Laughable. Obviously it's going to be a game of hot-potato. What country would truly be willing to hold the Rupee as a foreign reserve when it isn't really as useful as the U.S. Dollar in international trade? What CAN Saudi Arabia do with the Rupees it accepted? It's currently losing value against the Dollar.
Few refuse to understand that there are simply too many nations/states that are depending on the Dollar to succeed, including India and Saudi Arabia.
You are absolutely right. Let's illustrate it in images.
To dethrone the dollar, those who are trying to dethrone it would have to have a currency that is less bad than the dollar, and it does not appear that the Indian rupee or any of the currencies of the countries that are trying to dethrone it are.
The rate hikes, the tightening, and the restriction of swap lines are all causing a shortage of Dollars. If you check the current rate of growth of the Dollar, it's currently deflationary. What happens when there's a shortage of "a thing" that's currently in demand? Its value goes up. That's precisely what we are seeing in that chart.
This recent development should be troubling to the US but they are dismissing it as if nothing is happening. It is getting to a very critical point when they will lose total control. But even now I wonder what is it they can do. India and the UAE are both members of the BRICS. The process has started of replacing the dollar as the world reserve currency to multiple currencies.
Lol. How dumb are you? It's pretty damn evident that you have issues with the USA which is why you are stating such nonsensical stuff. Process of replacing the dollar? Extremely silly statement.
The dollar is actually growing stronger with time while the rupee is growing weaker. Think hard!
All fiat currencies weaken over time, some faster, some slower. If the rate of weakening of the fiat currency is not too fast, it is quite suitable for settlements for exported goods on one simple condition - if you intend to import goods or services for an equivalent amount. This is how bilateral currency swaps in national currencies work, which are practiced between BRICS member countries. The exchange rates of national currencies are temporarily frozen and a bilateral transaction takes place. If there is no significant imbalance in the trade balance between countries, then everything goes smoothly even without the participation of the dollar.
I will explain with an example. Let's say India wants to buy a million barrels of oil from the UAE and pay for them in Indian rupees. UAE Indian rupees are not particularly needed because it is not a freely convertible currency.
But India can offer goods or services for an equivalent amount in return. In fact, the transaction turns into a barter one, where fiat currencies are involved only for the convenience of mutual settlements, but are not used as a store of value. In particular, India can offer in return some medicines or outsourced programming services or something else.
That's actually going to be a very problematic situation for Saudi Arabia, if not a laughable one. Rupees used like mere tokens in an amusement park.
It would have been better if the BRICS nations agreed to use an apolitical, impartial, decentralized network/currency for their international trade needs. If only there was something like it invented, no?