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Can you describe why you think the US has "significantly abused their position with the US dollars hegemony."
by boringg 4y ago
Can you describe why you think the US has "significantly abused their position with the US dollars hegemony."
- GartzenDeHaes 4y agoMaybe the 40% currency devaluation?
- csomar 4y agoFATCA, protectionism hidden behind AML/KYC, money printing at the expense of the other countries' reserves, sanctions or the threat of sanctions, political requests for IMF/WB funding, etc... Really, it's a shitshow and the US is rarely the good guy here.
- travisporter 4y agoI really don’t see how protectionism hides behind these acronyms Sanctions would be a reasonable argument I personally agree with
- boringg 4y agoI mean you are just throwing everything that the US does into one bucket called "US dollar hegemony" without discrimination. I'm not saying they don't leverage their dollar power I disagree that it "significantly abused their position" via the alphabet soup of complaints above.
- missedthecue 4y agoI think the US sanctions regime, based on the supremacy of the US dollar, is nakedly abused. For instance, sanctioning ICC prosecutors who investigated US service members for warcrimes.
- boringg 4y agoIn this case you're talking about the moves by the Trump GOP administration.
- samarthr1 4y agoFor good or bad, it's still the legitimately elected US government. The Trump government represented the population of the USA, and was elected in accordance with its own rules. The consequences or fruits thereof belong to the citizens of the nation.
- boringg 4y agoI understand - but to use that as an example of a pattern of the US government significantly abusing their US dollar hegemony doesn't equate.
- whitemary 4y ago[flagged]
- boringg 4y agoPurely speculative conspiracy theory here.
- petodo 4y agoYes, that's why US does everything they can to prevent investigating who caused it, same with UN and US allies when it come to investigation who sabtaged NS. But of course it's conspiracy theory, let's just label it and ignore smoking gun.
- boringg 4y agoThe other possibility is EU member states and investigating it would further inflame internal tensions in an already tense time and erode support for the war effort. There are many many possibilities - which is why the version you are putting forward is labelled a conspiracy theory until otherwise proven.
- ceejayoz 4y agoHersh thinks, as of Feb 23 2023, that "the Russians have yet to put any of their main forces in". (https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1628898816953909251 https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1628898816953909251) I dunno what happened to him, but you should probably read his allegations with that context in mind.