No one holds onto USD more tightly than the wealthy of those BRICS nations. There's a difference in what these country's political leaders say for domestic consumption and what they do with their real wealth.

Since the founding of the U.S., history has been the continuous tendency of the world to expect the U.S. to stay down after being knocked out or forever flail about on rubbery legs.

The U.S. will get into a shooting war with China. The U.S. will get humiliated. After that?