Eighty years after World War II ended, America faces a quiet reckoning. Since 1945, both Democrats and Republicans have built a mountain of debt—wars, tax cuts, social programs, and bailouts piled onto a balance sheet that now exceeds $34 trillion. But the real crisis isn’t the debt itself. It’s the **interest**. Rising rates have turned borrowing into a trap: the U.S. now spends more on interest than it does on defense. No tax hike or tariff can fix that—at best, they might cover the interest, not the principal.
Foreign buyers like China and Japan are pulling back. BRICS nations are pushing alternatives to the dollar. The Treasury is losing its most reliable customers, just as the cost of borrowing explodes. Default isn’t likely—the U.S. will print money instead, quietly devaluing the dollar. Savers will bleed. The middle class will shrink. And a nation that once financed the free world now struggles to finance itself.
This isn’t a future problem. It’s already happening. And no one in Washington is telling the truth.
