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De-dollarization Underway: Is The US Dollar Losing Its Reserve Currency Status? | John Rubino

Wealthion - Be Financially Resilient

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The Rise of the Petrodollar in the Middle East

Saudi Arabia has basically cut a series of deals that makes the US unnecessary there and that's an earthquake. If Iran and Saudi Arabia don't want us there and their partners with China its not clear what we're doing over there anymore because Iraq is sort of an Iranian I don't want to say public state but they are in a position where Iran has a lot of influence within Iraq so you take them off the table. What's the point of a US presence in the Middle East other than guaranteeing Israel's security and that doesn't have much to do with oil in the long run, says Peter Bergen.

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