• TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Everytime the US bullies a country, there are louder and louder cries to leave it behind. It hasn’t been possible until recently due to blind luck of the US getting the world currency after WW2 which was only because it didn’t get obliterated like everyone else in Europe.

    Now with BRICS, the USA is playing a very dangerous game of chicken.

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      4 months ago

      For instance, US sanctions are starving Venezuelans, the Venezuelan government is doing its best but can’t use it’s natural resources to sell off to feed the people. It devastatingly impacts the people living there, just like war.

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      4 months ago

      Care to explain why? Because the government your people installed led to regression and corruption? And now they want nothing to do with you???