But the obvious choice is getting murkier over time and getting away from the threat looks clearer with BRICS providing the alternative. Under Russia and China's protective umbrella in BRICS, both militarily and economically, unfolding events are undoubtedly changing the game. Russia is militarily about on par with the USA in terms of nuke capability. China underwrites the economic facade of BRICS, with the Chinese Yuan playing its part and providing the stability. BRICS is not formed for harvesting immediate results. It is for a longer-term objective of weaning countries away from using the US$. Rome was not built in a day, but the Roman Empire rose and flourish over time.
Decades ago, most countries faced the cardinal truth that the USA was their most important market for their exports. They provided the blood and sweat to produce the real goods in exchange for toilet paper printed out of thin air.
The strong USA military is the result of the US$ hegemony which must continue to function to provide the USA the ability to maintain such a widespread force globally. The US$ hegemony's continued existence is needed to maintain the USA military, while the USA military exists to protect the US$ hegemony. If the US$ hegemony fails, everything goes down like a house of cards, just like the British without the privilege of unlimited money printing powers then. Any weakening of the US$ hegemony, not necessarily its collapse, will render the USA military being heavily compromised.
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The only way to counter the USA is not through military conflict, a situation the USA had been preparing for under decades of military spending, which means no country can ever pull off even if they tried. Russia and China already did their calculations and created BRICS to de-dollarize global trade, or at least make the US$ less in demand, which will weaken the ability of the USA, in time to come.
In any case, the signs are already emerging that the world is not going to continue to buy USA treasuries and provide foreign investments to fund the USA's terrorism adventures. Who is next must be the fundamental question now in their minds.
Most likely, the USA will self-destruct with its unsustainable US$39 trillion debts on top of the hundreds of trillions of derivatives swimming in the books of the too big to fail banks, hedge funds and pension funds. It only needs an ignition point to send the whole house of cards tumbling down.
USA only needs a push to go down the edge of the cliff. Trump could do that, and my word he is doing exactly that. Iran might just be his Waterloo.
Trump bankrupting the USA is very much expected, I would say since his first term. But actually, he is the one holding the bag or the proverbial can that had been kicked along the road by former Presidents or passed on to him to be awarded the honors. After all, with six bankruptcies to his name, adding one more is going to boost Trump's ego further.
Trump tried to bully Canada and what he did is backfiring badly on the USA. He passed an executive order to keep out Canadian crude and Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, took up the challenge gleefully by selling his oil to Japan, South Korea, India and the European Union. China, by the way, is now the biggest oil market for Canada, so keep those executive orders coming Donnie.
In fact, Mark Carney was expecting this from Trump and had already done his homework earlier by signing contracts with those countries during his oversea visits. The most significant blessing in disguise was that Canada now sells oil at market prices when in the past it was selling them at a steep discount of around US$20 to US$25 a barrel to the USA. I must say this is a perfect case of Trump cutting his nose to spite his face. That Trump executive order is now a massive windfall for Canada, with multiple choices to sell its oil. Canada is now building pipelines East and West to export its oil, besides building refineries to process its own oil. Think about that.
Having said that, many USA oil refineries are now crippled from lack of Canadian heavy crude, and some are sitting idle without the feed. Pump prices in the USA are rising. Goods delivery costs are rising. Supermarket products are becoming more expensive. This has been compounded by the layoffs from big techs and things are not looking good for Trump in November, if he survives that long.
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