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_S4th Jan 2026 : The next 72 hours promise to be a wild ride in geopolitics. 😅
If the United States succeeds in imposing control over Venezuela and its large oil reserves,
it will mark a major shift in global power.
this is really not about restoring democracy or protecting human rights, but about the United States reasserting strategic dominance over energy, trade routes, and regional alignments.
remember the entire American financial system is built on one thing:
The petrodollar. the petrodollar system has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years.
From the early Cold War to the Gulf Wars, American power has been tethered to oil. Whoever controlled the flow of oil controlled the arteries of the global economy
Venezuela threatened to end the dominance of the US dollar by actively selling its oil in Chinese yuan
History has a habit of circling back. Strip away the moral talk and we are back to a hunter-gatherer world—except the weapons are modern and the hunts are strategic. Oil and gold were always the prize.
@_soniashenoy
