An empire that has to sanction, confiscate and bomb to force the rest of the world to use its currency is no longer a pillar of stability: it is a factor of global chaos. The dollar no longer reigns through trust, but through fear. And as this monetary privilege cracks, the United States is revealing its true face: that of a power prepared to put the world at risk in order to delay the inevitable. This article is not about anti-Americanism. It is about a system at the end of its life, and the price that humanity risks paying for its agony.
For almost a century, the United States has dominated the world not through the quality of its currency, but through the quality of its people. the ability to impose its use. The dollar has never been strong because of discipline; it has been strong because of constraint, by forced standard, by military power. Today, this system is reaching the end of its tether. And the more it collapses, the more dangerous the empire that supports it becomes for the rest of humanity.
What we are experiencing is not just another currency crisis. It is the disintegration of the central pillar of the American order, and therefore the end of an imperial cycle.
1) The dollar: a currency without a peg, held together by force
Since 1971, the dollar has no longer been backed by gold. It is not backed by real assets, balanced budgets or national savings. It is backed by a single thing: American geopolitical domination.
The figures speak for themselves:
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US federal debt : > $34,000 billion, 120 % of GDP.
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Structural annual deficits exceeding 1,500 billion in “normal” periods.
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Interest payments have become one of the largest items in the federal budget.
No currency has survived this level of imbalance for long. with no real foothold. None - except when it is imposed on the whole world.
This is where the petrodollar As long as the world's energy is paid for in dollars, the world is financing American deficits. The US can print, the rest of the world has to produce.
But this mechanism is cracking.
2) De-dollarisation is no longer talk, it's a fact
Since 2022, a break has taken place. Not ideological, but functional.
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Russia is selling a growing proportion of its energy outside the dollar.
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China settles its strategic exchanges in local currencies or in yuan.
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Iran, under sanctions, has built up parallel circuits.
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The BRICS countries now represent around 40 % of world GDP (PPP) and develop independent payment infrastructures.
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Central banks bought more than 1,000 tonnes of gold a year in the last two years - an all-time record.
These are not speeches. These are decisions on cash flow, regulations and sovereignty.
And gold is back at the centre, precisely because it is out of system, No sanctions, no money printing.
As the writer Ferdinand Lips :
«The dollar only survives as long as gold remains marginalised. Any accumulation of gold is a declaration of independence.»
3) When monetary hegemony collapses, empire becomes violent
The story is constant: empires do not fall quietly. They become aggressive as they lose their grip.
Iraq, Libya, Syria, Venezuela: each time, the same mechanism.
We invoke morality. We talk about democracy, drugs and terrorism.
But there's always :
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a strategic resource,
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a monetary dispute,
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a refusal to submit to the dollar.
When a currency is based on trust, it is defended by credibility.
When it relies on strength, it defends itself with war.
Today, the United States no longer protects a world order: it protect their monetary privilege. And to achieve this, they are prepared to :
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sanction entire countries,
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confiscate foreign reserves,
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militarising trade,
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criminalise de-dollarisation.
It is this shift that makes the United States a systemic threat, not because they are powerful, but because they are in decline.
4) The dollar empire versus productive humanity
The dollar system has three major toxic effects on a global scale:
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Monetary spoliation
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Chronic instability
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Wars to maintain monetary order
No system based on these three pillars is sustainable. None is moral. None is compatible with a sovereign multipolar world.
Conclusion: the collapse of the dollar is not a risk, it's a blessing in disguise.
The end of the dollar as a hegemonic currency will not be the end of the world.
This will be the the end of an imperial privilege, and perhaps the beginning of a rebalancing.
The danger is not the fall of the American empire.
The danger is his reaction to the fall.
An empire that has to bomb to defend its currency is already doomed.
A world that continues to submit to this blackmail is an accomplice.
Humanity does not need a monetary master armed to the teeth.
It needs currencies rooted in reality, of respected sovereignty and free trade without guns or ultimatums.
The dollar is dying.
The real question is simple: How many countries will the empire take with it before it accepts reality?
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