"Stop flogging this dead horse."
"The West is cutting off the branch it is sitting on." – #Lavrov "foreshadowed" the collapse of the dollar due to sanctions against #Russia.
"The dollar as the world's reserve currency has signed a verdict," he said during a speech at the Creating the Future science fiction symposium (a proper event to discuss issues like this).
According to #Lavrov, the dollar's collapse will be brought about by "the policy of sanctions that the West is applying, including against #Russia."
"The dollar, which for decades was advertised to us explicitly as the common property of all mankind, has been turned into a weapon of suppression and punishment of geopolitical competitors and simply the disobedient And the dollar was condemned as the world's reserve currency and means of international settlements," #Lavrov said.
Last year, he predicted "irreversible dedollarisation," The year before, he said the dollar was "shrinking," and in 2019, he claimed the #US. would "soon collapse" because of its sanctions policy.
According to statistics from the #SWIFT international payment system, the dollar's share in global trade in 2024 reached a 12-year high: in August, 49.07% of all transactions in the world took place in it.
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