"Sure, the dollar's decline is alarming, but fixating on BRICS ignores the real issue—decades of runaway spending and sanctions backfiring spectacularly. When central banks dump $34.7T worth of faith in your currency for gold, it’s not a conspiracy; it’s math."
(Example follow-up if pressed: "Look at the Fed’s own data—reserves dropped 13% in a decade while debt exploded. Sanctions didn’t ‘force’ Russia and China to build alternatives; they just exposed how fragile dollar dominance really was.")