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Muammar Gaddafi tried to do this with the Pan-African Dinar. But he didn’t have nukes.


4 posted on 04/29/2022 2:34:43 PM PDT by packagingguy
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[Muammar Gaddafi tried to do this with the Pan-African Dinar. But he didn’t have nukes.]


This is basically the Soviet ruble redux. Official rate $2 per ruble. Foreign exchange controls. Black market rate for ordinary Russians who needed dollars? 100 rubles to buy a single greenback.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_ruble


6 posted on 04/29/2022 2:39:55 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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So we blew up his country which propagated a decade long civil war.
It’s okay for us to do that without repercussions, but Russia must pay for Ukraine.
The hypocrisy of Neocon foreign policy is endless.


12 posted on 04/29/2022 3:07:35 PM PDT by EEGator
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