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Like how the US impotently tried to destroy the Russian economy by fully weaponizing the USD, how did that work out? Not so great - all that served to do is begin the process of displacing the dollar as the world reserve. There is a point when your attempts to isolate a target only serve to further isolate yourself - and we are well past it.

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i don't see why this was downvoted. It's entirely correct that the impact on the russian economy was far less than hoped for. One youtube documentary I saw stated -2% GDP, whereas the expected amount people wanted and expected was on the order of 20 to 30%. they go into quite a bit of detail on why this is the case. And USD, is well on track to be displaced in a few decades: central banks across the world are dumping dollars on average 6% of US dollar reserves per year (although this was already started abeit more slowly in 2008).

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