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People all over the world are suffering right now.

And they know who to blame. The U.S. and Israel.

This is a long term, probably irreversible, disaster for both countries.

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> Major geopolitical failure by the US.

Nah, soft power is out. Bluntly, if the Philippines strays too far from US interests, they can be strangled, first economically, then militarily.

If the Us keeps attacking its allies economically and militarily the petrodollar will crumble and those trillions of dollars of debt will start to be a heavy burden

So it's all going to plan then?

If dollar crumbles, the debt becomes lighter, no?

Tons of countries buy the dollar bond because it’s a safe bet. It’s how the world does finance.

If that stops, then the world stops buying dollars. And then America has to start justifying why a printed dollar justifies buying an import from China or Europe of real valuable goods

Of course, that’s what US will do to its old allies.