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He probably wants to have “AI” comb over every expense before accepting, which is obviously illegal, but also certain to break really really ancient digital systems that only an extremely few people are capable of understanding within a short (and probably medium) period of time. It cannot be overemphasized how much you can’t mess with payment systems; the best case is some ancient dudes getting millions out of mostly, maybe, fixing it.
Trump and Rubio are saying out loud what America is, dismantling the soft power quicker at the same time it is removing parts from the hard power having faith it’ll work better. True, adding new parts as well, but we knew that was already happening.
If it doesn’t matter, then it doesn’t matter. If it scares MBS into quick reaction, and disgusts the likes of Baerbock into publicly opposing it, then it would seem like it matters a little. Either way, the US and the rest are not going to stop slaughtering, starving, and enslaving scores and scores of humans anytime soon, and certainly not willingly - any remotely humane opposition will keep being neutered, and the people will keep being tricked by exceptionalism brainworms.