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Entire countries have had access to a currency completely pulled. Not just the US wants to use USD.

Plenty of people can lose access to their money, not just alleged domestic terrorists (and isn't alleged is a scary word?).

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I'm certainly no expert on Argentina, but I'm talking about dollars backed by the US government, not pesos that the Argentine government was pretending were worth a dollar. I'm sure even when the hard peg was in effect it would have been impossible to actually convert the bulk of the pesos to dollars - I'm sure no foreign bank would cooperate. This was no different than some crypto coin pretending to be worth a dollar.

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