BRICS member China is taking full advantage of the US sanctions on Russia by pushing the Chinese yuan for trade settlements. The US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen openly admitted that the sanctions are only helping local currencies and hurting the dollar. She revealed that it was the sanctions that led the BRICS alliance to consider de-dollarization and use local currencies for cross-border transactions.
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That’s mostly for the short term. Long term there are more interesting ideas in the pipeline. Some of which an accelerationist like myself can only appreciate.
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More ideas like this are needed to advance the Kardashev scale.
Lots of electricity will have to be generated in the future to advance to that stage. But by removing the option of war at will you incentivize the United States to peruse these accelerationist ideas instead of the current dispersion and rule by DC imperial bureaucrats.