effectively been the currency of the world for our entire lifetimes. there was virtually no place in the entire globe you could go that would turn down a 20. andrew jackson s face beside the famous seal of the u.s.as treasury was probably america s best known expor best. from dar es to sri lankapost in to the smallest gold mining outpost, the amazon basin. every shopkeeper on earthco recognizgnizede a twenty dollar bill . the dollar wa.s universal and not just universal.ct inio commerce, though,ns tha the majority of international wered iny held ae conducte dollars, but universally held as a long term store of value. globally, the world s central bank stockpiled us dollars far more than any other currency. now,e ot most americans may not have known that or they did,wary but it doesn t matter what goo they knew. it it wasd very good fore arr everyone who lives here because there were so many us dollars cu in circulation outside ofborrow the country. the cost of borrowi
the ground and into the water, josh shapiro, the governor of pennsylvania, held a press conferences about it. shapiro announced that authorities had decided to set thoso announ e chemicals on fire. goo and that was a very good thing.e no one should be unduly alarmed . the burning ohemicaf theslse chemicals, shapiro said, had gone, quote,e, as planned. whil, officials on the scene, meanwhile, declared the burn dquote, perfect.ohio a gr mike dewine, the governor f ohio, agreed with all of this. the people in charge, the railroads, engineers and the state official engineesd overseeing them had everythinger under control. so two days later,tw evacuation orders for residents were officially lifted, both in east palestine over the border in pennsylvania. iorders were link subsequent days, a lot of people have wondered out loud, was it really a wisewondered den to light thousands of gallons of vinyl chloride on fire, releasing a world war one era bioweapon into the air over
it knows. it saythe s unmanned drone was harassed and damaged by two russian fighter jets ove over w international waters.. it s all we have. we s all we have. we re going have to take re e their word for it. everybody else seems to be. lierybody else seems to be. lindsey graham didn t ask many penetrating questions. no, he moved immediately, seized the opportunity to demanthat thed the pentagon k the russian air force.here he here he is . what we should hold them accountable and say that if you t nearever get near another upsa flying in international watersl. your airplane would be shot down.ld what would ronald reagan do right now? ronalhe would he would startn e shooting russian planes down if they were threateninreg our assets. what would ronald reagan do? good quewould ronald reagan do? oh, good. senator graham. ronald r. senator graham. question. senator graham, ronald reagan s two term presidency was notablen for the fact that he did not declare war on the russian
them strictly speaking, to do with them or with america that effort began many years earlier. winnipegger to july twenty second, 2016. that s the day that wikileaks published thousands of emailsrso from the servers ofe the democratic national committee in washington. democratl commit those emailst party officials had rigged the democratic process,s, the primary process in favor of hillary clinton and againstrgen the insurgent populist candidate. that year, bernie sanders ofpo vermont. within days, the chair of the dnc, debbie wasserman schultz,he chair resigned in di the wikileaks scandal brokee win the same day that hillary clinton shows her on the same day that hillary clinton chose her running mate, senator tim kaine, in ang overshadowmar tim kaand it the g convention that followed. but more significantlyed.,s scan the wikileaks scandal threatened to split the democratic party into piecesdait the d. more than 13 million bernie the ers voters, many young people learned tha
fe s reacting against what h we feels inside, which is the steady loss of his power as a man. the faster thatthe faster poa recedes, the more franticallys he asserts it. .e is raging against the dying of the light. the ligt these last embarrassing decisions are, in fact, hisroes. death throes. it s sad, really. it is reallunfortunately, whatt fo men also tends to happen to the systems they create. for the last 80 years, our world has been governe0 d by a system formed in the final months of world war two. its features.tures de define oue free and open global trade routes guaranteed by the g us navy, a universal currency called the dollarreme and overseeing it all p one supreme power, the world s largest economy, the united states of america.system it s been a great system in most ways, but for manyg th reasons, including the passage of time thate system is dying. what comes next is not entirely clear , but how to influence it to america s greatest possible advantage. gr