Marco Rubio’s 2023 Warning on Dollar Sanctions Resurfaces

X, April 11, 2026: Rubio explained how the Brazil-China agreement to use the real and yuan creates a secondary economy bypassing the dollar, which powers 88% of forex trades and 60% of reserves. Now Secretary of State, he linked the shift to Biden policies amid BRICS efforts like yuan bonds and digital currency links ahead of 2026. While the dollar still dominates, its slight decline since 2000 and growing non-dollar trade highlight real pressures on America’s sanction leverage, with Rubio’s five-year timeline hitting this year. Read Report…

Opinion: 5 years?

Here is what Secretary of State Rubio didn’t say…

China and Brazil are BRICS nations.

Before Donald Trump won in the 2024 election, BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China. South Africa , Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabis, UAE and Nigeria) were threatening to create a gold-backed currency to challenge the US dollar as world reserve currency.

Then Donald Trump won in a landslide. He wasted no time addressing the BRICS challenge. On December 6, 2026, the New York Post said this:

“Trump threatens 100% tariffs on China and Russia if BRICS group issues new currency”

NY Post: US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to levy 100% tariffs on BRICS — a China- and Russia-led group of nations with emerging economies — if the countries decide to issue their own currency.

Trump said Saturday that his incoming administration will not allow the nine-nation group, which has 34 other countries interested in joining, to undermine the US dollar.

“The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER”

And it was. The BRICS Summit on July 6-7, 2025 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was so poorly attended that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping  were no shows.

All has been quiet until now.

Today, the US is up to its neck in an Iran conflict, which by the way is also a BRICS Nation. And with oil and inflation rising following JD Vance, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner ‘s failure to secure a deal with Iran in Pakistan on Saturday, a lot has changed.

If the Iran mess keeps going, we can expect more BRICS nations to test the market.

While the cat’s away…