[Viennacon]

They’re betting we and the Europeans collapse first...

Who knows, perhaps the Islamic State will eventually end up with a higher credit rating than us.

[Celtic Conservative]

If europe and us go first, who’s gonna buy all that plastic crap they make?

CC

[expat2]

Quite likely.
An old Chicago Mob trick (a 'bust-out') is to take over a company (say, a bar) with good credit and use that credit to buy loads of (say) booze for the mob and keep looting the bar until its credit is no longer any good. Then they leave, with the company owing huge sums of money and no credit.
What is happening now to the US is the world's biggest and most ambitious bust-out ever.