It’s tempting to believe that the US war machine is finished. Militarily, Iran have indeed dealt the US their worst humiliation in modern history — oneI covered in clinical detail.
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But in the background, Washington have been quietly carrying out an armed robbery of the world’s oil and gas supply. All of it.
In just 90 days, the US have executed an energy blitzkrieg decades in the making:
And in the process, kidnapped and assassinated two heads of state. We are witnessing the transition of the United States from an empire into a lawless Pirate State, and the birth of what I call thePetrogas-dollarorLNG-Dollar.
The timeline of this campaign speaks for itself:
In the past, the United States were very sensitive to oil shocks. Closing the Strait of Hormuz would have been a catastrophe, as the US couldn’t produce enough oil to meet demand.
But today, they are the world’s largest producers of oil, gas, and refined products, and the planet’s top exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Many still buy into the old mantra that high oil prices are bad for the US, but the opposite is true. For the first time during a global shortage, the dollar isn’t crashing while gold surges — it’s the other way around. High energy prices aren’t a threat to Wall Street anymore — they are in fact the objective.
Source: Global Research
