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BowTiedQuoll's avatar

Thanks for making this a free post.

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cfrog's avatar

Absolutely on target with this. The key thing to using a weapon is to know both a) when to use it, b) when not to use it, c) at some point it will have diminishing effects and your enemy will copy it. Once we tied the USD to policy and showed it to be a completely political weapon with zero neutrality, other governments were incentivized to find both counters and other options. I'm a full on statist patriot, but I'm also a practical man and completely understand why Russia and China have sought other options. If positions were reversed, I would want the US to do the same. Put another way, we turned the petro-dollar into an ied, handed the detonator to our competitors, then gave them a reason and the right time to press the button. How are we surprised when they press it?

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