https://www.truthdig.com/articles/goodbye-to-the-dollar/
The inept and corrupt presidency of Donald Trump has unwittingly triggered the fatal blow to the American empire—the abandonment of the dollar as the world’s principal reserve currency. Nations around the globe, especially in Europe, have lost confidence in the United States to act rationally, much less lead, in issues of international finance, trade, diplomacy and war. These nations are quietly dismantling the seven-decade-old alliance with the United States and building alternative systems of bilateral trade. This reconfiguring of the world’s financial system will be fatal to the American empire, as the historian Alfred McCoy and the economist Michael Hudson have long pointed out. It will trigger an economic death spiral, including high inflation, which will necessitate a massive military contraction overseas and plunge the United States into a prolonged depression. Trump, rather than make America great again, has turned out, unwittingly, to be the empire’s most aggressive gravedigger.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday February 05 2019, @03:45PM
As the feminists say, it's "his" story.
In my high school (1984) they straight up taught a course titled "Americanism vs Communism" and never was there a more transparently biased text. They didn't go so far as to chant EVIL about the Communists, but they didn't teach me anything that even slightly resembled what I witnessed in East Germany five years later.
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