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TheLegendaryBigBoss said:
TallSilhouette said:

That, along with a hefty dose of islamophobia.

Wonder what would happen if the middle east stopped using US$ for oil

They had that plan to switch to the Euro, then 4.5 million people died in the Middle East from the Afghanistan, Iraq wars.

Today it would be BRICS they could switch to (and already are)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tilakdoshi/2022/07/21/brics-in-the-new-world-energy-order-hedging-in-oil-geopolitics/?sh=744a409624bf

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/how-would-a-new-brics-currency-affect-the-us-dollar-updated-2024

Probably one of the reasons (if not the biggest) behind US' ironclad support for Israel, to keep a dominant foothold in the ME. And the whole pressure on Saudi-Aribia normalisation with Israel. Palestine is a threat to the US dollar...