US making ‘big mistake’ by weaponizing dollar – Putin

Alex Graur

The greenback is only weakened by its politicization, the Russian president has said at the BRICS Summit Weaponizing the US dollar is a big mistake, Russian President Vladimir Putin told a session at the BRICS Summit in Kazan on Wednesday. He made the remark following a harsh assessment on the currency's use as a political tool by the New Development Bank’s (NDB) president, Dilma Rousseff. According to Rousseff, the global geopolitics is being adversely affected by the use of the US dollar “as