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Dec 2, 2024 10 tweets 4 min read Read on X
🧵 Can Save Trump Save the Dollar with Threats Against BRICS?

I cannot remember Trump ever talking about BRICS, but the first time he did was to threaten the multilateral organization with 100% tariffs, if it creates a BRICS currency.

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America’s prosperity depends on the “exorbitant privilege” of USD

This allows US to run massive budget and trade deficits every year.

Trump knows it.

"If we lose the global reserve currency status of the dollar, we will become a third-world country! "
In the past, US deep state & military would stage coups, assassinate leaders or invade countries if anyone decided to walk away from the dollar – Iraq and Libya, for example.

So much for freedom, choice, sovereignty, free trade, rules-based order, and free-market capitalism.
Trump does not talk about WHY so many countries want to join BRICS.

Two main reasons:

1. Weaponization of US dollar thru sanctions -- e.g., US stole $400 billion of Russia/s FOREX

2. Globalists use the dollar to create a military empire that causes perpetual wars & chaos.
Ask Americans why the USD is the #1 choice for trade and FOREX, they will tell you it’s because the dollar is strong, enjoys vast liquidity, and US economy is free, open and the best.

That’s propaganda.

The dollar’s hegemony is based on tyranny. And it’s coming to an end.
Ask the British, Portuguese, Spanish, French etc. about the history of their currencies.

Nothing lasts forever, especially the global reserve currency status -- see chart below.

#Trump #BRICS Global Reserve Currencies since 1450
US dollar’s market share in global reserves was 0 before the end of WW1. That’s right -- zero, nada, zilch.

British Pound, German Mark and French Franc accounted for 80% of the global reserves.

WW1 weakened Europe & gave the dollar a chance, although the share started to dwindle during the Great Depression.Image
In 1944 -- midst of WW2 -- US brought world leaders to Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, and forced USD upon them.

The gold-backed dollar lasted for ~25 years.

USD almost died in the 1970s, when it was revived by a deal with Saudi Arabia – this was the birth of the Petrodollar.Image
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Having one currency dominate the world is imperialism.

The multipolar train has left the station. Everyone is seeking alternatives to dollar.

This includes trading in local currencies and also trying to create a BRICS currency -- democratic and free from sanctions. Image
It's going to take some time for the US dollar to lose its "King" status.

Look how long it took for the British Pound to lose its status after WW2.

So, the dollar probably has another 10-15 years. Image

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The road to free market was not easy in China.

Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening up started in 1978.

1. But China did not right away embrace private enterprises and capitalism.

2. Private enterprises were illegal and not even officially recognized until 1988! (A few Special Economic Zones like Shenzhen had more freedom)Image
3. Some entrepreneurs in the 1980s were allowed to run private businesses under the "red hat" -- i.e., pretending to be collectives or government-owned.

4. 1980s: There were also high taxes and numerous restrictions such as maximum 5 employees in a private enterprise. Image
5. Only in 1994 did private enterprises get many legal protections and freedom.

6. In 1999, the Chinese Constitution was amended to acknowledge that the private sector is an "important component" of the economy.

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Hitler was funded by Western oligarchs, corporations & bankers.

Rockefeller, Wall Street, British royal family etc. were all invested in Nazi Germany; and Zionists were making deal with him.

If Hitler had defeated Russia, Hollywood would have made very different movies.

Time magazine 1936:Image
General Motors (GM), Ford and Chrysler built all kinds of war machines for Hitler.

Luftwaffe, the Nazi airforce, depended on engines made by GM.
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Lying Media are recycling their Xinjiang propaganda, now aimed at Tibet, China.

Interestingly, last week, I went to a primary school in Lhasa, which had some boarding students!

Why? Because their parents literally live in remote mountains where there are no schools!

🧵 on my visit.

Here’s a description of the media below:

1. This was the welcome dance!😍
2. The primary school (quite big & fancy)
3. The rooms where the kids sleep
4. Classroom for learning Tibetan language
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Me trying calligraphy for the first time and actually drawing the character of “heaven” without knowing it! 😆

The school principal was super nice, sincere, smart, and full of energy. So I took a photo with her at the end.

#Tibet #China
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Second pic: A child writing Tibetan language.

The kids have a lot of extracurricular activities in this primary school.

Not sure if this is true for all schools in Lhasa or these are some gifted children.

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India is all talk, no action.

Without R&D spending, there won’t be real innovation, patents, homegrown products or giant companies.

Only 0.7% of GDP goes towards research and development. Image
Look at the top 10 research institutes in the world.

8 out of 10 are from China. Image
And the prestigious international patents (WIPO PCT)

China #1, USA #2, India #9.

China = 15x India. Image
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I bought a 1965 Playboy magazine from an old bookstore.

Here are some fascinating things about the magazine:

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First, it wasn’t raunchy by today’s standards!

Shows how far we have gone (in the wrong direction?).

Even the Playboy of the Month photo in the centerfold wouldn’t be considered pornographic today. Image
There were way more photos for fashion and lifestyle than semi-naked women. Perhaps a ratio of 20 to 1. Image
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My thread on the futility of Trump’s well-intentioned but misguided economic policies of trade wars and tariffs to revive American manufacturing:
Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Reagan… it’s an American political tradition to impose tariffs, even though they have never helped create jobs or protect manufacturing! 😆
When the American Civil War ended in 1865, half of all Americans were farmers.

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