Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Iran joins group with China & Russia, calls to drop US dollar in trade" video.

  1. Yeah its about that stupid. Lets not forget that these nations fight each other as often as they shake hands. Its not a stupid concept to move away from the US$ especially considering the socio-political issues that are currently tearing America down the middle as well as America's attitude to foreign affairs BUT shifting control to countries that OPENLY execute dissidents or assassinates them and are so rife with corruption that its actually part of their standard practices IS NOT A SOLUTION.
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  2. Its not a stupid concept to move away from the US$ especially considering the socio-political issues that are currently tearing America down the middle as well as America's attitude to foreign affairs BUT shifting financial control to countries that are (at times) OPENLY hostile to each other AND OPENLY execute dissidents or assassinate them as well as being so rife with CORRUPTION that its actually part of their standard practices IS NOT A SOLUTION. Lets not forget that these countries DON'T like each other that much. India has issues with Pakistan and China that often ends with bullets. Russia has issues with China despite selling them heaps of oil & gas and lets not forget that China is still pissed they lost Outer Manchuria to the Russians a century ago. Most of the middle east and former Soviet Republics prefer shooting at each other than trade. The biggest resource of BRICS is actually people. They still have young people who are the primary consumers in any developed society. Peter Zeihan points this out all the time and its why India thinks it will be a major player in future. HOWEVER - both China and Russia are in serious population decline. At least the Russians haven't wasted Trillions on those ghost cities, but then the Russians have allowed Trillions to leave and spent on boats and soccer teams. Brasil and India have massive populations but MOST of them are poor and can't afford consumer goods yet. But the biggest issue they face are the monstrous cultural issues surrounding Religion. B - Brasil is Catholic; R - Russia is Eastern Orthodox; I - India is Hindu; C - China is 1/2 godless communists and 1/2 Confucians with a smattering of Muslims in between; S - South Africa is mostly Protestant Christian (Dutch & English) who don't much like Catholics or Orthodox with the rest being African Shamanism. Yeah sure that lot will be 100% cooperative considering chunks of their population believe the others are the spore of Satan and now they are inviting in BOTH Sunni and Shia Muslims to join. Yeah I can see this working out real good. Plus and this might be a huge bug. There's billions and billions of Chinese money invested in America as well as a lot of Russian Oligarch money hidden in places like Idaho which now has a banking system like Switzerland.
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