01/03/2026
The real reason the U.S. is moving on Venezuela has nothing to do with drugs, terrorism, or âsaving democracy.â
It goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger cut in 1974.
And itâs about one thing only:
the survival of the U.S. dollar.
Not Maduro.
Not co***ne.
Not human rights.
The petrodollar.
The system thatâs kept America on top for 50 years.
And Venezuela just poked it in the eye.
Hereâs what actually matters.
Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.
The most on Earth.
More than Saudi Arabia.
Roughly 20% of global supply.
But the oil isnât the threat.
The currency is.
In 2018, Venezuela announced it would stop selling oil in U.S. dollars.
They openly said they wanted to âfree themselves from the dollar.â
They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything but dollars.
They built payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely.
They petitioned to join BRICS.
And they were sitting on enough oil to bankroll de-dollarization for decades.
Thatâs the red line.
Because the American financial system is propped up by one quiet rule most people never learn about.
In 1974, Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia:
All global oil would be priced in U.S. dollars.
In return, America provides military protection.
That single agreement forced the entire world to hold dollars just to function.
It created permanent demand for U.S. currency.
It let America print money while other countries had to earn it.
Thatâs how you fund endless wars, deficits, and empire.
The petrodollar matters more than aircraft carriers.
And thereâs a very consistent pattern when leaders threaten it.
2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros.
2003: Iraq is invaded. Regime change. Oil sales switch back to dollars.
No WMDs. Because there never were any.
2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency for oil trade.
Leaked emails from Hillary Clinton confirm this was a primary concern.
2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi is murdered.
Libya collapses into chaos and open slave markets.
The gold dinar disappears with him.
Now Maduro.
Except this time the stakes are higher.
Venezuela has more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined.
Theyâre already selling in yuan.
Already bypassing dollar systems.
Already aligned with China, Russia, and Iran.
The three countries leading global de-dollarization.
This isnât subtle.
Challenge the petrodollar.
Get regime changed.
Every. Single. Time.
And this time theyâre not even pretending.
Stephen Miller said it out loud:
âAmerican sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest theft of American wealth in history.â
Translation:
We built it, so itâs ours.
By that logic, every nationalized resource on Earth is âtheft.â
But hereâs the bigger problem.
The petrodollar is already cracking.
Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan.
Iran hasnât used dollars in years.
Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements.
China built CIPS, its own SWIFT alternative, with thousands of banks worldwide.
BRICS is building payment rails that donât touch the dollar at all.
The mBridge project lets central banks settle instantly in local currencies.
Now imagine Venezuela joining BRICS with the worldâs largest oil reserves.
That accelerates everything.
Thatâs what this is about.
Not drugs. Venezuela supplies less than 1% of U.S. co***ne.
Not terrorism. Thereâs zero evidence Maduro runs one.
Not democracy. The U.S. arms Saudi Arabia, which doesnât even pretend to vote.
This is about preserving a 50-year-old financial arrangement enforced by force.
And the fallout is dangerous.
Russia, China, and Iran are already calling this armed aggression.
China is Venezuelaâs biggest oil customer. Theyâre losing billions.
Every country considering de-dollarization just watched what happens when you try.
The message is clear:
Trade outside the dollar and we will bomb you.
But hereâs the catch.
That message may speed things up, not slow them down.
Because now the Global South knows the dollar isnât dominant by strength.
Itâs dominant by threat.
And the timing says everything.
January 3, 2026: Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured.
January 3, 1990: Panama invaded. Noriega captured.
Same excuse.
Same playbook.
Same outcome.
Control resources.
Control trade.
Control currency.
Next comes the script everyoneâs already memorized.
A press conference.
A ânew government.â
U.S. oil companies returning.
Oil flowing in dollars again.
Another Iraq.
Another Libya.
But the real question nobody wants to touch is this:
What happens when bombing no longer works?
When China can economically retaliate?
When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP?
When countries decide the cost of dollar dependence is worse than the risk of breaking free?
Because when you have to use military force to keep people using your currency, the currency is already in trouble.
Venezuela isnât the beginning.
It looks a lot more like the end.
