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Argument is that USA borrowing is contingent on foreign superpowers buying US Treasury Bonds, which they "started to stop" doing a couple years ago
> So much of the infrastructure just operates using dollars but nothing is stopping anyone from not using dollars
Other than pissing off the USA who will manufacture some moral imperative to sanction/proxywar/depose said government
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Argument is that USA borrowing is contingent on foreign superpowers buying US Treasury Bonds, which they "started to stop" doing a couple years ago
> So much of the infrastructure just operates using dollars but nothing is stopping anyone from not using dollars
Other than pissing off the USA who will manufacture some moral imperative to sanction/proxywar/depose said government