The Americans are still playing the sanction game to threaten and weaken the economies of enemy countries. When sanction is applied to a few countries, it works quite well. When sanction is applied to many countries, sanctioning a country like China or Russia is like sanctioning tens of countries because of their size, it would become the world sanctioning the Americans, when the Americans could only trade with themselves and the Anglo Saxon countries and a few European countries. The 'sanctioner' becomes the sanctioned.
When this stage is reached, not only the American economy will be hurt, the Anglo Saxon and pro American European countries would also be hurt badly. Imagine these countries could only trade among themselves while the rest of the world trade among themselves without them?
The effectiveness of sanction depends on two key factors, a big American consumption market and the American dollar being accepted as a currency. The rest of the world are selling to the Americans, working very hard, to produce goods for the Americans in exchange for that piece of fiat currency, the American dollar.
What if the world rejects the American dollar and refuses to accept it to pay for their goods? When this happens, the Americans would have no money to buy from the rest of the world. Their huge appetite for produced goods would go hungry and Wallmart and all the supermarts would be empty. And when the world did not or would not want to sell to the Americans, the sanction game is game over. No country would care a hoot whether they are being sanctioned or not when they are not selling into the American market.
Not only the sanction game would be over, meaningless, toothless, it would also be game over for the American economy and the American Empire. Every good thing when pushed to the extreme would turn negative. Weaponising of dollars, trade, SWIFT, etc would bring about their demise when alternatives are found. Weaponising the American market using sanctions too would be self destruct when it is no longer the biggest market or market of choice.
Why would the rest of the world work so hard to make goods to exchange for a piece of useless dollar so that the Americans can enjoy the fruits of labour of the world, without having to work for it? The Americans did not know how good the system has been for them for so long and are now inciting the world to tear it down. Well done America.
Look at the BRI chess board. in the previous article. When the world map turns red except for the Anglo Saxon and a few semi colonies and lackeys, the red countries would be trading among themselves without the need to trade with the Anglo Saxon countries and their semi colonies. That is happening gradually and the picture will be complete soon with another handful of countries in Latin America and Africa joining the fold.