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I think it’s more an issue of other countries seeing that the U.S. can just confiscate their dollar reserves if the US doesn’t agree with their sovereign actions. Those countries are choosing to divest from the mono world order which is crumbling. For a long but instructive discussion on current economic events check out this interview.

https://youtu.be/cD_UcRtljDU

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“Mono world order” is a fun euphemism for “boo hoo we’re not allowed to run around the planet conquering other people”.

You’re free to “divest” as you put it… But you’re still expected to behave & play nicely with your neighbors.

“Mono world order” is the appropriate term when the US can go around conquering other people in their perceived self interest (Iraq, Afghanistan) but says nobody else can.

Hey, Russia had their Afghanistan, the US had their Afghanistan, everyone else should try to learn from these two examples.

If you want the real-politick answer then “yeah, absolutely”. What’s your point?

But the U.S empire has been pretty amazing for a pretty amazing number of people across the globe, and it is shockingly easy to stay on the good side of U.S. foreign policy.

Be reasonably democratic, don’t genocide undesirable elements of your population, don’t pick on other reasonably democratic countries, don’t threaten world trade and resources, don’t steal all the Americans’ stuff by suddenly socializing industries in your country, don’t fund terrorist activity against them.

Yeah you can find exceptions to every one of those listed items - welcome to global politics.

> But the U.S empire has been pretty amazing for a pretty amazing number of people across the globe, and it is shockingly easy to stay on the good side of U.S. foreign policy.

Hell no

> Be reasonably democratic, don’t genocide undesirable elements of your population, don’t pick on other reasonably democratic countries, don’t threaten world trade and resources, don’t steal all the Americans’ stuff by suddenly socializing industries in your country, don’t fund terrorist activity against them.

I'm sure Iraq and Palestine would agree.

And of course the country that did very well to the world, also wanted to illegally control the worlds population for its own interest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Study_Memora...

> Yeah you can find exceptions to every one of those listed items - welcome to global politics.

Which is why everyone wants to get rid of the dollar.

Russia went from being the “evil empire” to having Starbucks and McDonalds within ten years of ticking just a couple of those boxes. If your nation is still on the international naughty list it’s because of your behavior.

Americans would much rather be selling you cheeseburgers and blue jeans and Avengers movies than fighting with you.

Yes, it’s true Americans are very easy to get along with. All you have to do is depose your leaders, change your entire economic system and dismantle your military capacity for force projection just like the USSR did as it broke down.

US can confiscate your dollar reserves if you keep those dollars in the US, just as they can confiscate your gold reserves if you keep them in the Fort Knox.

>sovereign actions

Nice euphemism for genocidal, imperialist war.

> Nice euphemism for genocidal, imperialist war.

You’re referring to the U.S. right?

>You’re referring to the U.S. right?

You must claim to be very sarcastic!

No, I'm refering to only country in XXI century that literally decided to annex other country's territory - two times. All that while losing war, and deciding to unleash hell on civilians they claim to be "their kin".

At least we can cheer our hearts looking at fields littered with dead russian soldiers and see that there are countries of the world that won't leave those who need help alone.

https://twitter.com/PaulJawin/status/1596033997334872064

So the US policy on Latin America is just fine? Embargoes and CIA financed take-over of many states are all fine?

There are two fundamental differences. One is that Russian invasion and genocide is happening now, not couple of decades ago. Second is that the fact we can’t punish US doesn’t mean we shouldn’t punish other offenders.

I was answering the

> > Nice euphemism for genocidal, imperialist war.

>You’re referring to the U.S. right?

I mean, it's not like this list is censored https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes

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