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(Bloomberg) -- All around the world, a backlash is brewing against the hegemony of the US dollar.

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[-] Korkki@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Or they see that US has a economical nuclear bomb in the dollar and it's increasingly more reckless in it's use and they naturally want to isolate their economies from the fate that Washington just decides that they are not "free", "democratic" or somehow against US interest and decide to unilaterally sanction them and keep wrecking their economy until US demands are met. You do know that third of world's countries are under some sort of US sanctions and very few of them were or are on war footing towards anybody. World wants out of the dollar because US is no longer seen as reliable.

[-] Nine@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago

All of these countries are either failed democracies or dictatorships. Not sure where you are from, but it's in my interest that democracy remains strong. If that means sanctioning non-democratic countries when they want to undermine democracies, then so be it.

[-] kugel7c@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

With how flawed the US democracy is and with how often the US undermines democracy in especially south America. What the US understands as a danger to democracy is more often than not a danger to neoliberalism, Cuba gets sanctioned while Saudi Arabia is embraced doesn't really speak for the pursuit of furthering democracy.

Also the US has no one actually holding it accountable internationally, just because of military and economic might, so their leaders seem to think their forgein policy is reasonable, while it mostly is a disaster. Sure in Ukraine they are supporting a war where they have justifiable reason to do so, but this recently hasn't been the case in Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq or Vietnam earlier. Militarily forcing democracy and/or neoliberalism on countries doesn't really work.

[-] Nine@programming.dev -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not sure why you are bringing up all the wars the US has been involved with or what US's foreign policy is. I'm not from the US and never said I agreed with their behaviour. I do, however, agree with protecting democracy through economic or military means.

[-] misterslime12@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Sanctions don't hurt dictators, only people. This only makes a country's population like their dictator more than the US.

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