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To supplement your point:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/

Russian elite invested nearly $100 million in Trump buildings

...

The tally of investors from Russia may be conservative. The analysis found that at least 703 – or about one-third – of the owners of the 2044 units in the seven Trump buildings are limited liability companies, or LLCs, which have the ability to hide the identity of a property’s true owner. And the nationality of many buyers could not be determined. Russian-Americans who did not use a Russian address or passport in their purchases were not included in the tally.

And

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/eric-trump-russia-investment-golf-course

“So when I got in the cart with Eric,” Dodson says, “as we were setting off, I said, ‘Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks—because of the recession, the Great Recession—have touched a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years.’ And this is what he said. He said, ‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’

AND

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a43329318/russian-investment-trump-media/

Towards the end of last year, federal prosecutors started examining two loans totaling $8m wired to Trump Media, through the Caribbean, from two obscure entities that both appear to be controlled in part by the relation of an ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin, the sources said.

AND

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/18/gop-operative-sentenced-scheme-russian-money-trump-campaign

A Republican strategist was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison for his role in helping funnel illegal foreign campaign contributions from a Russian national into former President Trump's 2016 campaign, per the Department of Justice.

AND

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/trumpinc/episodes/trump-inc-trump-deutsche-bank-its-complicated

The New York Times reported that anti-money-laundering specialists at Deutsche Bank internally flagged multiple transactions by Trump companies as suspicious. (A spokesperson for the Trump Organization called the article “absolute nonsense.”)

The remarkably troubled recent history of Deutsche Bank, its past money-laundering woes — and the bank’s striking relationship with Trump — are the subjects of this week’s episode. The German bank loaned a cumulative total of around $2.5 billion to Trump projects over the past two decades, and the bank continued writing him nine-figure checks even after he defaulted on a $640 million obligation and sued the bank, blaming it for his failure to pay back the debt.

All from just 5 minutes on Google!

Also this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2022/07/29/donald-trumps-great-escape-how-the-former-president-solved-his-debt-crisis/

Not to mention that many countries shelter under the US's nuclear umbrella. If the US is no longer guaranteed to actually be there, other countries might spin up a nuclear program themselves.

It won't be thousands of nukes, but then more countries will have a nuclear arsenal to protect themselves, making the chance some conflict will spark it's use bigger.

Nobody wants to start a land war in China, that would be insane. Defending Taiwan from Chinese aggression is what it's all about. But China is probably about a decade away from having the capability to make a move on Taiwan.