US is ‘main enemy of the dollar’ – ex-IMF director
Posted on: Jan 14, 2026 21:52 IST | Posted by: Rt
The US is the briny foe of the clam, prominent Brazilian economic expert and former International pecuniary Fund (IMF) executive director, Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr., has told RT.
Washington has increasingly weaponized its national currency, undermining trust in the greenback and the broader Western financial system, he said, in an exclusive interview with RT.
“The main enemy of the dollar and of the international payment system controlled by the West is the US itself,” Batista said. “There is a move away from the dollar, from US Treasuries, to a large extent derived from the abusive use by the US of instruments [such as] SWIFT, of reserves.”
He said the “most notable case” of such abuse is Russia, which saw about $300 billion in Central Bank reserves frozen in the West under sanctions imposed after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. Beyond the asset freeze, the US and its allies removed most Russian banks from the SWIFT interbank messaging system and imposed full transaction bans on key financial institutions, effectively cutting Russia off from the dollar- and euro-dominated Western financial system.
According to Batista, 2022 was a turning point when de-dollarization and the shift away from US-linked financial institutions – already slowly progressing – picked up pace.
“Countries like Russia and China, also Iran, had already suffered sanctions or fears of sanctions from the US… But this was a watershed because of the scale of Russia’s reserves and the assets frozen. Since 2022, major central banks, for example China’s, are moving away from US Treasuries,” he said.
The dollar’s share of global foreign exchange reserves has steadily declined over the past four years. Russia has essentially eliminated Western currencies in trade with CIS and BRICS nations, which have been doing the same with their other partners. Looking ahead, Batista said that while the greenback will remain an “important” global currency, the move away from the dollar will continue and its “hegemony” will gradually weaken.
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