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What did Nicholas the Czar order that was nearly as bad?

Crazy is profitable

Bretton Woods was killed by Nixon in the early 1970s and replaced by the petro-dollar and as a result the USD as the global reserve currency. The existing system is the dollar as a gold stand in. Some call it 'Bretton Woods II', but that's not really accurate.

Given the ideological purge that has been done of the US military I question the capabilities it has to actually win a semi-peer level conflict at this point. It is good enough to beat up 3rd world militaries and insurgents...sort of, but having the US army be willing to fight and die like the...

It would be working if the wealth and income were distributed more rationally. Instead the billionaires have sucked up the gains and became so greedy that they'd effectively stolen even more from the general public through government policies. They have beggared the country to make themselves...

I did mention it, just not by name. There was a pretty big drop off in production in the 1970s-90s before fracking tech caught up and oil prices reached the necessary level.

Respectfully disagree; the only tool the US has left to maintain its broken global economic system is the petro-dollar. The Bush invasions were about trying to control the global oil supply so the US could dictate to China, which needs massive amounts of oil to function, what the global rules...