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[–] 103 points 8 months ago (14 children)

I wonder if this is the final nail that will decouple the world economy from the dollar.

But then, I suppose the plan was to decouple the world from the dollar all the time. Trump is clearly playing 5D connect-4.

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  • [–] 57 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Wish the bastard was playing hangman.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    "Its a 7 letter word, E_stein. Just need one more letter, any guesses?"

    "China!"

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    If anything Trump was trying to prevent the change away from the petrodollar standard. That “currency” allows the US to run up debts because nobody wants the dollar to collapse and wreck everything traded in USD.

    https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/trumps-venezuela-oil-grab-revives-petrodollar-debate-2026-01-06/

    I don’t know about the quality of this site, so be skeptical: https://factually.co/fact-checks/foreign-policy/was-iran-threatening-to-abandon-petrodollar-275c36

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Trump has singlehandedly destroyed the Untied States place in the world

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  • Eh, he's pushed around and bribed to make certain decisions. He's the right man for the job of accelerating the decline of the empire and the beginning of the multi-nodal world, whether he and his followers know it or not, simply because he truly has no spine, no morals, no ideology, he just cares about his money.

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  • [+] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    You were not born when the decoupling began.

    As recently as the 1970s, the world was getting unambiguously more coupled. As recently as the 1990s, it was ambiguously so.

    And decoupling only started to really happen last year. Before that it was going in a glacial pace.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    it depends where you look. there's been intentional economic globalism in areas. regionalism? we applauded nixon for making inroads with china.

    an interconnected global economy is the soundest defensive military policy i can think of. what government is going to be fool enough to blow up iran's economy when iran's economy is their economy too? (yes krasnov is fool enough it was a stupid question but you get it right?)

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