• Rowan Thorpe
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    1 year ago

    Are we really supposed to believe it was a threatening show of force to cow the entire world into throwing away profits and using our currency?

    I don’t think it was as much about “making an example of them” as it was about getting them back to accepting USD (and “recycling” those back into the US economy) ASAP. Installed Iraq administrations switched straight back to USD since the invasion.