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By Robert Kiyosaki, 04.01.2025

Most people think Iraq, Iran and Venezuela are about oil.

That’s the surface story.

It's about China & I'll prove it!

Look, here’s the deeper question most never ask:

What does Iraq have in common with China today?

And no — it’s not what the media keeps repeating.

It’s not just oil.

It’s who controls the system around the oil.

Back in the early 2000s, Iraq wasn’t just selling oil.

Iraq was threatening to change how oil was priced and settled.

They began moving away from the dollar system.

That’s when Iraq stopped being “a problem nation”

and started becoming a systemic threat.

Fast forward to today.

China doesn’t need to invade countries to control oil.

China controls oil through:

- Long-term purchase agreements

- Oil-for-debt structures

- Shadow shipping networks

- Non-dollar settlement routes

Iran and Venezuela became perfect examples.

✅Iran sends roughly 1.4–1.6 million barrels per day, and the vast majority flows to China through discounted, off-the-books routes.

✅Venezuela exports around 700,000–900,000 barrels per day, with China acting as the primary destination and financier through debt-backed supply deals.

That’s not just energy.

That’s geopolitical leverage.

China wasn’t just buying oil.

China was controlling the exit door after United States put sanctions on them.

So what’s happening now?

The U.S. isn’t “starting wars.”

IT'S BREAKING CONTROL CHAINS.

Step by step.

First, sanctions didn’t target countries — they targeted:

- Shipping companies

- Insurance

- Ports

- Refiners

- Payment rails

That’s not military strategy.

That’s financial warfare.

Then came blockades, seizures, and pressure at sea — the one place where oil can’t hide.

And finally, political shock.

Because once you break:

- Who ships the oil

- Who insures it

- Who settles the payments

You don’t need to “own” the oil fields.

You own the system that decides who gets paid.

This is the same lesson Iraq taught years ago.

It was never just about oil in the ground.

It was about:

- Currency dominance

- Trade settlement power

- Control over global cashflow

Oil is just the bloodstream.

The real fight is over who controls the heart.

That’s why Iran matters.

That’s why Venezuela matters.

And that’s why China is in the middle of this — whether the headlines say so or not.

The rich don’t argue politics.

They study systems.

Because when systems shift, fortunes shift with them.$TAO

The United States has now crossed a new line.

American forces have begun intercepting and seizing oil vessels linked to Venezuela, including ships connected to Russia.

For the first time in a long while, this is no longer just economic pressure on paper. It is physical. It is direct. It is happening on the seas.

At the same time, U.S. and NATO forces are increasing their military posture across Europe. Jets are being repositioned. Forces are being placed on alert. Officially, this is called “readiness.” In reality, it is what nations do when they are preparing for the possibility that something could go wrong.

This tension did not appear from nowhere.

After Trump seized Venezuela

The country sits on the largest proven oil reserves on Earth.

For years, when Europe cut Russia off from much of its energy market, Venezuela became one of the quiet alternative routes, not just for Russia, but also for China and other U.S. rivals.

Now Washington is tightening that tap.

By choking Venezuelan oil exports and physically enforcing it, the United States is not just punishing Caracas. It is squeezing Moscow and its partners from another direction.

Russia, already drained by the long and expensive war in Ukraine, is being pushed into a corner. Its money is thinner. Its options are fewer. Its room to maneuver is shrinking.

And that is the point.

This is not a rush to bombs and missiles. This is something more calculated.

It is pressure.
It is slow suffocation.
It is a geopolitical checkmate strategy.

Instead of striking the king directly, the game is being played by removing the pieces one by one.

Take away funding.
Take away energy routes.
Take away allies’ breathing space.
Then force negotiations.

That is the board Donald Trump is trying to set.

Russia has already called the seizure of its tanker illegal and an act of piracy. The language is getting sharper. The nerves are getting tighter. The margin for mistakes is getting smaller.

The goal is to checkmate Russia and China and bring Putin to negotiate on the American terms

This is how big wars usually start.
Not because someone wants them.
But because too many powerful players keep pushing, and one day someone miscalculates.

Is World War 3 inevitable? No.
But is the world in a dangerous, highly flammable phase right now? Absolutely.

Putin is weaker than he was years ago. The Ukraine war has consumed men, money, weapons, and political capital.

The West knows this. And this is why the pressure is increasing instead of decreasing.

The goal is not immediate destruction.

The goal is to force a queen to be surrendered without burning the whole chessboard.

Let us hope wisdom wins.

Because history has shown us many times that when great powers start testing each other’s limits, the world usually pays the price.

And once events move from ships to missiles, no one remains a spectator.

It all now depends on America and Trump, if they play it right the world will be peaceful and if they miss calculate them their will be problem

Ifeanyi Christopher$TAO

The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.

Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy."

This is about the petrodollar system that has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years.

And Venezuela just threatened to end it.

Here's what really just happened:

Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.

The largest on Earth.

More than Saudi Arabia.

20% of the entire world's oil.

But here's the part that matters:

Venezuela was actively selling that oil in Chinese yuan. Not dollars.

In 2018, Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar."

They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil.

They were petitioning to join BRICS.

They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely.

And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades.

Why does this matter?

Because the entire American financial system is built on one thing:

The petrodollar.

In 1974, Henry Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia:

All oil sold globally must be priced in US dollars.

In exchange, America provides military protection.

This single agreement created artificial demand for dollars worldwide.

Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil.

This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it.

It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending.

The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers.

And there's a pattern of what happens to leaders who challenge it:

2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.

2003: Invaded. Regime change. Iraq's oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam lynched.

The WMDs were never found because they never existed.

2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.

Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirm this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention.

Email quote: "This gold was intended to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar."

2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.

"We came, we saw, he died!" Clinton laughed on camera.

The gold dinar died with him.

And now Maduro.

With FIVE TIMES more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined.

Actively selling in yuan.

Building payment systems outside dollar control.

Petitioning to join BRICS.

Partnered with China, Russia, and Iran.

The three countries leading global de-dollarization.

This isn't coincidence.

Challenge the petrodollar. Get regime changed.

Every. Single. Time.

Stephen Miller (US homeland security advisor) literally said it out loud two weeks ago:

"American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property."

He's not hiding it.

They're claiming Venezuelan oil BELONGS to America because US companies developed it 100 years ago.

By this logic, every nationalized resource in history was "theft."

But here's the DEEPER problem:

The petrodollar is already dying.

Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan since Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements.

Iran has been trading in non-dollar currencies for years.

China built CIPS, their own alternative to SWIFT with 4,800 banks in 185 countries.

BRICS is actively building payment systems that bypass the dollar entirely.

The mBridge project lets central banks settle trades instantly in local currencies.

Venezuela joining BRICS with 303 billion barrels of oil would accelerate this exponentially.

That's what this invasion is really about.

Not stopping drugs. Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of US cocaine.

Not terrorism. There's zero evidence Maduro runs a "terror organization."

Not democracy. The US supports Saudi Arabia, which has zero elections.

This is about maintaining a 50-year-old agreement that lets America print money while the world works for it.

And the consequences are terrifying:

Russia, China, and Iran are already denouncing this as "armed aggression."

China is Venezuela's biggest oil customer. They're losing billions.

BRICS nations are watching a country get invaded for trading outside the dollar.

Every nation considering de-dollarization just got the message:

Challenge the dollar and we will bomb you.

But here's the problem...

That message might accelerate de-dollarization, not stop it.

Because now every country in the Global South knows what happens if you threaten dollar hegemony.

And they're realizing the only protection is to move FASTER.

The timing is insane too:

January 3rd, 2026. Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured.

January 3rd, 1990. Panama invaded. Noriega captured.

36 years apart. Almost to the day.

Same playbook. Same "drug trafficking" excuse.

Same real reason: control of strategic resources and trade routes.

History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes.

What happens next:

Trump's press conference at Mar-a-Lago sets the narrative.

US oil companies are already lined up. Politico reported they've been approached about "returning to Venezuela."

The opposition will be installed. Oil will flow in dollars again.

Venezuela becomes another Iraq. Another Libya.

But here's what nobody's asking:

What happens when you can no longer bomb your way to dollar dominance?

When China has enough economic leverage to retaliate?

When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP and says "no more dollars"?

When the world realizes the petrodollar is maintained by violence?

America just showed its hand.

The question is whether the rest of the world folds or calls the bluff.

Because this invasion is an admission that the dollar can no longer compete on its own merits.

When you have to bomb countries to keep them using your currency, the currency is already dying.

Venezuela isn't the beginning.

It's the desperate end.

What do you think?

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