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You don't have to worry about that. They have been reducing their reliance on USD for everything over the past couple of years[1][2]. The West has been asleep a
by rjzzleep 5y ago
You don't have to worry about that. They have been reducing their reliance on USD for everything over the past couple of years[1][2]. The West has been asleep and drunk on its ignorance for a while now.
China has been selling services to Iran for oil for years now. Instead of actually paying for it in currency.
You can only threaten sanctions so many times when the other side is a world power. Trumps America showed that the US a bit of a toothless tiger when they didn't retaliate after Iran shot rockets at their Iraq military base.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/27/russias-bid-to-ditch-the-us-dollar-is-slowly-working-but-obstacles-remain.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/27/russias-bid-to-ditch-the-us-...
[2] https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/russia-s-583-billion-reserves-now-hold-more-gold-than-dollars https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/russia-s-583...
- roenxi 5y agoTrump had a top Iranian general missiled. And Iran sat there and took it with laudable stoicism because they aren't stupid and could see they had nothing to do. America was anything but toothless in those years and Iran wasn't about to call any bluffs. And funny you should bring up Iraq in these troubled times, because I think the recent conflict Russia->Ukraine is most comparable to - outside of Russia->Other Neighbours - is US->Iraq. Assuming the situation calms down rather than escalating.
- roca 5y agoI think US/Iraq is not a good analogy. The USA got rid of a really bad dictator and the majority of Iraqs were happy about that --- but social divisions crippled the aftermath. OTOH Ukraine has a democratically elected government and is pretty unified against Russia right now.
- modo_mario 5y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/16/iraq.iraqtimeline https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/16/iraq.iraqtimel...
- hilbertseries 5y agoTrump assassinated basically Iran’s Vice President and they “retaliated” with a missile attack on a US base. That didn’t kill any soldiers. If anything it showed that Iran was powerless in the face of US aggression.
- pseudo0 5y agoThe US assassinated a key Iranian leader, while Iran did property damage to an empty US military base in order to save face. It sure looks like we got the better end of that deal.
- polotics 5y agoDidn't retaliate? Was the killing of the top Iranian commander by drone before or after this rocket shelling?