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Demystifying the Petrodollar Scheme with Alex Gladstein (WiM082)

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The US Dollar and World War II

i think there's a, there's a rothschild quote to that effect, ri give me the ability to issue a nation's currency, i care not who makes its rules? If you can issue the currency, presumes you're holding the gold. So itit puts you in a position of rule making. This shapes the so you have the actual distribution of gold influencing the configuration of geo institutions, countries, power dynamics, all the above. And this also helps to explain a lot of the military activity in the twentieth century, right? So the us. Moves. Initially, dollars pegged to gold. All the other currencies are pegged to the us. Dollar. This gives the

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