• darvocet@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know why we’d be surprised. If you outsource everything to China eventually that will be so much money they get to pick payment methods.

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      1 year ago

      It is because the West sanctions and freezing the money of Russia triggered fears of the same in the Global South, so dedollarisation is happening. Countries are looking for alternatives to not fall in the weaponisation of the dollar, there was a recent article by a former CIA advisor talking about this I will try to link it.

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        1 year ago

        The global south has been dealing with the downside of dollar hegemony for decades. It’s not like people suddenly got afraid due to recent sanctions. This ball has been rolling for decades.

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          1 year ago

          I agree, but that certainly accelerated it, one thing is to sanction a small island or third world country and another one is to sanction a country like Russia, the message is different. If it was Russia’s turn it could be Saudi Arabia’s next, or whomever.

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            1 year ago

            Russia is special in the West and I don’t think anyone has any illusions about that. No one except maybe China is comparable to Russia as the ebil spoopy bad guyz

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      1 year ago

      Not really, this has more to do with its size and the fact that they’re forcing themselves on a desperate Russia.

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        1 year ago

        Sure, the undermining of the most advanced economy in the history of the world only started happening since the US started putting sanctions on Russia. Nothing to do with the preceding decades.