US exceptionalists cannot accept that they have squandered their global exceptional privilege- but they have- they FAILED COMPLETELY to see China building its mercantile empire and now controlling most strategically important supply chains. The USA is fucked, with only its legacy hegemony over monetary protocols sustaining its hegemony in the near term- and China is building its alternatives and implementing them. Oil exporters are now receiving trade payments in Yuan via mBridge and CIPS and holding their wealth in gold, investments or Bitcoin, not USTs. USTs are worthless shitcoins and forcing stablecoin issuers to buy them is all that might buy the US empire time as it inevitably declines.