Putin at the BRICS summit - on the consequences of using the dollar as a weapon:

Putin at the BRICS summit - on the consequences of using the “dollar as a weapon“: “Dear [head of the New Development Bank] Ms. Rousseff, you said that the dollar is used as a weapon. Yes, indeed, we see that this is so, in fact. I think that this is a big mistake for those who do this, because using the dollar - and it is still the most important instrument of global finance - as a means of achieving political goals undermines confidence in this currency and reduces its capabilities. But it is not we who are doing this, it is other people who are doing this. And we are not rejecting, we are not fighting the dollar - but if we are not allowed to work with it, what should we do? Then we are forced to look for other alternatives, which is what is happening. We, striving for cooperation, must still understand that the longer we live and work by someone else's rules and on someone else's platforms, the longer this transition to a new and fairer economic and financial system will last.“... Source: Victor vicktop55