It is a fallacy, therefore, to think that the dollar’s only defender is the US. Anyone who tried to end the dollar’s reign would be equally resisted by German industrialists, Saudi sheikhs and European bankers. The last thing French and Dutch exporters would want to see is the elevation of the euro to the dollar’s throne. The only governments who have ever truly desired the dollar’s demise are those directly threatened by Washington’s attempts at regime change.[7] As for the people, the one population who stand to gain the most from the abolition of the dollar’s global role are working- and
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