Geopolitics
The Rubicon of Trust: How the West's Financial Weaponization Against Russia Accelerates the End of Dollar Hegemony
The EU is actively pushing to use frozen Russian central bank reserves, held primarily at Euroclear in Belgium, to fund Ukraine via a 'reparations loan' structure, testing the precedent of turning financial custodians into geopolitical weapons. This brazen act of financial warfare shatters the foundational trust in the Western-led international monetary system, proving that the US and its European vassals will weaponize any rule to maintain their hegemony while accelerating the Global South's flight from dollar and euro dependency.
