In this scenario, other currencies become less sought after, the dollar more powerful. It is the ultimate expression of U.S. hegemony, and, for other governments, undermines their nation-state sovereignty.

And just as Americans have forgotten that it is oil that chose the USD as reserve, your American politicians have forgotten that if oil chose the USD as the world’s oil monopoly reserve currency, there is no theoretical reason why oil could not “un-choose” the USD.