Close Donald Trump allies like Steve Bannon say "the president is pissed every time he looks at the BRICS de-dollarization effort". The US government fears the Global South's challenge to the exorbitant privilege of the dollar. Trump is trying to make an example out of Brazil, threatening high tariffs to punish Lula da Silva, who promotes a multipolar world and a new global reserve currency. Ben Norton explains.
As Trump threatens BRICS, it grows stronger, resisting US dollar and Western imperialism: Part 2
Topics
0:00 (CLIP) Trump: "The dollar is king"
0:17 Western imperialists fear BRICS
1:20 Trump threatens tariffs on BRICS
1:37 Dedollarization enrages Trump
3:21 (CLIP) Trump's angry rant against BRICS
4:43 Schrödinger's BRICS
5:24 US officials demonize BRICS
6:00 Non-Aligned Movement
7:18 US divide-and-conquer strategy
7:58 (CLIP) Trump: divide Russia and China
8:16 US empire is failing
9:00 Trump attacks Brazil
10:07 Brazilian President Lula da Silva
10:52 Jair Bolsonaro, Trump ally
11:26 Bolsonaro's failed coup attempt
12:07 Elon Musk meddles in Brazil
13:00 US-sponsored coups in Latin America
14:29 Elon Musk: "We will coup whoever we want"
15:27 US-backed coups in Brazil
18:01 Brazil pushes back against US meddling
19:52 Multipolarity
20:35 Dedollarization
21:08 Gold
22:30 US empire's main weapon: the dollar
24:06 Sanctions: economic warfare
24:53 BRICS develops alternatives
25:30 End of US dollar's exorbitant privilege
27:29 Why Trump is afraid
28:46 Outro
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