RIP the Petrodollar & Its Implications (Part 4 of a 4-part article)

Events From 17 July to 10 September The US/Israeli war against Iran began in earnest in 2024 and reached a peak in March 2026. Iran defeated both of them. It was the first major defeat suffered by the US/Israeli combination. After the MOU was signed in Versailles on 17 June by Trump — a surrender […]

RIP the Petrodollar & Its Implications (Part 3 of a 4-part article)

Abu Dhabi — The First Domino Has Fallen The cascade we predicted is starting. So why did the UAE just ask Washington for an emergency loan? Because this is not really about whether the UAE has money. It is about what the UAE would have to sell to get that money. And that brings us […]

RIP the Petrodollar & Its Implications (Part 2 of a 4-part article)

3. WHO Did 9/11 & WHY? In order to understand why the attacks of September 11, 2001, in New York took place, we will have to look at some background. It all has to do with the quest for American dominance of Eurasia. Russia, China and the Central Asian nations were rattled by these American […]

RIP the Petrodollar & Its Implications (Part 1 of a 4-part article)

Contents 1. Birth of the Petrodollar Formation of OPEC American oil companies entered the Middle East from the late 1920s through the 1930s, first in Bahrain and Kuwait and then in Saudi Arabia by the early 1930s. British oil companies were active in Iran and Iraq. By the end of World War II, in 1945, […]

Iran – From MOU to War Part 3 (of a 3 Part Series)

The story continues from Part 2 5 Stealing Iran’s money We Outright Grabbed the Wallets’: Bessent Boasts $1BN In Iran State Crypto Seized to Date Washington’s economic war on Iran and its ‘shadow’ banking network continues, as on Friday Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the US has seized $1 billion in Iranian cryptocurrency assets. The billion-dollar […]

Iran – From MOU to War Part 2 (of a 3 Part Series)

IRGC breaks down US military losses over 15 days of Iranian strikes as of 25th July. Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) spokesperson Hussein Mohebbi outlined US military of retaliatory Iranian strikes on US bases across the region, in response to US aggression on the country launched from these bases. In remarks to Tasnim, Mohebbi detailed those Iranian […]

Iran – From MOU to War Part 1 (of a 3 Part Series)

1 From War to MOU 2 From MOU to War 3 Data Center attacks 4 Iran imposes a new equation 5 Stealing Iran’s money 6 Iran-Oman Hormuz deal 7 The US blockade 8 False flags & the Abu Dhabi bribe 9 Re-building the Gulf states energy infrastructure 10 The last US move against Iran foiled […]

Iran & the Grand Chessboard

Background Zbigniew Brzezinski, a grand master of US imperial strategy in the Cold War, put forward some of the most insightful analysis for us to understand America’s war on Iran. In his 1997 book The Grand Chessboard, Brzezinski identified Iran as one of the “critically important geopolitical pivots” in what he called the “Eurasian Balkans”—a region […]

Russia’s Strategic Patience Ends Part 2 (of a 2 Part Series)

The Wildberries Attacks After weaving another impressive made-for-TV spectacle by hitting Russian retail chain Wildberries with his patented kerosene drones, Zelensky was stupefied to discover that Russia was able to strike back thrice as hard. Thus, an escalation spiral ensues. And as we’ve seen in Iran, when a nation is not able to inflict a […]

Russia’s Strategic Patience Ends Part 1 (of a 2 Part series)

1 Europe’s Position 2 Energy Infrastructure Wars 3 NATO Takes the Lead 4 Putin’s “Strategic Patience” is nearly over 5 Why doesn’t Russia “attack Europe” in response? 6 Geopolitical Pivots 7 Russia & Israel – Warfare Comparisons Our last article on Russia was “A US Defeat leads to a global Reset”, dated 5th October. We […]

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