[cookiemonsieur]

> Thankfully there are alternative currencies that can be used for that nowadays.

Iraq and Libya have tried, and look what's happened to them ...

The main reason countries are using the USD as the reserve currency is because if they don't, the "Free World TM" will bomb them back to the stone age.

[pjc50]

This argument has always struck me as silly to conspiracy theory. The EU has its own reserve currency!

[cookiemonsieur]

The current state of the aforementioned countries would prove otherwise, I'm afraid.

[pjc50]

But the missing link is the reserve currency question, rather than .. all the other disputes involved!