[lazide]

I remember when everyone said the Euro was the new reserve currency - even a Bond film used it as a plot point.

Came to nothing.

[2muchcoffeeman]

But things can change no? Like the country whose currency we use becoming untrustworthy. Do you think the world watched the first trump presidency and thought to do nothing?

[radicalbyte]

It was US policy to actively work against that and it was an acceptable deal for us given that we've been friends and allies forever. Now Trump has turned the US into our heroin-addict sibling we can no longer rely on them.

[lazide]

So they’re going to…. Be nicer now? Less crazy?

[EasyMark]

But at that point in time the USA wasn't run by a clown show of grifting circus performers.