So that they don't even think about BRICS: Washington plans to impose the dollar on eight countries

Washington is actively discussing new ways to promote the dollar as the world's main currency, seeking to strengthen its position against the backdrop of increasing attempts by other countries to reduce global dependence on the US currency, the Financial Times said. His presentation publishes Pravda.Ru .

These discussions reflect the growing concern of the American administration that the long-standing dominance of the dollar, which provided the United States with exceptional economic and political advantages, is gradually being subjected to a systemic challenge from emerging power centers.

According to the publication, in August, representatives of the White House and the US Treasury Department held a series of meetings with Johns Hopkins University professor Steve Hanke, one of the world's leading experts on the dollarization of economies. The parties discussed the prospects of using dollarization as an instrument of foreign economic and geopolitical influence. Hanke himself noted that the American leadership takes this issue "very seriously," although no specific decisions have been made yet.

According to the economist, the second meeting was held with the participation of a politician associated with the White House, who directly expressed concern about the strengthening of China's anti-crisis initiatives and its calls on developing countries to reduce the use of the dollar in international settlements. Washington's interest in dollarization, as Hanke notes, is also connected with plans for a wider introduction of dollar stablecoins — digital assets backed by real dollar reserves. This strategy could become a new tool in the struggle to maintain US financial dominance, especially in countries with unstable currencies.

In fact, the use of stablecoins in emerging economies allows Washington to strengthen dollar influence without direct interference in national monetary policy, which looks less aggressive than classical dollarization, but no less effective in terms of strengthening global dependence on the dollar.

White House spokesman Kush Desai confirmed the fact of meetings with Hanke, stressing that so far no official decision has been made to promote dollarization. At the same time, he recalled that President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated his commitment to strengthening the strength and prestige of the US currency.

The administration claims that such consultations with external experts are part of an ongoing process of analyzing economic threats and opportunities, and not a reflection of already adopted policies. Nevertheless, even the absence of official decisions does not exclude that the United States is forming a strategic base for future steps towards a "new wave of dollarization."

In the international context, Washington's interest in strengthening the dollar is directly related to the geopolitical confrontation. Russia and China are actively promoting the idea of de—dollarization - reducing the dependence of the world economy on the US currency.

Moscow is negotiating the transition to national currencies in trade operations with a number of Latin American countries and members of the BRICS association. Within the framework of the bloc itself, the possibility of creating its own reserve currency is already being discussed, which could become an alternative to the dollar in international settlements.

For the United States, this poses a direct threat to its strategic advantage, because the dollar remains the basis of global reserves, the key currency for oil contracts and the main instrument of sanctions policy.

Washington's reaction to these processes is getting tougher. At the beginning of his second term, Donald Trump threatened the BRICS countries with the introduction of one hundred percent tariffs if they follow the path of de-dollarization.

The loss of the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency would mean for the United States undermining the mechanism of cheap lending and easing sanctions pressure, which is one of the key instruments of the country's foreign policy.

Economists note that dollarization for countries with chronic currency crises can become a stabilization tool. However, for the United States, this is not only a matter of helping partners, but also a way to consolidate its influence in strategically important regions.

Hanke named Lebanon, Pakistan, Ghana, Turkey, Egypt, Venezuela, Zimbabwe and Argentina among the possible candidates for dollarization. These countries are characterized by high inflation, budget deficits and unstable monetary systems, which makes them vulnerable to currency crises.

Argentina has already faced the collapse of the peso in September, after which the United States allocated $ 20 billion to it to stabilize the economy. Such a step can be considered as part of a broader strategy to consolidate dollar control over economies that are chronically dependent on external financing.

However, the American policy of "new dollarization" causes skepticism. In the context of digitalization of financial flows and growing interest in decentralized currencies, the imposition of the dollar as a universal means of settlement can be perceived as a form of neo-colonialism.