Summary
Trump has threatened BRICS nations with 100% tariffs if they attempt to replace the US dollar as the global reserve currency, calling them “seemingly hostile countries.”
BRICS, which includes major economies like China, India, and Russia, has been discussing an alternative reserve currency, especially after Western sanctions on Russia.
The power of the US dollar in the world has strengthened recently. It remains the world’s primary reserve currency and there is a huge worldwide reliance on it.
I mean, if he slaps tariffs on everyone, he may just accidentally bring about world peace when everyone just decides to stop dealing with the US.
That’s their idea. BRICS know they can’t beat USA in a straight on fight. But using a different economic model, set up alternative trade, USA can be made irrelevant in the long. USA really likes to play for short term gains, what is a weakness that can be exploited, especially with a “it hurt itself in its confusion” leader.
Idk, honestly one of the larger selling points to global trade was that you’d be much less likely to want to go to war with someone you relied on. If there is literally nothing connecting you then war is a much “easier” option to choose. :/
In a world United against the US, there’s no war the US can wage effectively. There’s only so much power you can project from aircraft carriers, and nukes are essentially off the table.
BRICS was also designed for exactly this scenario; a rogue US finally showing its whole ass to the world. They’ll survive regardless of what the US tries, whether it’s sanctions, tariffs or invasions.
It was created to diversify the commercial relations of those countries, decentralizing them from US/Europe.
You can call that “protection against a rogue US”, but it was much more of a “we will never get rich if those two control everything we do” thing.
It’s less “we will never get rich”, which is objectively incorrect given China is part of BRICS and was rich long before brics was created, and more, “why the fuck is less than 8% of the world entitled to the wealth of over 60%?”
You appear to be saying that only the US starts wars? That’s not the case.
That’s not a common interpretation of those words in that order, which would be fantastic if there were a competition for most unique and obtuse construing of sentences; however whether or not such a contest exists, this isn’t a part of it.
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What about the wars that the rest of the world wage?
If the world is united against the US, why would they go to war with each other? They would all have a common enemy in a belligerent country run by an egotistical maniac.
Nothing unites people like a common enemy. Just look at how the Republicans get voted in and how Trump got elected again.
There are more things going on in the world than the United States. Countries can focus on more than one issue at a time.
Besides, if the US goes the “tariff everyone! Yay isolationism!” Route then the rest of the world doesn’t need to do anything. The US will have defeated itself for them.
…it’s not a part of the discussion. Do keep up if you’re going to weigh in. I know English sucks, and it really does, but it’s the easiest language to learn the basics of for a reason