There's something interesting about the relationship between what's known as the petro dollar and the push for all of these wars in the middle east. In 19 72, 73, nixon takes us off the gold standard. And this is because we we printed way more money than we actually had to back it up with gold. So now you can't redeem your dollars for oil, but you kind of can redeemed them for gold. The same thing happened within that decade over to soudie arabia. It was a sadamsein talking about going off on a bunch of husams who were trying to kill each other. You know, the true world domination continued out there. We could

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