• RangerJosey@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    Hi. American here. Us losing our reserve currency status is all I’ve wanted for half my life. It will be the deathblow to this evil fking empire and I can’t wait to see it happen.

    I know I’m boned. But knowing that the world at large can finally move beyond the regressive pull of the US gives me hope for the future.

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 days ago

      The problem here is we don’t have a better successor to our shitty system. China is likely to become the next dominant super power but we all know how fucked they’ve been to the Uyghurs, the Nepalese, India with border skirmishes, Asian mercantile boats through naval clashes, and practically every other country with their Wolf Warrior diplomacy. If fledgling markets thought US hegemony sucked, just think how China will treat them. They don’t give a fuck about soft power.

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        6 days ago

        That’s the real problem, China so far has made the Americans look good. But the way Americans are behaving (and their medium capabilities for reform) makes the calculus a little bit more complex.