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Let's play a game - Name the country TSF wants us to become... (Original Post)
ihaveaquestion
May 3
OP
Is it an impoverished, starving, ignorant, and illiterate place still at war with USA?
Kid Berwyn
May 3
#5
Fichefinder
(306 posts)1. Eritrea
ihaveaquestion
(3,665 posts)2. Is that anything like N. Korea?
Historic NY
(38,990 posts)3. Dear Leader
lastlib
(25,948 posts)4. Zimbabwe, late 1990s.....
...at least in an economic sense.
Kid Berwyn
(20,405 posts)5. Is it an impoverished, starving, ignorant, and illiterate place still at war with USA?

North Korea still holds the USS Pueblo. And, of course, there’s money.
“We fell in love. I think your country has tremendous economic potential, unbelievable, unlimited.”

Trump did not disclose $19.8m loan while president, documents show
The loan from Daewoo, a company with ties to North Korea, should have been reported in public financial disclosures
by Maya Yang
The Guardian, December 5, 2022
Donald Trump failed to disclose a $19.8m loan from a company with historical ties to North Korea, while he was the US president, according to a new report.
Documents obtained by the New York attorney general, and reported by Forbes, on Sunday indicate a previously unreported loan owed by Trump to Daewoo, the South Korean conglomerate.
Daewoo was the only South Korean company allowed to operate a business in North Korea during the mid-1990s.
Forbes revealed that Trump’s relationship with Daewoo is at least 25 years old. At one point, Daewoo partnered with Trump on a development project near the United Nations headquarters in New York City, Trump World Tower.
Trump and Daewoo continued to do business together, including using Trump’s name on six South Korea-based properties from 1999 to 2007, according to the magazine.
Continues…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/05/donald-trump-daewoo-loan-financial-disclosure
I hope I wouldn’t smile if I owed an enemy rat $20 million smackers.
usonian
(17,793 posts)6. Moronica

meadowlander
(4,912 posts)7. The Roman Empire
lame54
(37,937 posts)8. Mad Max's Australia
andym
(5,965 posts)9. Sure, he wuld love to be North Korea's Kim, but he'll settle for being Hungary's Orban. NT.
Chipper Chat
(10,390 posts)10. Uganda