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🇺🇸🇨🇳 The main function of the petrodollar might be to keep China under U.S. control. Luke Gromen breaks down what Russia, Venezuela, and Iran share in common: they all sell oil to China in yuan, and that threatens everything. "If you can reconvert all oil back to dollars, it's... show more

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🇨🇳 INTERVIEW: “CHINA FOUND A WAY TO BUY OIL WITHOUT USING DOLLARS” Luke Gromen, Macroeconomic Strategist “As China imports more oil at higher prices, it faces the risk of running out of dollars. That could trigger a late-1990s-style Asian currency crisis, forcing them to devalue the yuan and suffer high inflation and falling living standards. To avoid that, China created a workaround. For more than a decade, they’ve built offshore yuan clearing banks and convinced oil exporters to sell in yuan instead of dollars. Russia agreed because China allows those yuan surpluses to be settled in physical gold. It’s simple: Russia sells oil, gets paid in yuan, buys Chinese goods with some of it, and converts the rest into gold. Nobody may fully trust Beijing, but everyone trusts gold.”

🇨🇳 INTERVIEW: “CHINA FOUND A WAY TO BUY OIL WITHOUT USING DOLLARS” Luke Gromen, Macroeconomic Strategist “As China imports more oil at higher prices, it faces the risk of running out of dollars. That could trigger a late-1990s-style Asian currency crisis, forcing them to devalue the yuan and suffer high inflation and falling living standards. To avoid that, China created a workaround. For more than a decade, they’ve built offshore yuan clearing banks and convinced oil exporters to sell in yuan instead of dollars. Russia agreed because China allows those yuan surpluses to be settled in physical gold. It’s simple: Russia sells oil, gets paid in yuan, buys Chinese goods with some of it, and converts the rest into gold. Nobody may fully trust Beijing, but everyone trusts gold.”

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 China has been quietly breaking free from the dollar system for over a decade, and even most in finance missed every sign it was happening. Luke Gromen traces it all back, from the Shanghai Gold Exchange in 2014 to the yuan oil contract in 2018 to record trade surpluses that keep growing even as the yuan strengthens. "China and Russia looked at that, and said 'we've got to get out of the dollar system. We have to create an alternative, otherwise any war that started would be over day one.'" The footprints are in the markets. Most just don't know what to look for. Luke Gromen

🇺🇸🇨🇳 China has been quietly breaking free from the dollar system for over a decade, and even most in finance missed every sign it was happening. Luke Gromen traces it all back, from the Shanghai Gold Exchange in 2014 to the yuan oil contract in 2018 to record trade surpluses that keep growing even as the yuan strengthens. "China and Russia looked at that, and said 'we've got to get out of the dollar system. We have to create an alternative, otherwise any war that started would be over day one.'" The footprints are in the markets. Most just don't know what to look for. Luke Gromen

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 One war, and the entire dollar-based energy order is being stress-tested at once. Luke Gromen explained how China can rely on months of stockpiled oil reserves, while Europe, Australia, and much of Asia would run short far sooner, and why the UAE floating yuan-based oil pricing is such a critical warning sign. "Unless you weaken the dollar, we're going to keep switching to Chinese yuan." Iran has escalation dominance. Time is on their side. And China hasn't lost a thing just watching. Luke Gromen

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Mario Nawfal

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 THE U.S WANTED TO WEAKEN CHINA AND RUSSIA. IT ACHIEVED THE OPPOSITE Ex-CIA Larry Johnson says Iran is now letting only ships that pay in Chinese yuan pass through the Strait. Every barrel sold in yuan accelerates the death of the petrodollar. China gets cheap oil. Iran gets weapons and drone materials. Russia gets record oil prices. The U.S went to war to contain China. China is now the biggest beneficiary. "What the U.S and Israel did on February 28th was launch an unprovoked war of aggression."

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🚨🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Geopolitics commentator Cyrus Janssen just dismantled the "this is really about China" narrative live on air. The U.S. took down Venezuela to stop China accessing their oil. Except China is still buying Venezuelan oil. The only thing that changed the money now goes to the United States instead of Venezuela. "China has options. They are the largest trading partner to over 120 countries." Weakening Iran doesn't weaken China. There is only one winner in this war. And it's not America. Cyrus Janssen

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Mark Levin and Maria Bartiromo admit the United States will be seizing Iran’s oil supply and that gas and oil prices will come back down, similar to what was done in Venezuela. They claim President Trump just outmaneuvered China so that the United States can no longer be held hostage in the long run. “Think about where your next barrel of oil is coming from.”

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BREAKING: 🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia and China just eliminated the U.S. dollar from their trade. Not reducing. Not limiting. Eliminating. Completely. The two largest challengers to U.S. dominance. Now trading entirely outside the dollar system. Iran: Yuan at Hormuz tolls. Saudi Arabia: switching to Yuan for oil. Russia: Yuan and Rubles for European energy. Now Russia and China: no dollars. Ever. The petrodollar is losing pillars from every direction.

BREAKING: 🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia and China just eliminated the U.S. dollar from their trade. Not reducing. Not limiting. Eliminating. Completely. The two largest challengers to U.S. dominance. Now trading entirely outside the dollar system. Iran: Yuan at Hormuz tolls. Saudi Arabia: switching to Yuan for oil. Russia: Yuan and Rubles for European energy. Now Russia and China: no dollars. Ever. The petrodollar is losing pillars from every direction.

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SEC RUBIO: 🇺🇸🇻🇪🇨🇳 We don't need Venezuela's oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States. What we're not going to allow is for the oil industry in Venezuela to be controlled by adversaries of the United States. You have to understand, why does China need their oil? Why does Russia need their oil? Why does Iran need their oil? They're not even in this continent. This is the Western Hemisphere. This is where we live. We're not going to allow the Western Hemisphere to be a base of operation for adversaries, competitors and rivals of the United States.

SEC RUBIO: 🇺🇸🇻🇪🇨🇳 We don't need Venezuela's oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States. What we're not going to allow is for the oil industry in Venezuela to be controlled by adversaries of the United States. You have to understand, why does China need their oil? Why does Russia need their oil? Why does Iran need their oil? They're not even in this continent. This is the Western Hemisphere. This is where we live. We're not going to allow the Western Hemisphere to be a base of operation for adversaries, competitors and rivals of the United States.

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China is not what you think it is. China was created by America. In 1971 Nixon removed the dollar from the gold standard. The dollar was now worth nothing. So he needed to create demand for it. Two new hallucinations. The petrodollar — oil only sold in US dollars. And China — the world's factory, paid in US dollars. China didn't rise because of communism. China didn't rise because of hard work. China rose because America needed somewhere to park its dollars. China is a hallucination of a hallucination. And here is the problem with that. If the original hallucination becomes unstable — China becomes twice as unstable. Because it has nothing real to stand on. That is why China and America will always need each other. The dream only works if both keep dreaming it.

China is not what you think it is. China was created by America. In 1971 Nixon removed the dollar from the gold standard. The dollar was now worth nothing. So he needed to create demand for it. Two new hallucinations. The petrodollar — oil only sold in US dollars. And China — the world's factory, paid in US dollars. China didn't rise because of communism. China didn't rise because of hard work. China rose because America needed somewhere to park its dollars. China is a hallucination of a hallucination. And here is the problem with that. If the original hallucination becomes unstable — China becomes twice as unstable. Because it has nothing real to stand on. That is why China and America will always need each other. The dream only works if both keep dreaming it.

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Q: China, Russia, and Iran have interests in Venezuela. How does this operation affect your relationships with them? TRUMP: In terms of other countries that want oil, we're in the oil business. We're gonna sell it to them. We'll be selling oil.

Q: China, Russia, and Iran have interests in Venezuela. How does this operation affect your relationships with them? TRUMP: In terms of other countries that want oil, we're in the oil business. We're gonna sell it to them. We'll be selling oil.

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Now that President Trump has declared that the US is in control of Venezuela and that the US plans on taking back the oil, it makes zero sense for there to still be sanctions on Venezuela under the Trump administration. The sanctions were imposed by the Trump administration in addition to an oil embargo and sanctions on entities involved in Venezuela's oil and gold industries, including "shadow fleet" tankers evading sanctions, because of Maduro’s behavior. Now that Maduro Nicolás Maduro has been captured, the Trump administration should immediately lift sanctions on Venezuela and restore all of the oil licenses to American energy executives and American oil companies. Why would you want to have sanctions on a country you yourself control when you could just re issue the oil licenses to Americans and retake the 1 million barrels of oil per day that are being exported to China from Venezuela? China shouldn’t be getting that oil. It should all be going to the United States. It’s time for America to neutralize Russia, Iran and China’s access to oil in the Western Hemisphere and assert energy dominance in Venezuela. Hopefully, we see the Trump administration reissue the oil licenses to American oil companies who have infrastructure in Venezuela. Maduro is out. Let’s make 2026 the year America controls the largest oil, rare earth minerals and gold reserves in the world. Cc: President Donald J. Trump Marco Rubio Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

Now that President Trump has declared that the US is in control of Venezuela and that the US plans on taking back the oil, it makes zero sense for there to still be sanctions on Venezuela under the Trump administration. The sanctions were imposed by the Trump administration in addition to an oil embargo and sanctions on entities involved in Venezuela's oil and gold industries, including "shadow fleet" tankers evading sanctions, because of Maduro’s behavior. Now that Maduro Nicolás Maduro has been captured, the Trump administration should immediately lift sanctions on Venezuela and restore all of the oil licenses to American energy executives and American oil companies. Why would you want to have sanctions on a country you yourself control when you could just re issue the oil licenses to Americans and retake the 1 million barrels of oil per day that are being exported to China from Venezuela? China shouldn’t be getting that oil. It should all be going to the United States. It’s time for America to neutralize Russia, Iran and China’s access to oil in the Western Hemisphere and assert energy dominance in Venezuela. Hopefully, we see the Trump administration reissue the oil licenses to American oil companies who have infrastructure in Venezuela. Maduro is out. Let’s make 2026 the year America controls the largest oil, rare earth minerals and gold reserves in the world. Cc: President Donald J. Trump Marco Rubio Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

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577,828 views • 7 months ago

Governments don't want you to learn history, because they literally repeat it. What happened in the 1970s is happening again, but this time instead of a 4% reduction in oil it's 20%. The U.S. is intentionally blowing up refineries in Russia & Australia, pipelines to Europe, capturing Venezuela so additional oil supply can't come online. The goal is to starve China and the world of oil, collapsing industrial capacity outside of the U.S. and sucking all of the Dollars in circulation back into the U.S. The U.S. doesn't care how bad the economy gets, as long as it's worse everywhere else.

Governments don't want you to learn history, because they literally repeat it. What happened in the 1970s is happening again, but this time instead of a 4% reduction in oil it's 20%. The U.S. is intentionally blowing up refineries in Russia & Australia, pipelines to Europe, capturing Venezuela so additional oil supply can't come online. The goal is to starve China and the world of oil, collapsing industrial capacity outside of the U.S. and sucking all of the Dollars in circulation back into the U.S. The U.S. doesn't care how bad the economy gets, as long as it's worse everywhere else.

Financelot

823,715 views • 4 months ago

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Jeffrey Sachs: The United States is, drunk with arrogance right now. It has invaded Venezuela. It thinks it's about to invade Cuba. It has now, attacked Iran. The United States cares nothing about the Iranian people, but the United States cares about the oil, and it cares about the military control over the Middle East, and it cares about the fact that Iransells oil to China. Because part of what's happening United States is trying to put a chokehold on oil that flows to China, whether from Venezuela or from the Middle East, or from Russia, which the US has sanctioned. And so this is, part of a game. The American leaders do not care about the people, not about the American people or about other people. They care about power, and that's what they're after.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Jeffrey Sachs: The United States is, drunk with arrogance right now. It has invaded Venezuela. It thinks it's about to invade Cuba. It has now, attacked Iran. The United States cares nothing about the Iranian people, but the United States cares about the oil, and it cares about the military control over the Middle East, and it cares about the fact that Iransells oil to China. Because part of what's happening United States is trying to put a chokehold on oil that flows to China, whether from Venezuela or from the Middle East, or from Russia, which the US has sanctioned. And so this is, part of a game. The American leaders do not care about the people, not about the American people or about other people. They care about power, and that's what they're after.

THE ISLANDER

15,012 views • 5 months ago

🚨WAR ON IRAN IS PART OF THE PLAN AGAINST CHINA🇨🇳 ‘I think there’s a more serious plan which is to make it impossible for Iran as a sovereign state to negotiate and sell oil and gas directly to China.’ ‘The US would like to be the power that determines to whom energy is sold and under what conditions. It’s part of their big plan to surround and lay siege to China…they are concerned and worried about the development of China as a major economic power and they want to control it. So in my opinion, the threats against Iran are more to do with that than anything else.’ -Tariq Ali on Going Underground

🚨WAR ON IRAN IS PART OF THE PLAN AGAINST CHINA🇨🇳 ‘I think there’s a more serious plan which is to make it impossible for Iran as a sovereign state to negotiate and sell oil and gas directly to China.’ ‘The US would like to be the power that determines to whom energy is sold and under what conditions. It’s part of their big plan to surround and lay siege to China…they are concerned and worried about the development of China as a major economic power and they want to control it. So in my opinion, the threats against Iran are more to do with that than anything else.’ -Tariq Ali on Going Underground

Afshin Rattansi

95,077 views • 5 months ago

The Zionist cover story about fighting China and Russia was all a lie "China and Russia? Uh well, Russia, when we get things straightened out, but in terms of other countries that want oil, we're in the oil business. We're going to sell it to em" But now Singer gets the profits

The Zionist cover story about fighting China and Russia was all a lie "China and Russia? Uh well, Russia, when we get things straightened out, but in terms of other countries that want oil, we're in the oil business. We're going to sell it to em" But now Singer gets the profits

Seethroughitall

12,229 views • 7 months ago

🇨🇳 INTERVIEW: “CHINA IS USING GOLD TO CHALLENGE THE DOLLAR SYSTEM” Luke Gromen, Macroeconomic Strategist “China studied how the U.S. lost control of the gold peg in the 1970s and built a system that avoids the same weakness. By allowing the gold price to float in yuan rather than fixing it, they protect themselves from a direct run on their currency. And by keeping their own gold off the market, they can use it strategically without showing all their cards. It’s not about replacing the dollar overnight. It’s about creating an alternative that slowly shifts power away from the current system.”

🇨🇳 INTERVIEW: “CHINA IS USING GOLD TO CHALLENGE THE DOLLAR SYSTEM” Luke Gromen, Macroeconomic Strategist “China studied how the U.S. lost control of the gold peg in the 1970s and built a system that avoids the same weakness. By allowing the gold price to float in yuan rather than fixing it, they protect themselves from a direct run on their currency. And by keeping their own gold off the market, they can use it strategically without showing all their cards. It’s not about replacing the dollar overnight. It’s about creating an alternative that slowly shifts power away from the current system.”

Mario Nawfal

42,230 views • 9 months ago

THEY SAID IT WAS GOING TO BE WW3 THEY SAID RUSSIA AND CHINA WOULD DEFEND IRAN TO THE END IN REALITY IRAN TAPPED OUT AS 3 WEEKS OF AIRSTRIKES AGREED TO SELL OIL IN AMERICAN DOLLARS THE PETRODOLLAR IS THE STRONGEST IT EVER WAS AMERICA WINS TRUMP WIN EMPIRE WINS AGAIN

THEY SAID IT WAS GOING TO BE WW3 THEY SAID RUSSIA AND CHINA WOULD DEFEND IRAN TO THE END IN REALITY IRAN TAPPED OUT AS 3 WEEKS OF AIRSTRIKES AGREED TO SELL OIL IN AMERICAN DOLLARS THE PETRODOLLAR IS THE STRONGEST IT EVER WAS AMERICA WINS TRUMP WIN EMPIRE WINS AGAIN

Max Prime

53,611 views • 4 months ago

Correct again Richard Medhurst. The goal here is starve China of oil and Dollars, while destroying their Belt & Road initiative. China has 4 months of oil reserves + Russian pipelines, so this Iran blockade could last 6 months or longer if China doesn't make a deal. This oil shortage will damage many countries outside of China that hold U.S. treasuries, and that's the plan. I believe the ultimate goal here is to starve every nation of oil and Dollars so that they're desperately willing to sell their U.S. treasuries back to the U.S. below face value, in exchange for oil or Dollars. This allows the U.S. to take their debt out of circulation (at a discount), and eliminate interest payments on the debt that is no longer sustainable. Thus a Great Reset of debt.

Correct again Richard Medhurst. The goal here is starve China of oil and Dollars, while destroying their Belt & Road initiative. China has 4 months of oil reserves + Russian pipelines, so this Iran blockade could last 6 months or longer if China doesn't make a deal. This oil shortage will damage many countries outside of China that hold U.S. treasuries, and that's the plan. I believe the ultimate goal here is to starve every nation of oil and Dollars so that they're desperately willing to sell their U.S. treasuries back to the U.S. below face value, in exchange for oil or Dollars. This allows the U.S. to take their debt out of circulation (at a discount), and eliminate interest payments on the debt that is no longer sustainable. Thus a Great Reset of debt.

Financelot

647,199 views • 4 months ago

❗️❗️🇺🇸🇻🇪 According to ABC News, Donald Trump is demanding that Venezuela completely sever all ties with Russia, China, Iran, and Cuba, and agree to exclusive cooperation with the United States in the extraction and sale of oil. The reported conditions would place Venezuela’s energy sector under U.S.-centric strategic and commercial control, marking a fundamental realignment of the country’s foreign and economic policy.

❗️❗️🇺🇸🇻🇪 According to ABC News, Donald Trump is demanding that Venezuela completely sever all ties with Russia, China, Iran, and Cuba, and agree to exclusive cooperation with the United States in the extraction and sale of oil. The reported conditions would place Venezuela’s energy sector under U.S.-centric strategic and commercial control, marking a fundamental realignment of the country’s foreign and economic policy.

NSTRIKE

169,651 views • 7 months ago

In a meeting with U.S. oil executives, President Trump announced billions of dollars in investment to rebuild oil infrastructure and refineries in Venezuela. "They need government protection and government security that when they spend all this money, it's going to be there so they get their money back," Trump said. "All the companies here today are going to be treasured partners in bringing the nation of Venezuela back to life."

In a meeting with U.S. oil executives, President Trump announced billions of dollars in investment to rebuild oil infrastructure and refineries in Venezuela. "They need government protection and government security that when they spend all this money, it's going to be there so they get their money back," Trump said. "All the companies here today are going to be treasured partners in bringing the nation of Venezuela back to life."

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37,782 views • 7 months ago