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As long as the dollar remains the reserve currency of the world and US retains its hegemony, a lot of the finances will work itself out, the only threat to the
by ojr 10mo ago
As long as the dollar remains the reserve currency of the world and US retains its hegemony, a lot of the finances will work itself out, the only threat to the US empire crumbling is by losing a major war or extreme civil unrest and that threat is astronomically low. The US is orders of magnitude stronger than the Roman Empire, I don't think people realize the scale or control.
- rootnod3 10mo agoFamous last words of empires. I doubt that if current situations continue that the US will in any sense be still thought of as the reserve currency.
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- 7222aafdcf68cfe 10mo agoGradually, then suddenly. Best not to underestimate the extent to which the USA has lost trust in the rest of the world, and how actively people and organisations are working to derisk by disengaging. Of course that will neither be easy nor particularly fast, but I'm not certain it can be stopped at this point.
- LunaSea 10mo agoYou should look at the depreciation of the value of the dollar this year.
- randomNumber7 10mo agoPride comes before a fall.
- dragonwriter 10mo ago> The US is orders of magnitude stronger than the Roman Empire This would be trivially true even if the US was currently in its death throes (which there is plenty of evidence that the US-as-empire might be, even if the US-as-polity is not), as the Roman Empire fell quite a while ago.
- zahlman 10mo agoI'm pretty sure > The US is orders of magnitude stronger than the Roman Empire [was] was the intended reading.
- ojr 10mo agobeing pedantic doesn’t change the fact of what I said. If I said Obama is a better a leader than Julius Caesar, would you reply well actually, Julius Caesar is dead.