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BlueTsunami2018

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12. No, this is about the petrodollar.

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2026, 12:41 PM

Jan 5

People are making this out to be some complicated affair. The two world capitalist powers, the G7 and BRICS, are trying to establish global economic dominance.

Venezuela has been dealing with BRICS nations that use a different currency than the petrodollar. We (the west) need them on the petrodollar. That’s all this is about, forcing them back into the fold. And that’s what Iraq was about.as well. Personalities have nothing to do with it.

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No, this is about the petrodollar. BlueTsunami2018 Jan 5 #12

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