Trump outlined a deliberate plan in his first administration (2018) to use US military power to enforce dollarization and control of US financial markets as the primary mechanism to sustain US balance-of-payments dominance, replacing the gold standard system that collapsed in 1971.
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Michael HudsonEvidence Quote
“Trump himself was outlining the plan already in his first administration way back in 2018. He said that the number one aim was set up...America's military spending abroad and attempt to enforce a US-centered world order, dollarization, US financial markets had been since 1950 the main balance of payments drain on the United States.”
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