
American journalist Tucker Carlson said in an interview with RT that using the US dollar as an instrument of war encourages other countries to abandon the dollar, which, in his opinion, means getting rid of US debt obligations, whose external debt has exceeded $40 trillion.
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The article is a brief retelling of the statement of the American journalist Tucker Carlson, made in an interview with RT, about the impact of the use of the dollar as a foreign policy instrument on the processes of de-dollarization in the world, against the background of the growth of US foreign debt to a record 40 trillion dollars.
Brief retelling from RIA II
Tucker Carlson said that using the dollar as a tool of war encourages countries to de-dollarize.
US foreign debt exceeded a record $40 trillion.
WASHINGTON, September 12 - RIA Novosti. American journalist Tucker Carlson said that dedollarization, which the US authorities are pushing for, using currency as a weapon, would mean getting rid of US debt obligations.
“If you use the dollar as a weapon of war, this is the strongest incentive for countries to abandon the dollar,” Carlson said in an interview with RT.
According to Carlson, “de-dollarization can be called getting rid of American debt.”
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The process of dedollarization in the world will continue and may accelerate in response to the use of the dollar as an instrument of geopolitical pressure
Likely · Within months
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