I mean we can already see the results today with Russia and China doing all their trade outside the dollar, and China increasingly doing currency swaps with other countries now. The dollar based economy is already shrinking as a result, and on top of that the US no longer has visibility into trade that's happening globally the way they used it. For example, a lot of predictions of China's economy slowing down was based on reduced imports from western countries using SWIFT system, but now we know that China was simply redirecting its trade away from the west and towards the Global South.

I dunno. Highly motivated, highly incentivized, backed by the most productive nations on the planet. I think those of us in the West are used to tranformative things taking forever because of the incompetence and the lack of incentives for the powers that be, and we forget how quickly our nations do transform things to harm us - DMCA, domestic surveillance, sharing intelligence, privatizing water, destroying habitats, etc.

i hope it doesnt. a dollar crisis will wipe us the fuck out.

The rise of crypto and other limited quantity intermediaries shows that stable value step is far easier than it once was, and of course with China and Russia having ridiculous levels of precious metal wealth a worse case scenario would just be a literal gold standard currency for brics transactions.

While the US might throw a hissy fit about this (I mean they invaded Libya exclusively because Libya were launching a gold standard to trying to get non US oil trading to adopt it) they dont have the ability to say no. The US has no manufacturing sector compared to China or Russia, the former of which the US relies on massively for the majority of its domestic manufacturing needs. It also can't compete in the remote service economy compared to India, and again has outsourced a large chunk of that part of its economy there.

US sanctions only work if the country sanctioned provides nothing of value that can't be easily done domestically. There's a reason that China as a whole is not sanctioned despite doing things far worse than Cuba ever did.

Refusing to trade in USD would be the same as sanctions in this scenario, and I'm willing to bet brics has figured out that they have enough demand across their member nations to support not trading with the US.

So you're saying usa empire will overthrow russia, china, brazil, and india?

I think it's more likely the USD will continue to decline in both value and usage.

While it's definitely true the US loves its war mongering, it's economy is dependent entirely on China and India. If they try to invade either country, it's game over for the US(and the world), and neither country is particularly vulnerable to the normal CIA methods. Falun gong in China, for example, is the CIA's best attempt at trying to sell America to the Chinese via homegrown terrorism, and they're so pathetically obvious it's doubtful anyone in China has ever fallen for their shit.

Capitalism removed the tools by which the US is a threat, allowing brics to be possible.

That's true for small countries that US is able to dominate economically and militarily. That is not possible to do with countries like Russia, India, or China. This is what it means to live in a multipolar world. The US is no longer the top dog who can just go around doing whatever it wants.

lmfao hard to think of a better example of a country tampering with its monetary system than the US printing trillions of dollars every few years 🤡

Can you elaborate? What tampering do you mean, what benefits does it provide, and why would the be lost because of this move?