of our nearly trillion-dollar military and its multi-billion-dollar weapon systems… after years of being told we possess the most powerful military in history, Americans are beginning to realize it is a fantasy.”
It is indeed a cruel fantasy. The U.S. is not an exceptional, virtuous nation, as its propaganda claims; it is an exceptionally violent and criminal empire which has run up a monstrous debt by way of self-indicting evidence.
The real danger is that the empire is rapidly falling apart from its decades of abuse and corruption. And to postpone that reckoning, the U.S. ruling class is ramping up war and militarism as a desperate attempt to create a new world order, which it is gambling will somehow benefit American capitalism.
It doesn’t have to be that way. If the United States actually served the democratic needs of its people, as opposed to the oligarchy and military-industrial complex, it would increase taxation on the super-wealthy and rein in military spending and wars. That is, if the U.S. actually functioned like a law-abiding normal nation, it could avert fiscal crisis and engage peacefully with the rest of the world.
But U.S. capitalism does not work like that. It is a zero-sum system driven by ambitions of world dominance that spawn war, imperialist aggression and debt.
The U.S. debt crisis is a legacy of endless war. It is also a harbinger of future wars. Unless the American system is somehow systematically transformed through revolution or total collapse.
Fake Fantasy figures.
All made up,
Plucked out of thin air.
Proved.
‘They’ admitted it them selves.
it’s compound interest that is ‘claimed’ for a loan that never had any back up.
right back down to the Mortgage scam at the lower level.
It’s all a game, & we never had a chance of winning.
> This is not simply a matter of out-of-control financial bankruptcy. It is an ominous sign of an unhinged empire that is desperately trying to salvage its historic failure by scorched-earth tactics of endless war.
No, it’s the death throes of an empire that has been entirely consumed by the jew.
> The world is being held hostage by a pathological system that is no longer tolerable for the sake of humanity, development and peace.
Every single human on Earth would eat their own children for money.
Anyway, after the war the entire “debt” will vanish, so it doesn’t matter what it is now.
I don’t see any of the ones crying “racist” living in the gutter. Do you?
they never get this away + with every war
growing . they even get it back from all
other nations in dept . the whole west is
short to bankrupty .
better disown/expropiate all tril-billionaries+
most not manualy working jews .
yes you jews are right to despise us manual
working germans + slavic people . but we
despise you parasites on our back . our
parasitic ruling traitors follow your nature,
are the same like you !
For such a rogue state I have to wonder why it even bothers to declare when it prints/creates its trillions of dollars of FIAT and digital currency.
Fiat currency is a government-issued type of money not backed by a physical commodity like gold or silver. It gets its value from public trust and the law that makes it legal tender. Examples include the Australian Dollar (AUD), U.S. Dollar (USD), and Euro (EUR).
How It Works: The word “fiat” means an official order or decree. Governments declare the money official legal tender for debts and taxes. Central banks control the money supply to guide the economy.
Pros and Cons.
Pros: Gives central banks tools to manage inflation and interest rates.
Cons: Risk of high inflation if a government prints too much money.
Probably now is the time for serious countries to ditch supporting the US petrodollar and that crazy, warmongering, bloodthirsty government in Washington.
How did the American people allow their government to get so bad?
They are supposed to blessed by Israel…
Go figure.
Debt? Owed to whom? Is the US really worried? Is the sky going to fall over this, or are they going tocontinue along with the other INTERNATIONAL-BANKSTER-CONTROLLED GANGSTE-RUN nations of Russia, Israel, and China in yet another dialectical polarity designed by the THE USUAL INTERNATIONAL SUSPECTS to CONTINUE FLEECING THE REEST OF THE WORLD?
Question to AI Overview:
“The US is said to be 41 trillion in debt. What exactly constitutes that debt? How much of it is internal? How much owed in treasures owned to nations and parties outside the US? To what private individuals, oligarchs, international banks, including the the IMF, the World Bank, the BIS, privately-owed central banks, corporations in and out of the US is the debt owed, including personal and corporate bank account holders inside and outside the US?”
Answer:
“As of August 2026, the total US gross national debt has surpassed $40.1 trillion, which is roughly double the $21 trillion figure previously cited. This debt is not a standard bank loan; instead, it is composed entirely of outstanding US Treasury securities (such as Bills, Notes, Bonds, and Savings Bonds) issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to various domestic and international buyers.📊
The Two Main Categories of Debt:
The gross national debt is divided into two primary accounting categories:
Debt Held by the Public (~80% / ~$32.3 trillion): This represents all the cash federal agencies have borrowed from outside investors, including individuals, businesses, foreign governments, and central banks.
Intragovernmental Debt (~20% / ~$7.8 trillion): This is internal debt that the federal government essentially owes to itself. It represents surplus cash borrowed from government trust funds, primarily the Social Security and Medicare trust funds.🔎
Internal vs. External Debt
The vast majority of the debt is held domestically inside the United States.
Internal (Domestic) Debt (~76% / ~$30.8 trillion): Roughly three-quarters of all federal debt is owned by American citizens, American companies, the central bank, and US government agencies.
External (Foreign) Debt (~24% / ~$9.3 trillion): Less than a quarter of the total debt is owned by foreign nations, international investors, and overseas corporations.➡️
Specific Debt Holders and Institutions
According to data compiled by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and the US Treasury, the debt is distributed among specific entities as follows:
The Federal Reserve System ($4.4 trillion): The US central bank buys Treasuries on the open market to regulate the money supply and interest rates.US Government Trust Funds ($7.7 trillion): This includes the Social Security Trust Fund ($2.6 trillion) and other military or civil service retirement accounts ($5.1 trillion).Mutual Funds and Pension Funds ($6.6 trillion):
Private retirement plans, index funds, and institutional mutual funds heavily hold Treasuries as safe-haven assets.
Private Individuals and Households ($3.0 trillion): This includes regular US citizens buying savings bonds, treasury bills, or wealth management accounts.US Commercial Banks and Corporations ($2.4 trillion): Private domestic banks hold Treasuries to meet liquidity and regulatory requirements.
Foreign Countries and Central Banks ($9.3 trillion): The largest foreign holders are Japan ($1.12 trillion), the United Kingdom ($939 billion), and China ($633 billion).International Financial Institutions (IMF, World Bank, BIS): The IMF, World Bank, and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) do not lend money to the US government or hold meaningful amounts of US debt. Instead, the United States is actually a founding member and the largest monetary contributor to both the IMF and the World Bank.
Note: Personal and corporate bank account holders do not hold US debt directly through their standard checking or savings accounts. However, the commercial banks where they keep their deposits use that money to purchase billions of dollars worth of US Treasury securities to back their institutional operations.”
the national debt is well over $200 trillion and has been.
what a pitiful weak amateur article to say it is a measly $40
trillion. you have to include ALL real debt- social insecurity,
medicaid/medicare, endless pensions, and god only knows what
other real debts there are. this means $600,000 per person in america
and like $2.4 million for a family of four.
all debts get paid all the time every time. this one will be paid
in the form of the GREATEST financial collapse the world
has ever seen. there is no such thing as an “unpaid debt”.
Bye Bye JewSA..
Hoisted by your own (((petard)))
Tod dem Juden
they just only need to erase 3-6 seros + start new .
Hahaha I love that chart at the top, “Debt Held by the Public”… go take a flying f*ck at a rolling doughnut. I was going to say that the large majority of the public never agreed to most of the obscene spending by the jew-cucked regime, but then again, at least half of the morally bankrupt drooling retards that comprise the population of the jewnited states have been all for the criminally insane terrorism campaigns, both foreign and domestic.
What the overwhelming majority of Americunt dumb-f*cks are clueless about, in addition to near well everything, is that every mumpin cent gouged from the working people in the annual tax shakedown only goes to service part of the interest on the phantom national debt, with not one stinking centavo going to the alleged principal. Of course, the big kahuna question of them all is to whom, specifically, does that trillions in usurious compound interest go?
Many here have a damn good idea of the answer, which is members of the very same satanic tribe from way down under whose published law commands the jew vermin to degrade and destroy everything not of their demonic line.
The “government” regimes (((they))) control need to be overthrown and their representatives publicly executed. Then legitimate governments that spring up declare the “debt” null & void. The kike “bankers” wouldn’t be able to collect on it anyway since they should be f*cking dead from what should be their excruciatingly painful executions.
@ UMBRA BELLATOR
executing all jew billion-trillionaries FEDs +
corrupto government goyim will not happen
since Israhells nukes protects them .
USA is ruled by israhell since long time ago .
and Europa !
It is highly likely that the collapsing empire will finally launch a war that will engulf the whole planet. The lunatics in charge are desperate and still don’t see that they won’t survive either. There won’t be a NWO with them at the helm rising from the ashes of the Old World.
Hear Hear Umbrah!