Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony

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Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony

The Neocons who Trump has appointed are accomplishing what seemed unthinkable not long ago: Driving China and Russia together – the great nightmare of Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. They also are driving Germany and other European countries into the Eurasian orbit, the “Heartland” nightmare of Halford Mackinder a century ago. 

The root cause is clear: After the crescendo of pretenses and deceptions over Iraq, Libya and Syria, along with our absolution of the lawless regime of Saudi Arabia, foreign political leaders are coming to recognize what world-wide public opinion polls reported even before the Iraq/Iran-Contra boys turned their attention to the world’s largest oil reserves in Venezuela: 

The United States is now the greatest threat to peace on the planet. 

A point had to come where this policy collided with the self-interest of other nations, finally breaking through the public relations rhetoric of empire. 

Other countries are proceeding to de-dollarize and replace what U.S. diplomacy calls “internationalism” (meaning U.S. nationalism imposed on the rest of the world) with their own national self-interest.

On January 31 the dam broke with the announcement that Europe had created its own bypass payments system for use with Iran and other countries targeted by U.S. diplomats. 

Germany, France and even the U.S. poodle Britain joined to create INSTEX — Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges. 

The promise is that this will be used only for “humanitarian” aid to save Iran from a U.S.-sponsored Venezuela-type devastation. But in view of increasingly passionate U.S. opposition to the Nord Stream pipeline to carry Russian gas, this alternative bank clearing system will be ready and able to become operative if the United States tries to direct a sanctions attack on Europe. 

The end of our monetary imperialism, about which I first wrote in 1972 in Super Imperialism, stuns even an informed observer like me. 

It took a colossal level of arrogance, short-sightedness and lawlessness to hasten its decline — something that only crazed Neocons like John Bolton, Elliot Abrams and Mike Pompeo could deliver for Donald Trump.

DYI:  Whether this is a plan by Trump to end American world wide colonialism or incompetency in his administration to maintain world domination is anyone’s guess.  This shift away from the U.S. dollar started when Richard Nixon ended the remains of the gold standard [1971].  What accelerated this push from the U.S. dollar was once the year 2000 was breached highlighting our unfunded liabilities that has amassed into the multiples of trillions all backed by our fiat currency.

Simply put the U.S. is an ageing empire that has run out of gas economically.  We have moved into the desperation stage with one obvious threat after another, sanctions, and outright wars all in an attempt to breathe life back into the empire.  Once Russia/China and the EU sidestep the U.S. dollar the other peripheral countries will begin to fall like dominoes.          

DYI