#dedollarization

In response to recent events, various alliances and investments that bypass the US have been floated, including a proposal to green the world’s largest trade bloc, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, and the first economic dialogue in five years between key members China, Japan, and South Korea. The EU wants to strengthen and green its trade agreements with Mexico, Canada, and Brazil, and is reaching out to the UAE on a new free trade agreement. An alliance between ASEAN countries and the Gulf Cooperation Council will be discussed by heads of state of Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia. In international relations, trade, security and capital markets, the themes are the same: in place of decades of reliance on the US and its assets, the rest of the world is now seeking to diversify, decarbonize, defend, and dedollarize. It’s far from clear how a unipolar US-led global order could possibly be repaired. Reforms to institutions like the World Bank and IMF have foundered on Congressional approval, but even with US cooperation any such change to the formal architecture would require new levels of trust and commitment between Europe and China in particular, and with other powerful countries and blocs including Japan, Brazil, and the GCC countries. Brazil and South Africa are leading diplomatic efforts through their 2025 presidencies of BRICS, COP30, and the G20. Discussion of a new trading and financial architecture, capable of providing policy space to pursue green structural transformation is now accelerating. Developing countries are not passive in the polycrisis but are actively trying to wrestle control over their destinies. With Trump blowing up the world order, there is suddenly more space for such countries to work with China, Europe and East Asia. Things have changed permanently—even if all the Trump tariffs are rolled back tomorrow, and even if the Republicans enter the political wilderness in 2028.

Jonathan V. Last at The Bulwark:

One year ago today Donald Trump was sworn in as president and the American-led global order that had structured world affairs since 1945 ended. The world did not realize this reality at the time. Europeans thought they could bargain with Trump to maintain the status quo. Russia thought it could manipulate Trump to get Ukraine. China thought it could use Trump’s weakness to finally grasp Taiwan. None of these power centers appreciated that Trump, the Republican party, and the American people were about to demolish the entire geo-strategic balance in an unprecedented act of national self-mutilation. We don’t need to recapitulate the events of the last year. We’ve all seen them. Instead, let’s talk about the new world that is forming, today, as we speak.

1) Abdication

We are witness to something rare in human history: Abdication by the leader of the global order. We have seen empires fall and civilizations crumble. But we’ve almost never seen a people renounce their leadership of the world—all at once, in full public view.1 That is what has happened in the 365 days since January 20, 2025. Here’s what comes next. The blinding of Five Eyes. The UKUSA intelligence sharing agreement—informally known as Five Eyes—has been in danger since Tulsi Gabbard was appointed director of national intelligence. But we’ve gone further than the possibility of having a Russia sympathizer atop the U.S. intelligence community: America’s allies now understand that we are—at best—a strategic competitor to Canada and the United Kingdom and at worst a threat to the other English-speaking countries. The days of intelligence sharing between America and our former allies are drawing to a close.

The death of NATO. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was conceived as a way to tame Europe. By establishing the United States as the strategic counterweight to the continent, NATO (a) held the Soviets in check but also (b) removed the need for Germany to re-arm at a scale sufficient to tip the local military balance and menace its neighbors. NATO is now a zombie organization. America has progressed from unreliable ally to overt threat to European sovereignty. Europe will re-arm. There is no longer any question on this point. The new nuclear age begins. The world’s three largest nuclear powers are now expansionist predator states. This leaves the lesser nuclear powers no choice but to create their own umbrellas while buying time for smaller allies to join the nuclear club. Germany, Poland, and Canada will acquire nuclear weapons. So will Japan. Sweden, Australia, and South Korea may develop nuclear capabilities as well.

Europe + China. The Chinese communist regime is authoritarian. It does not adhere to the rule of law in any meaningful way. But while it is ambitious, it is stable, and it understands that stability is its biggest advantage. China does not threaten Europe as acutely as Russia and the United States do, and Europe needs some stability undergirding the next world order. Europe will draw closer to China and supplant the United States as China’s main trading partner.

Ukraine will join Europe. As Europe rearms it will need Ukraine’s defense industrial base; therefore it will draw Ukraine into its collective security arrangement (the EU’s, not NATO’s) once the Russo-Ukraine war draws to a close.

Greenland will become disputed territory. Greenland is about to become, like Crimea or Kashmir or the little islands in the South China Sea, disputed territory. The Republican party has made an unmistakable, irrevocable territorial claim on Greenland. There are only two possible ways to resolve this question. The first would be for the United States to pass some form of binding legislation renouncing the claim and prohibiting annexation of Greenland. But even that might not be enough of a guarantee, since the rule of law is teetering in America. The second solution would be for America to give up Pituffik Space Base and withdraw its military presence from the island. Absent those actions, Europe must consider any pause in America’s attempt to annex Greenland as temporary and subject to renewal whenever 40,000 Wisconsinites are aggrieved about the price of eggs.

2. This Is Who We Are

Another prediction: We are about to see the free world stop referring to the great unraveling as a Trump problem. They will soon understand that it is an America problem. Many people comfort themselves by saying some version of “Donald Trump is an aberration” or “This isn’t who we are.” Both of those sentiments are incorrect. If Trump was an aberration and his actions did not have sufficient public support, then he would be removed from office. There are two mechanisms for doing so—impeachment and the 25th Amendment. Trump will not be removed from office; which allows one of two conclusions. Either:

Trump’s policies are supported by a sufficient percentage of Americans to be viable; or

America’s constitutional order is so ossified that it no longer functions to safeguard the will of the people.2

Neither of these is an alibi; either one supports the conclusion that the problem is not Trump. It is America and Americans. This is who we are. Like it or not.

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(2) How long will the dollar remain the world’s reserve currency? The advantages America reaps from the rest of the world using the dollar as the global reserve currency has been discussed frequently. The de-dollarization trend was already moving before America renounced its commitments. If American debt is no longer attractive and the American central bank is no longer independent, then markets will look elsewhere for a global reserve currency and will settle on either the euro or, if China makes some changes, the yuan.5

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Several of the biggest BRICS countries are essentially sanctioned from USD and SWIFT and are actually keeping the dollar very relevant through the use of USD pegged stable coins like Tether, which processed $11T in transactions last year, over $100B/day.

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Context.

Two main reasons.

1. Bibi showing his 'New Middle East' map at the UN completely erasing Palestine.

2. Serial provocations at Al-Aqsa, including a storming by hundreds of Israeli settlers.

Al-Aqsa is a definitive red line - for Palestinians, for the Arab world, and for the lands of Islam.

Yet there's WAY more.

The dead giveaway is the Israeli rhetoric of a 'Pearl Harbor'.

Everyone knows what it means.

Project Ukraine is dead.

So the Masters of the Universe need a new war ("on terror") to set West Asia on fire.

Peaceful West Asia means reconstruction for Syria, redevelopment for Iraq and Lebanon, Iran and Saudi Arabia as part of BRICS 11, the Russia-China strategic partnership respected and engaged all across West Asia.

The Northern Sea Route is already in effect, directly undermining the Suez Canal.

One of the key themes discussed at Valdai at the highest level was de-dollarization.

All of the above is anathema for the usual suspects.

Mossad and IDF caught by surprise is childish fantasy. They knew it was coming.

The question now is whether Hezbollah will be coming to town.