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The Kremlin said that any US attempts to force other countries to use the dollar would backfire after US President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on all BRICS countries if they created their own currency, Reuters reported.

Yesterday, Trump called on the member countries of the BRICS group not to create a new currency and not to support any other currency that could replace the dollar in international trade. Trump warned that if he did not do so, he might impose 100 percent tariffs.

BRIC was created after a meeting of the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China in St. Petersburg in 2006. Four years later, it was agreed that the Republic of South Africa would join the formula, renamed BRICS. Since then, other countries have joined this format. They have long discussed the issue of replacing the dollar, but this discussion gained momentum after the West imposed sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine.

“More and more countries are turning to using national currencies in their trade and foreign economic activity,” Peskov said today in response to a journalist’s question about Trump’s statement. Peskov predicted that if Washington resorts to “economic force” to force the BRICS countries to use the dollar, it will have the opposite effect. The Kremlin spokesman said that “this will only strengthen the trend towards the transition to national currencies” in international trade. Peskov said: “The dollar has begun to lose its appeal as a reserve currency for a number of countries.” He also commented on other topics on the international agenda.

In response to a question about today’s visit of German Chancellor Olaf Schulz to Kiev, Peskov said, quoted by TASS: “Germany continues the course of unconditional support for Ukraine. At the same time, we can recall with satisfaction that the first contact The dialogue took place not so long ago between President “It is, of course, always a positive phenomenon.” On November 15, Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Schulz and they discussed the situation in Ukraine. The Kremlin spokesman indicated that Putin did not transmit any messages to the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, through the German Chancellor.

Peskov linked the protests that swept Georgia over the government’s decision to freeze EU membership talks to the Maidan in Ukraine in 2014. “We have witnessed similar events in a number of countries. The most direct parallel that can be drawn is the Maidan events,” he said. “In Ukraine,” Peskov said. According to him, the events in Georgia bear “every indication of an attempt to carry out an Orange Revolution.” Regarding the situation in Syria and the escalation of violence after the sudden attack by jihadist groups that began last week, Peskov said: “Of course we continue to support President Bashar al-Assad,” adding that Russia is continuing its contacts with the government in Damascus and is analyzing the situation.