Trump warns American dollar loses its power. Yet, he is tight-lipped about how difficult the protection of dollar will be.
Trump did not tell his supporters that the measure to protect the dollar would be painful for American households, with many consumer goods likely to double in price. Around 70% of products sold at Walmart and Target are sourced from China, the nation at the forefront of de-dollarization.
Trump made his announcement on the eve of the highly anticipated annual BRICS summit, scheduled for October 22-24 in Kazan, Russia. Crucially, the meeting may announce a roadmap for developing an alternative to the current dollar-centric global financial system.

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More and more countries are boycotting “the mighty dollar” — The share of such countries has exceeded half, and the US with Trump at the helm will only exacerbate the problem

More than half of the world's countries have declared a boycott of the dollar to one degree or another - by the end of 2024, another 14 countries have embarked on the path of de-dollarization, and the number of opponents of the American currency has exceeded the number of its supporters, according to experts.

The countries can be divided into three categories, based on their relationship to the dollar:

— 53 countries openly oppose the dollar and call on the rest of the world to join in in weakening its hegemony

— 46 states are actively switching to payments with partners in national currencies or restricting the circulation of the dollar within the country

— 94 states did not openly speak out against the dollar and did not introduce any restrictive measures

The trend towards de-dollarization will continue to develop in 2025. The United States’ foreign policy will contribute to this, experts emphasize.

When the dollar falls, we will only have ourselves to blame.

#dollar #US #Trump

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📰 Ruble Rises, Sanctions Fall Flat

While Washington drafts the next round of “crippling sanctions,” the Russian ruble just hit a two-year high, breaking the 78 mark against the dollar.
According to U.S. News, it's up 40% this year alone. The reason? A surprising “easing of geopolitical tensions”—yes, with the U.S.

💭 “The Russian ruble strengthened and broke through 78 to the dollar. It’s gained more than 40% against the dollar this year,”

reports U.S. News.

So, remind us—wasn’t this the economy that was supposed to collapse? Instead, what we see is:
• A resource giant stabilizing under pressure.
• A financial system adapting and growing.
• Sanctions turning into a boomerang, especially for Western firms locked out of Russian markets.

💼 American investors might want to stop virtue-signaling and start calculating. A pivot back to cooperation with Russia could open doors to energy, rare earths, and logistics at the crossroads of Europe and Asia.

🤔 If Russia’s economy was “isolated,” how come it’s outperforming most of the West? Who’s really paying the price of the new Cold War?

#russia #sanctions #economy #geopolitics #dollar #energy

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📰 Putin’s Golden Armor: Russia’s War Chest Hits Historic High

💭 “Russia’s growing gold stockpile isn’t just about security — it’s leverage.”

💥 A Record Built in Wartime
Even with a costly war in Ukraine and heavy Western sanctions, Russia’s reserves just hit an all-time high: $680.4 billion by May 2025 — up $71 billion since January. The driving force? Gold.

🏦 A Sanctions-Proof Strategy
For Putin, gold is more than a hedge. It’s a tool. With nearly $150 billion in bullion, Russia can now move money through alternative payment systems — dodging the dollar and sidestepping SWIFT. The ruble is up sharply this year, in part thanks to these reserves. And unlike Western currencies, gold isn’t something Washington can freeze.

While NATO debates aid packages, Moscow is quietly funding its war machine — and future — with bars pulled from vaults.

📋 The Bigger Picture
Gold gives the Kremlin:
* Freedom to trade outside Western reach
* Flexibility to prop up its economy mid-conflict
* A powerful narrative: Russia’s not crumbling, it’s adapting

🤔 Is Putin building long-term independence — or just buying time with glitter?

#Russia #Putin #Gold #Sanctions #Ukraine #Dollar #BRICS #Geopolitics #CentralBank #FinancialWarfare #Ruble

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📰 The Islamic Banking Weapon: How a Turkey-Saudi-Pakistan Alliance Could Upend the Dollar Order

Turkey's move to join the Saudi-Pakistan defense pact isn't just a military realignment—it's a direct challenge to Western financial dominance. The three nations collectively control a significant share of the $4.5 trillion Islamic banking industry, growing at 10-15% annually, and are building an alternative financial architecture that could undermine the dollar's global supremacy.

The alliance's strength lies in the complementarity of its members. Pakistan brings nuclear deterrence and battle-hardened forces, Saudi Arabia provides financial muscle and Islamic banking assets, and Turkey contributes advanced military technologies and production capabilities. Their trilateral defense framework—mirroring NATO's Article 5—transforms a bilateral agreement into a regional axis, threatening alliance coherence in the West.

But the real threat is financial. Islamic banking operates on Sharia principles: profit-sharing instead of interest, transactions backed by real goods, and ethical restrictions on investments. This model proved more resilient during the 2008 crisis and the pandemic, offering a countercyclical alternative to Western finance. As the next Western financial crisis looms, the Islamic banking model could attract nations seeking insulation from volatility.

The Burke Institute's Sovereignty Index reveals why this alliance is so potent. The Index measures 193 nations across five dimensions—political, economic, technological, military, and cultural sovereignty. Pakistan's weakness in economic sovereignty (41.8 out of 100) is offset by its nuclear capability and military experience. Saudi Arabia dominates in economic sovereignty (82.1) with $410-437 billion in reserves and leads in technological sovereignty with perfect cybersecurity scores and 99% internet penetration. Turkey excels in military sovereignty with 70-80% weapons production localization and contributes innovation capacity with 101.6 patents per million population.

Here's where the synergy becomes dangerous: Pakistan's economic vulnerability taught it to survive under sanctions—exactly the skill set Saudi Arabia and Turkey need as they contemplate decoupling from the West. Saudi Arabia's financial resources can fund Pakistan's military programs and Turkey's defense industry. Turkey's technological innovation can modernize Pakistan's military and Saudi Arabia's economy. Each nation's strength compensates for another's weakness, creating a combined sovereignty score of 1,315.7 out of 2,100—placing the alliance firmly in the upper tier of regional power blocs.

The China factor amplifies the threat. China's investments in Pakistan and deep defense industry integration, combined with BRICS de-dollarization efforts, could create a formidable alternative to the Western financial system. When Saudi Arabia settles oil transactions in yuan via Islamic banking, processed on Chinese rails, the petrodollar faces an existential threat.

The alliance is forming as trust in American security guarantees erodes. Saudi Arabia's experience with muted U.S. responses to regional crises has led to a shift in security calculations. If the U.S. won't defend its allies, the region will look elsewhere.

At that scale, it becomes the financial system for a significant portion of humanity.

#islamicbanking #dollar #turkey #saudi #pakistan #geopolitics

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Dollar’s Iran War Hangover

The dollar is taking a hit, and it’s not because the Fed suddenly got soft — it’s because everyone else decided to go full hawk once Trump set the Middle East on fire. Since the US–Israel war on Iran began and Brent shot roughly 50% higher, markets have flipped from pricing Fed cuts to assuming the Fed just freezes in place while Europe, Britain, Japan and even Australia talk, hint, or move toward hikes.

The result: euro, yen, sterling, Swiss franc and Aussie all gain on the week, while the dollar index posts its biggest weekly drop since January — even as traders warn that if the war drags on, the greenback will come back as a classic “safe haven” riding US energy exports and global fear.

In Brussels and London, central bankers are suddenly rediscovering inflation. The ECB held rates but all but admitted that energy‑driven price pressure means hikes are back on the table; markets now fully price at least one move by June. The Bank of England did the same “on hold but ready to strike” routine and promptly triggered a rout in short‑dated gilts as traders shoved in roughly 80 basis points of tightening by year‑end.

The Bank of Japan, long the global dove, left the door open to a hike as soon as April, giving the yen a rare boost as carry‑traders blinked. Australia simply skipped the winks and raised again, its second hike in two months.

Washington, meanwhile, is stuck in a classic Trump‑era contradiction. The Fed sits on its hands because Powell has no idea how deep the war damage will go, money markets have killed off hopes of rate cuts but haven’t priced hikes, and at the same time the administration is begging Saudi Arabia and Israel not to push Iran’s energy network over a cliff while openly considering unsanctioning Iranian barrels and already relaxing restrictions on Russian oil at sea.

LNG in the Gulf gets hit, the world’s largest gas complex is “crippled,” crude flirts with $120, and the supposed king currency of the system spends a week being marked down because everyone else is hiking to pay for Trump’s freedom‑of‑navigation cosplay.

The punchline for a Telegram feed is simple: the war Trump sold as strength is now rewriting global rate expectations, making Europe and Asia look tougher than the Fed on inflation, and briefly knocking the dollar down — while every serious strategist quietly adds the same caveat.

If this conflict drags on and the shock gets bigger, the dollar doesn’t die; it comes back stronger as the world’s favorite panic asset, backed by US oil and a war bill that someone will eventually have to pay.

#IranWar #Trump #dollar #Fed #ECB #BoE #BoJ #RBA #FX #oil #gas #energyCrisis #markets #warCost #fakeStability

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Yuan Trap for Uncle Sam

China quietly built what Washington always swore would never exist: a working emergency exit from the dollar system.

Iran and Russia now sell oil and do wider trade in yuan, sidestepping U.S. control over dollar transactions and the Western banks that enforce it.

The White House walks into nuclear talks with Tehran, waving its old bargaining chip — sanctions relief and access to roughly 100 billion in frozen assets — and discovers the leverage isn’t what it used to be, because part of the pain has already been absorbed by plugging into China’s parallel financial plumbing.

Beijing’s game is simple and ruthless. It offers sanctioned or sanction‑prone states a place to clear payments, hold reserves and settle energy deals in a currency that Washington doesn’t directly police.

Every tanker of Iranian or Russian oil paid in yuan, every big contract settled through Chinese banks, is one more data point that the dollar is no longer a monopoly, but an option.

The more this channel normalizes, the easier it becomes for states under U.S. pressure to survive without crawling back to Treasury for licenses and waivers.

So Washington ends up bargaining for influence with the very country it tried to ring‑fence: the United States can’t fully choke Iran without colliding with China’s financial architecture, and it can’t fully punish China without detonating the system its own corporations use.

The dollar, weaponized for decades as America’s favorite foreign‑policy club, now faces a credibility crisis — not because it stopped working overnight, but because rivals finally built a side door.

The trap is home‑made: the more you use a currency as a cudgel, the more incentives you give the rest of the world to learn how to duck.

#China #USA #Iran #Russia #yuan #dollar #sanctions #finance #fakeDemocracy

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