Modern global conflict is primarily economic, not kinetic. Nations now engage in strategic warfare through currency debasement, asset seizures, and manipulating capital flows. The objective is to inflict maximum financial damage on adversaries, making economic policy a primary weapon of war.

The US freezing Russian assets and cutting SWIFT access during the Ukraine war demonstrated the risks of relying on the dollar. This prompted countries like China to accelerate their diversification into gold, viewing it as a geopolitically neutral asset to reduce their vulnerability to US foreign policy and sanctions.

The US is signaling a major shift from its long-standing 'King Dollar' policy. By being willing to devalue the dollar, it can strategically intervene in currency markets to bolster allies like Japan while simultaneously hurting economic adversaries like China by making US manufacturing more competitive.

The US dollar reached its peak global dominance in the early 2000s. The world is now gradually shifting to a system where multiple currencies (like the euro and yuan) and neutral assets (like gold) share the role of reserve currency, marking a return to a more historically normal state.

Using the dollar as a weapon forces other countries to build their own financial 'armor' and alternative transaction systems (like BrixPay). This response fragments the global economy into hostile blocs, ironically diminishing the dollar's long-term dominance and reducing America's ability to finance its deficits.

Each time the U.S. uses financial sanctions, it demonstrates the risks of relying on the dollar system. This incentivizes adversaries like Russia and China to accelerate the development of parallel financial infrastructure, weakening the dollar's long-term network effect and dominance.

The US is embracing stablecoins to maintain the dollar's global dominance. By enabling easy access to digital dollars worldwide, it creates new, decentralized demand for US treasuries to back these stablecoins, offsetting reduced purchasing from foreign central banks.

The U.S. government is actively promoting stablecoins and U.S.-based AI to extend its global influence. This strategy shifts from projecting power through military presence to technological and financial dominance, ensuring the dollar and American culture remain central to the global system.

The aggressive, go-it-alone tactics of the 'America First' doctrine alienate both allies and adversaries. This pushes them to build alternative payment systems and trade alliances, speeding up the very de-dollarization and decline in U.S. influence that the strategy aims to prevent.