The United States ushered in a number of bad news, Biden's "weird" video flowed out, and Japan and Spain were dissatisfied with the United States

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Recently, due to the increasing international tension, the White House has received a lot of news, including many bad news. The first is that the United States has encountered two headaches for officials, one is about President Biden, and the other is directly pointing to the hegemony of the dollar.

Two days ago, US President Biden held a speech in North Carolina that lasted about 40 minutes, but after the speech, Biden suddenly turned to the right and reached out to shake hands, and the video of the scene showed that there was no one else on the stage at that time, and there was actually air next to Biden. And no one in the applauding crowd interacted with him, so the report described Biden's move as a "handshake with the air." What is even more surprising is that Biden did not leave immediately after the "handshake", but looked around for a week and stayed for about 8 seconds before slowly walking off the podium.

After the speech, the video spread rapidly on the Internet, and some people even matched it with "weird" music, which caused widespread discussion and speculation. It is worth noting that Biden is nearly 80 years old, he is the oldest president at the time of his inauguration, and the oldest incumbent president, so his body has always been the focus of media and public attention.

According to Article II of the U.S. Constitution, age is one of the limits for presidential candidates, but the problem is that the Constitution only sets a lower age limit, that is, 35 years old, to ensure that the president has sufficient experience to cope with complex domestic and international affairs, and does not set an upper age limit.

During the Biden administration, there were so many slips of the tongue that the public's impression of him continued to decline. Back last year, Biden was sceptically skeptical and attacked for his incoherent speech. Owens, founder and author of the "Black Break Away from the Democratic Party" movement, even claimed, "The president of the United States suffers from dementia." Moreover, the United States has also done a poll on this, and the results show that 50% of Americans are unsure whether Biden's physical and mental health is suitable for president.

Now, Biden has once again sent out a strange video of "shaking hands with the air", not to mention that the American people who see the video will once again be worried about the ability of the government, and even the European allies of the United States may be "calculating" in their hearts. Now that the United States and Europe are joining forces to sanction Russia, Every "unreliable" performance of Biden may make allies more distant from the United States.

The second problem in the United States, then, is that the dollar hegemony is slowly disintegrating. Recently, the United States has led the West to launch crazy financial sanctions against Russia. However, these sanctions did not force Russia to "yield", but had "side effects" on the dollar. Imagine how such terrible sanctions, when the United States and the West freeze a country's reserve assets of up to hundreds of billions of dollars, do not make people doubt the stability and reliability of the current international monetary and financial system and order? Countries around the world have now questioned "risk-free assets" such as reserve assets.

As we all know, the dollar has a "hegemonic" position in the world, but because the United States has repeatedly used this "convenience" to steal the world's wool, the status of the dollar is also slowly declining. In recent years, one of the big "hot words" in the world is de-dollarization. After the United States launched crazy sanctions against Russia, the process of "de-dollarization" of the international reserve currency pattern has further accelerated.

Simply put, it is the sanctions imposed by the United States and the West on Russia that have allowed countries around the world to discover the consequences of over-reliance on the dollar and the US financial system. U.S. President Joe Biden can freeze a large number of Russian assets with a wave of his hand, which has also made countries doubt whether their assets are safe. At the same time, Putin also ruthlessly attacked the hegemony of the us dollar, announcing that it would settle directly in rubles with "unfriendly countries" in the fields of energy and commodities, accelerating the trend of decoupling from the US dollar and the US and European financial systems in one fell swoop.

In fact, not only Russia, but also other countries have joined the ranks, such as India, which is studying the establishment of a "rupee-ruble" trade payment mechanism with Russia to bypass the US dollar. Saudi Arabia is also actively negotiating with China over the value of some of its oil sales to China in renminbi. It is worth noting that 17% of the bilateral trade between China and Russia has been settled in rmb, and the Russian-European conflict and Western sanctions on Russia will continue to promote the continuous increase in the rmb settlement and payment ratio, which may not be good news for the United States, because it means that the dominance of the US dollar in the global oil market will decline rapidly.

In addition, the financial sanctions imposed by the United States and the West on Russia have also made enterprises and financial institutions in Asia, Latin America and Africa nervous, and they are likely to reduce US dollar financing to reduce the risk of being "hunted" by the US and European governments. In other words, people are starting to stop trusting the dollar. Although the United States sanctioned Russia when it was "majestic", the consequences also made the United States more than worth the loss. Now more than 20 countries have built their own financial clearing systems, and this crisis has directly spawned the establishment of a new payment and settlement system for important energy trading countries, and once the new payment and settlement pattern takes shape, the impact on the hegemony of the US dollar is also very terrible.

In recent years, the US government has gone to great lengths to maintain its hegemony, and it has also targeted China and Russia. Suppressing Russia and encircling and suppressing China is now "self-defeating," but it has accelerated the collapse of hegemony. Just as the U.S. government is struggling with domestic problems, bad news is coming from U.S. allies.

The first is the "hardcore little brother" of the United States, Japan. As we all know, the Japanese government has always been very responsive to the call of the United States, but in fact, the Japanese people may not want to "follow" the United States. According to media news on April 14, this year coincides with the 50th anniversary of the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations, and hundreds of Japanese people held a rally in Tokyo to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations, calling on the government to practice the spirit of the Sino-Japanese Joint Statement and promote Japan-China friendly cooperation.

The organizers of the rally openly stated that China is Japan's neighbor with no water and water, and it is also Japan's largest trading partner, and the Japanese government should seize the opportunity of the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China and make every effort to promote Japan-China friendship and cooperation. It is worth noting that he also directly criticized the Japanese Government for frequently taking anti-China moves at the instigation of the United States, and held that such a practice is absolutely intolerable.

I have to say that Japan is behind the United States, not only sanctioning Russia, but also actively promoting the "Indo-Pacific strategy" of the United States against China, all kinds of behaviors are all in the eyes of the Japanese people, and it is time for the Japanese government to reflect on what benefits "anti-China" and "anti-Russia" are for Japan.

On the other hand, the Japanese people's move also proves that many people's impression of the United States is not too good, in fact, it should be known that the US military stationed in Japan has not caused "trouble" to the Japanese people, but the Japanese government cannot be the master, and has long made the people dissatisfied. In addition to Japan, another U.S. ally has also voiced discontent, and that is Spain, a member of the European Union.

Also on April 14, Spain's Foreign Ministry publicly expressed its dissatisfaction with the U.S. docking of nuclear submarines in Gibraltar waters and has lodged diplomatic protests with the United States. According to media reports, the previous day, the US nuclear-powered submarine "Georgia" arrived in Gibraltar waters, and the Spanish Foreign Ministry claimed that it did not know the reason for the docking of the nuclear submarine and the duration of the submarine. It is worth noting that the waters of Gibraltar actually belong to the United Kingdom, and it is reasonable to say that the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has no right to prevent the United States from docking nuclear submarines in the waters, but even so, it has triggered protests by Spanish environmental groups and uneasiness among nearby residents.

Not long ago, Australian Prime Minister Morrison announced in a high profile before the general election that Australia plans to build a nuclear submarine fleet with the assistance of the United States and britain, and also to build a nuclear submarine base on the east coast of Australia. But the United States has turned a blind eye to this and is still strongly supporting Australia. This makes people wonder why the United States is so "helping" the Australian side? In fact, clear-eyed people can see that the US move is targeting China.

Australian Prime Minister Morrison vowed to emphasize that the Australian side will spend 38 billion Australian dollars on military expansion, and Australian media commented that China's military construction is one of the main reasons for Australia's increase in defense expenditure.

It is also worth noting that the US government recently announced the defense budget for 2023, which reached a "sky-high price" of 813.3 billion US dollars, which is simply eye-popping. Among these defense budgets, nuclear weapons budgets are still the highest in the calendar year, and because the United States has a huge nuclear arsenal, the development of nuclear weapons is mainly reflected in the upgrading and modernization of command and control systems.

All of this is actually the embodiment of the United States' military prowess. As we all know, military strength is an important pillar of US global hegemony, since the end of World War II, the United States has maintained a large-scale overseas military presence, relying on huge military strength to safeguard its own interests, but the US government must wake up to the fact that whether it is huge military expenditure or frequent overseas military operations, it will eventually bring only turmoil in the world situation. I also hope that these signals can remind the Biden administration that blindly engaging in gangs and confrontation will only make its own status decline, and gradually decline in the opposition and dissatisfaction of countries around the world. This is the end of this episode, we will see you in the next issue!