The Real War: Not Drugs, Not Democracy — Dollars Strip away the media varnish and you’ll see it: the U.S. didn’t storm into Caracas to save democracy or neutralize a narco-state. That’s the cover story. The real issue is the Petrodollar system — and the growing rebellion against it. For decades, global oil has been priced and settled in dollars. That’s not just convenience — it’s the lifeblood of America’s ability to run trillion-dollar deficits without collapsing into hyperinflation. But Venezuela, flush with heavy crude, gold, and rare earths, wasn’t playing ball anymore. Instead, it was: Selling oil to China outside the dollar Linking infrastructure to China’s Belt and Road Storing gold abroad and preparing for a hard-asset trade system…
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