• Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      Their US dollars are just frozen in overseas bank accounts. It’s not that they don’t have them, they just don’t have access to them, mostly over sanctions imposed after the Ukraine invasion.

  • buzz86us@lemmy.worldEnglish
    382·
    2 years ago

    Yup China is funding them, but the Chinese don’t care about their war they are just slowly taking over Russia

    • wjrii@kbin.social
      241·
      2 years ago

      I mostly agree, but I’m sure the Chinese don’t mind seeing what happens when the West is faced with an ambivalent-to-hostile nuclear power, with deep commercial ties, going to war to press questionable territorial claims.

    • realitista@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      China’s just happy to get rid of more of its currency so it can keep more dollars in reserve.

    • BaardFigur@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Which is not necessarily a good thing. Fuck China as much as Russia

  • deft@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    305·
    2 years ago

    I love seeing this and the comments about BRICS lol

    Imagine being excited two kids are eating sand. That’s what you’re doing lol

    • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
      281·
      2 years ago

      No, you see, BRICS will adopt the blockchain and then we’ll all get a lot of money from the seekrit money fund that the (((globalists))) have been keeping from us! Q said so!

      (/s fwiw)

  • platypus_plumba@lemmy.worldEnglish
    133·
    2 years ago

    Sir, honestly, why would you send a page with a pay wall? Did you want me to only read the title?

      • realitista@lemmy.worldEnglish
        72·
        2 years ago

        Now that’s the idea we could have rolled with from the get-go.

      • platypus_plumba@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Does this work for all pages with a pay wall? Someone always tells me “duh, why didn’t you bypass it?” Then I try the tool they gave me on other page and it doesn’t work.

        That’s just my experience. I hate frontend code, so I usually fail when I go into the html components to remove stuff. Usually the logic is minimized and ain’t nobody got time for that

  • Digitalprimate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    2 years ago

    Yeah, no. Crude and coal are still 95% USD denominated, and that’s more than half Russia’s exports.

  • Zuberi 👀@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    334·
    2 years ago

    Along w/ massive purchases in gold, brics will have the world currency status sooner or later

    • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      292·
      2 years ago

      Brics doesn’t even have a centralised currency of any form lol.

      For it to have the world standard currency, the bunch of systemic competitors that make up brics (almost all of which have at least some major cause of friction with at least one of member) to:

      • agree on a name, design and production strategy that every single member is happy with
      • have a centralised bank somewhere that is controlled by some (presumably inter-state) entity
      • have all members adopt that currency as their primary currency, phasing out their existing state controlled ones
      • have the currency be more stable and commonly accepted than USD

      Only then can it even really begin to start being a world currency

      Frankly, I don’t think there’s nearly enough cooperation within the group to even start making steps toward a common currency for decades

      • realitista@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Yeah zero chance this happens in our lifetimes. They don’t have enough in common to pull something like this off. It took Europe half a century and they are all next door neighbors with roughly the same values.

      • platypus_plumba@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        2 years ago

        Why would they need to fully replace their local currency to trade with another currency?

        Is this something all countries that trade with dollars have done?

    • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Wow, you have it figured out. How much money have you converted into any of the BRICS currencies? It sounds like you would have quite the long term investment when those currencies appreciate due to increased demand.

    • Yewb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      2 years ago

      All of the brics countries right now can keep thier own world currency we need more local currencies im tired of this drive to welcome globalism from known fascist countries.

      • bramblepatchmystery@slrpnk.netEnglish
        13·
        2 years ago

        What exactly do you mean by globalism?

        Unfortunately, in the US, the term generally is used exclusively by the far right to reference rich Jews and the liberals who support them.

        I just want to clarify whether you are referencing that or a different usage of the term that may be more location specific to you.