Trump's words have zero predictive or factual value. Assign them a credibility score of null. Our only defense is radical skepticism. Treat every claim as fiction until independently, verifiably proven otherwise. In an age of weaponized misinformation, the most subversive act is to demand proof and to remember what he said yesterday.
How many of you realize that it is the decentralization of drone guidance and missile guidance technology that has stripped away America's naval hegemony that allowed it to project power in an uncontested manner in order to force the nations of the world to use the U.S. dollar for trade?
Now that drone and missile tech is widespread, decentralized and inexpensive, the entire U.S. naval posture is obsolete, and a country like Yemen can command an entire sea (and, effectively, the Suez Canal).
Distributed technology, in other words, has made the dollar's kinetic enforcement arm obsolete. And with that, the dollar will be increasingly abandoned in world trade.