{"id":65242,"date":"2023-04-06T09:47:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T14:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65242"},"modified":"2023-04-06T09:47:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T14:47:56","slug":"the-last-war-we-can-afford-to-fight-tucker-carlson-sounds-alarm-over-de-dollarization-slams-biden-admin-for-pissing-off-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65242","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Last War We Can Afford To Fight&#8221;: Tucker Carlson Sounds Alarm Over De-Dollarization, Slams Biden Admin For Pissing Off World"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__z0vIZ\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__FDrpw\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/last-war-we-can-afford-fight-tucker-carlson-sounds-alarm-over-de-dollarization-slams\">&#8220;The Last War We Can Afford To Fight&#8221;: Tucker Carlson Sounds Alarm Over De-Dollarization, Slams Biden Admin For Pissing Off World<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__2jyAd\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__HBEFs NodeBody_container__eeFKv\">\n<p>As we&#8217;ve noted several times of late,\u00a0<strong>a growing number of countries are threatening the US dollar&#8217;s status as the global reserve currency<\/strong>\u00a0by conducting global trade without it &#8211; you know, the thing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/saddam-made-two-strategic-mistakes-to-invite-us-wrath\/articleshow\/2965361.cms\">Saddam<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theecologist.org\/2016\/mar\/14\/why-qaddafi-had-go-african-gold-oil-and-challenge-monetary-imperialism\">Gaddafi<\/a>\u00a0threatened to do before they were &#8216;liberated&#8217; from their mortal coils for other stated reasons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/dollar%20reserve.jpg?itok=yEIMoDMY\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/dollar%20reserve.jpg?itok=yEIMoDMY\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/dollar%20reserve.jpg?itok=yEIMoDMY\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"de83bd11-5ba0-4269-91e9-d70ed619e07b\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some recent headlines;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/no-reason-malaysia-rely-us-dollar-pm-warns-yuan-influence-grows\">&#8220;No Reason&#8221; For Malaysia To Rely On US Dollar, PM Warns As Yuan Influence Grows<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/de-dollarization-just-got-real\">De-Dollarization Just Got Real<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/here-are-7-signs-global-de-dollarization-has-just-shifted-overdrive\">Here Are 7 Signs That Global De-Dollarization Has Just Shifted Into Overdrive<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/de-dollarization-has-begun\">De-Dollarization Has Begun<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Fox News<\/em>\u00a0host Tucker Carlson has picked up on this,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/tucker-carlson-war-against-russia-last-war-afford-fight\">big time<\/a>, noting that the process began after the Biden administration started\u00a0<strong>wielding the dollar as a political weapon<\/strong>\u00a0by freezing US dollars held by Russians.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson cites an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/03\/30\/opinion-the-ukraine-war-could-be-the-final-nail-in-the-dollars-coffin-ej-antoni-peter-st-onge\/\">article<\/a>\u00a0from the\u00a0<em>Daily Caller<\/em>, in which authors E.J. Antoni and Peter St. Onge write:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>A second critical feature of a reserve currency is its apolitical nature. Which Biden is now gutting.<\/strong>\u00a0After both parties in Washington destroyed the dollar\u2019s stability with inflation, now the Biden administration has chosen to wield the dollar as a weapon. Together, the message to foreigners they should get out while they still can.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In response to Russia\u2019s war with the Ukraine, the US froze the dollar reserves of Russia\u2019s central bank.<\/strong>\u00a0To be clear, these were not American assets, but were\u00a0<strong>dollars owned by the Russian central bank and the Russian people<\/strong>. The seizure was intended to cause bank runs and collapse Russia\u2019s credit system.\u00a0<strong>It didn\u2019t work.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Instead, it exposed the Biden administration\u2019s willingness to violate the trillions of dollars foreigners rightfully own.<\/strong>\u00a0The danger of this precedent is difficult to overstate.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This part is a\u00a0<strong>must-hear from Carlson<\/strong>\u00a0in response to the above (starts at 7:15 in the video below):<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Last War We Can Afford To Fight&#8221;: Tucker Carlson Sounds Alarm Over De-Dollarization, Slams Biden Admin For Pissing Off World As we&#8217;ve noted several times of late,\u00a0a growing number of countries are threatening the US dollar&#8217;s status as the global reserve currency\u00a0by conducting global trade without it &#8211; you know, the thing\u00a0Saddam\u00a0and\u00a0Gaddafi\u00a0threatened to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[1025,33810,3230,14693,8154,839,5482,4318],"class_list":["post-65242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-de-dollarization","tag-dollar-weaponisation","tag-fox-news","tag-tucker-carlson","tag-ukraine-war","tag-us-dollar","tag-world-reserve-currency","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65243,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65242\/revisions\/65243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}