The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.
And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.
Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy."
This is about the petrodollar system that has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years.
And Venezuela just threatened to end it.
Here's what really just happened:
Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.
The largest on Earth.
More than Saudi Arabia.
20% of the entire world's oil.
But here's the part that matters:
Venezuela was actively selling that oil in Chinese yuan. Not dollars.
In 2018, Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar."
They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil.
They were petitioning to join BRICS.
They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely.
And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades.
Why does this matter?
Because the entire American financial system is built on one thing:
The petrodollar.
In 1974, Henry Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia:
All oil sold globally must be priced in US dollars.
In exchange, America provides military protection.
This single agreement created artificial demand for dollars worldwide.
Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil.
This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it.
It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending.
The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers.
And there's a pattern of what happens to leaders who challenge it:
2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.
2003: Invaded. Regime change. Iraq's oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam lynched.
The WMDs were never found because they never existed.
2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.
Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirm this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention.
Email quote: "This gold was intended to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar."
2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.
"We came, we saw, he died!" Clinton laughed on camera.
The gold dinar died with him.
And now Maduro.
With FIVE TIMES more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined.
Actively selling in yuan.
Building payment systems outside dollar control.
Petitioning to join BRICS.
Partnered with China, Russia, and Iran.
The three countries leading global de-dollarization.
This isn't coincidence.
Challenge the petrodollar. Get regime changed.
Every. Single. Time.
Stephen Miller (US homeland security advisor) literally said it out loud two weeks ago:
"American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property."
He's not hiding it.
They're claiming Venezuelan oil BELONGS to America because US companies developed it 100 years ago.
By this logic, every nationalized resource in history was "theft."
But here's the DEEPER problem:
The petrodollar is already dying.
Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan since Ukraine.
Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements.
Iran has been trading in non-dollar currencies for years.
China built CIPS, their own alternative to SWIFT with 4,800 banks in 185 countries.
BRICS is actively building payment systems that bypass the dollar entirely.
The mBridge project lets central banks settle trades instantly in local currencies.
Venezuela joining BRICS with 303 billion barrels of oil would accelerate this exponentially.
That's what this invasion is really about.
Not stopping drugs. Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of US cocaine.
Not terrorism. There's zero evidence Maduro runs a "terror organization."
Not democracy. The US supports Saudi Arabia, which has zero elections.
This is about maintaining a 50-year-old agreement that lets America print money while the world works for it.
And the consequences are terrifying:
Russia, China, and Iran are already denouncing this as "armed aggression."
China is Venezuela's biggest oil customer. They're losing billions.
BRICS nations are watching a country get invaded for trading outside the dollar.
Every nation considering de-dollarization just got the message:
Challenge the dollar and we will bomb you.
But here's the problem...
That message might accelerate de-dollarization, not stop it.
Because now every country in the Global South knows what happens if you threaten dollar hegemony.
And they're realizing the only protection is to move FASTER.
The timing is insane too:
January 3rd, 2026. Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured.
January 3rd, 1990. Panama invaded. Noriega captured.
36 years apart. Almost to the day.
Same playbook. Same "drug trafficking" excuse.
Same real reason: control of strategic resources and trade routes.
History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes.
What happens next:
Trump's press conference at Mar-a-Lago sets the narrative.
US oil companies are already lined up. Politico reported they've been approached about "returning to Venezuela."
The opposition will be installed. Oil will flow in dollars again.
Venezuela becomes another Iraq. Another Libya.
But here's what nobody's asking:
What happens when you can no longer bomb your way to dollar dominance?
When China has enough economic leverage to retaliate?
When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP and says "no more dollars"?
When the world realizes the petrodollar is maintained by violence?
America just showed its hand.
The question is whether the rest of the world folds or calls the bluff.
Because this invasion is an admission that the dollar can no longer compete on its own merits.
When you have to bomb countries to keep them using your currency, the currency is already dying.
Venezuela isn't the beginning.
It's the desperate end.
What do you think?
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of the legendary musical genius, Sly Stone. His influence on music and culture has been immeasurable, and his legacy will resonate for generations. You will be dearly missed 🕊️
This is absolutely priceless. And probably the most frightening clip you'll ever watch on the people in charge of the US economy.
Jared Bernstein is literally the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, the main agency advising Biden on economic policy
En France, on est une sorte de colonie américaine : on mange McDo, on regarde Netflix, on prend les produits de Bill Gates, des Young leaders gèrent le pays, les universités sont pleines d’idéologies américaines.
Oui, mais le problème c'est l’ingérence russe quand même.
🧵Je suis professeur certifiée de SES depuis 12 ans. Ce métier, j'en ai rêvé depuis que j'ai 15 ans. Alors je me suis défoncée pour obtenir mes masters et mon concours. J'obtiens tout du premier coup, je suis fière de moi, j'ai tout donné pour réaliser mon rêve.
Hey @elonmusk
Meet with Vladimir Putin in Moscow and bring a delegation of high visibility Internet stars. Do a long live stream and ask Putin all the tuff questions. If people understand what really happened in Ukraine this war will be over. Let’s prevent WW3 and save humanity?
50Mds pour l’effort de guerre ukrainien ( je croyais qu’ils avaient gagnés ?) le SNU généralisé. L’uniforme a l’école, le général chef de l’OTAN qui appelle à la préparation d’un conflit généralisé. Tu la vois la carotte ou c’est encore trop tôt ?
Quand #Zuckerberg t'explique que Facebook ne censure pas les contenus possiblement pédocriminels "parce qu'on pourrait se tromper".
Mais par contre ton post d'une étude scientifique positive sur l'hydroxychloroquine, ou sur les effets négatifs du vaccin Covid, là ton post saute😆
MALAISE SUR LE PLATEAU DE CNEWS !
Un agriculteur ose enfin dire la vérité, en direct, à la télévision nationale.
Effroi sur le plateau.
Faîtes tourner ces vidéos en masse. Il est vitale pour la France, que le peuple sois mis au courant.
#AgriculteursEnColeres#Frexit
🔥🔥1 personne sur 4 qui a eu le vaccin #Pfizer fabrique des protéines "absurdes" au lieu de la protéine #Spike du Covid.
Ca vient de sortir, étude de Nature, chercheurs de Cambridge, je sais, c'est pas sexy, du jargon de biologie mais c'est une bombe.https://t.co/kIoIWyKoSB⏬1/4
Autrefois notre pays était une voix forte pour la paix, pour la justice, pour les libertés.
La France comptait dans le concert désaccordé des nations, sa voix étant parfois celle des sans voix.
Les générations de young leaders sans culture et sans sens politique ou diplomatique ont fait de notre pays un minuscule territoire à la dérive, devenu traître aux yeux des anciens alliés, devenu ennemi lâche et hypocrite aux yeux des anciens esclaves.
La propagande unique des faucons de Washington assure dorénavant le SAV de la guerre permanente.
Non, les peuples ne veulent jamais la guerre, ils veulent la paix.
"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.
There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.
I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.
It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!
So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.
And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."
Ils n'ont jamais donné d'explication sur les fioles 💉qui devaient être conservées à -70° avec des SUPER-CONGELATEURS, et qui sont passées à des flacons rangés dans un carton de la pharmacie du coin😜
@EricArchambaul7 Ils commencent à comprendre les dégâts qu'ils ont faits dans la confiance des gens lors de ces 2 dernières années. Ils paniquent et deviennent agressifs. Mais rien n'y fera. De plus en plus de gens ont vu le visage de BigPharma. Et quand on l'a vu, on ne peut plus faire semblant.
L’agrément anti-corruption d’Anticor a été annulé par le Tribunal administratif avec effet rétroactif au 2 avril 2021. Cette annulation constitue une atteinte grave à la démocratie, ainsi qu'aux libertés associatives.
#JeSoutiensAnticor
@A_H_Alexander Et c’est d’autant plus surprenant que cette lecture qui est faite des temps modernes n’est diffusée qu’en Occident. Rien de tout cela au Moyen-Orient, en Asie, en Afrique.
Rien dans ces pays démographiquement et industriellement dynamiques. Il y a comme une fin de règne chez nous
Should Bill Gates be releasing 30 million genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild? Part of the mentality of earth-as-engineering-object. What could possibly go wrong?
https://t.co/o4AdfFJ4NO
Henry parle d'une "OPÉRATION" en désignant l'attaque d'Annecy 😳
"J'ai fait une longue déclaration à la police, où fallait donner les détails de l'opération... de l'attaque"
Oups. ⤵️🤔