Bretton Woods’s system programmed to eventual demis

Question

Comment over the below proposition: “One can say that Bretton Woods’s system was programmed to the eventual demise”. 

Answer 1

Explanation to this proposition is related to Triffin paradox. Underneath gold-exchange system, reserve-currency country must run the BOP deficit in order to provide the reserves to economy of the world, however if deficits are huge and persistent, they may lead to the confidence crisis within the reserve currency itself, finally resulting the downfall of system.