💲🚫 That war of the West against Russia is the current phase of US wars, military and hybrid, to stall and reverse the slide in its (attempted) world dominance.

They have targeted countries who merely assert their right to manage their economies and their international economic and political relations on their own terms, rather than those convenient to and/or dictated by the US.

Things are really bad when employing the only means left to stave off disaster brings it closer.

That is the story of the most powerful of the numerous sanctions the US has used, and convinced EU countries to use, against Russia in the war the West is waging against it over Ukraine, the freezing of its central bank reserves.

Not only are US and EU sanctions illegal under the UN charter, the US freezing of Russia’s reserves is simply theft.

It smacks not of independence either of institutions or the legal system, but of their profound politicization, nay criminalization, in US interests, writes Valdai Club expert Radhika Desai.

🔗 Financial Sanctions vs the US Dollar

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💸🌐 The US dollar is one of the cornerstones of the US global hegemony.

Without the dollar, US hegemony will no longer be stable.

The so-called Thucydides trap also exists between the US dollar and any potential challengers.

The United States will try its best to maintain the hegemony of the US dollar with its existing policy tools. Therefore, caution must be exercised in the competition for more important international monetary roles, writes Valdai Club expert Yu Xiang.

🔗 Prospects for De-Dollarisation of the World Monetary System and Settlements in National Currencies

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💸 The birth of the Euro changed the international monetary order, placing the Euro alongside the dollar as a payment and international reserve currency.

In the immediate post-war period, the dollar was joined by the pound; the importance of the currency of Great Britain is derived from the past, it has seen the role it once played gradually decline, with the disappearance of the empire and a series of anti-historical sovereign options in the country.

Today the world’s central banks are witnessing a decrease of the share of dollars in their reserves, while the euro and gold increase. The latter testifies to a situation of uncertainty.

The euro partially rebalanced the international monetary order, but did not call into question its fundamental characteristics.

The international monetary order began to be questioned when the Russian Federation and China, thanks to their own development, found themselves in a position to aspire to give their currency an international role. The international role of the Chinese currency is the natural effect of the country's economic development, which has become the world’s third largest economic power, surpassed only by the United States and the European Union. In turn, the role of the ruble at the international level can be supported by the ability of the Russian Federation to export strategic raw materials, primarily in the energy sector.

The possibility of creating a democratic monetary order as part of the European experience was greeted with scepticism at the time of the creation of the European Monetary Union. An equal scepticism is bound to welcome the project to establish a new international monetary order. The most dangerous alternative is to surrender to sovereignty and to war to resolve the tensions between the most powerful states and their vassals: monetary, financial and political disorder, writes Valdai Club expert Dario Velo.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/a-democratic-monetary-order/

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💸 Brazil and China have recently struck a multi-billion-dollar currency swap agreement which is expected to fuel de-dollarization in the United States’ near abroad, Latin America.

It is just one major piece of evidence of the ever-growing geopolitical and geo-economic importance played by the Western Hemisphere in the context of great power competition.

However, it is essential to calm enthusiasm and maintain objectivity. The US dollar might look like the walking dead, but it is still walking and will walk for a long time. 

In a growingly multipolar world, where the United States is slowly ceasing to be the primary pole of power, it is not strange, but absolutely normal and physiological, to witness a worldwide process of reserve currency diversification, writes Valdai Club expert Emanuel Pietrobon.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-day-after-the-dollar/

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