• ComradeSalad
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    1 year ago

    Its a heavy double edged sword. Russia is heavily dependent on their resource extraction and export industry, and if other countries are hit hard by a financial crisis… then who will be able to pay for the resources Russia’s selling? And how?

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      1 year ago

      BRICS. The financial crisis will only affect dollars. These countries can trade in their national currencies. Later, they can streamline this trade with a common trade currency, that is only used for settling balances and cannot be spent in any domestic country (unlike the USD, which privileges Americans).