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He says forcing China to buy from America in U.S. dollars would let America set terms and support the dollar economy.
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He says forcing China to buy from America in U.S.
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He frames the Western Hemisphere as a peaceful fortress that can supply a world at war with energy, resources, weapons, financing, and dollars.
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The U.S. debt problem is reframed as resource leverage: if Asia and Europe need North American energy and fertilizer, they have less room to abandon U.S. Treasuries and the dollar system.
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Dollar printing funds corruption, worsens inequality, and encourages young people either to opt out through lying flat or to gamble through Bitcoin, markets, and sports betting.
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America's three operational advantages in this war are technology, propaganda, and money: advanced targeting and weapons, control of information platforms, and the dollar money printer.
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The dollar's gold peg is presented as a stabilizer that prevents the Americans from printing unlimited money inside the reserve-currency system.
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Nixon ending dollar-gold redemption in 1971 turns the dollar, in Jiang's words, into a Ponzi scheme whose value depends on people wanting to use it.
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Once the world is addicted to dollars, America can control the global economy by controlling pricing.
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"...the United States will say, you have to buy in U.S. dollars, okay? And that saves their economy, right? Does it make sense, guys?..."
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"...stuff as well. And what do we call this stuff? U.S. dollars, okay? And so this worked really well in the 1950s under something..."
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"Same concept here where in the future the world is at war, people are poor, but it's okay because America will lend you money..."
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"Okay? And why does this matter? Well, let's look at this. Let's look at who owns the most U.S. Treasuries. Basically, if you own..."
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"...fear that Europe and Asia would move away from the U.S. dollar and more towards Swiss francs or gold. Okay? Now, because Europe and..."
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"Okay? All right? The $39 trillion debt, not a problem because the entire world is dependent on North America for resources. The Ponzi scheme..."
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"...All right? And the third thing, the university of the US dollar leads to printing dollars. Okay? Or just basically corruption. Where because America..."
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"...or I gamble. I pray that if I put a million dollars in Bitcoin, it'll go up to 10 million dollars. Or the stock..."
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"...it's a very simple idea. The United States controls the US dollar, which is the reserve currency of the world."
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"And the United States can print as much US dollars as it needs in order to win this war. It has an infinite money..."
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"...like wait a minute here if this is true the u.s dollar can the americans can just put as much money as they want..."
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"...off everyone, okay? So, screw this. We're not gonna peg the dollar to gold anymore, okay? Do you understand? You can now no longer..."
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