Mastodawn

"Those of you who are not specialists on the subject may be wondering: what exactly is ‘the bond market’? What is a ‘dollar-denominated bond’? What is the ‘petrodollar’, or indeed, the ‘petroyuan’? How does this entire system work? Financial markets are conceptually simple but operationally complex, often appearing opaque because they are laden with jargon and because specialised actors seem to be interpreting and acting on the basis of abstract expectations and relative prices.

This newsletter is a primer on some of the key concepts needed to understand the global financial system in the context of the illegal war waged by the United States and Israel against Iran. For the specialist, the answers to the questions that follow may be too simplistic while for the general reader, some conceptual questions may not be fully answered. That is the limit of any primer, so forgive us in advance."

https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/a-primer-on-the-petrodollar/

#Iran #USA #War #Trump #Petrodollar

A Primer on the Petrodollar and the War on Iran: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2026)

The illegal US-Israeli war on Iran is exposing the Oil-Dollar-Wall Street complex that binds oil, financial markets, and dollar power, with consequences that reach far beyond the region.

Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

Lydia Conwell 1d ago

Now this is worth watching. The birth of the petrogas-Dollar and the US's transition into a Pirate State. What the US's recent actions are really about: The control of oil and to stop China.

#RichardMedhurst | The Petrogas-Dollar: The Secret US Strategy Behind the Iran War

https://rumble.com/v78jbx2-the-petrogas-dollar-the-secret-us-strategy-behind-the-iran-war.html

#Iran #China #US #PetroDollar #PetrogasDollar #PirateState #Oil #Chevron #BeltAndRoadInitiative

Police State UK 3d ago

"The infrastructure is already built."

#Politics #Oil #Petrodollar

https://youtube.com/shorts/_Wk1jWj646w

The Real War Nobody Is Talking About | Hormuz, The Dollar & 50 Years of Financial Dominance

YouTube

This is so good and as you say, topical again with all the same players and same plot line although this time the respective leaders and positions of participants are very different.

Once you understand the current US wars, attacks etc (Russia included) are all related to US trying to save the #petrodollar racket from a world transition to a #multipolar trading economy which will bankrupt USA, now essentially insolvent with a $41T debt.

We're in for some frightening times.

@TreeStarMan

Urban Wronski Writes 4d ago

Mission Impossible

Trump’s Hormuz blockade is live. Oil is at $102. China’s Defence Minister says the strait is open for Chinese ships and dares the US to stop them. A forty-nation coalition is forming against the blockade. And one of the last two tankers carrying pre-war oil on earth is heading to Australia. Urban Wronski on the war Trump cannot win.

https://urbanwronski.com/2026/04/14/mission-impossible/

Toshisada Utsunomiya 4d ago

New paper on #Zenodo:

Midterms and the Iran War

🔗https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19556923
#Iran #Midterms #Petrodollar

Midterms and the Iran War: Defining Power, Public Support, and the Post-Westphalian Transition

This paper argues that the trajectory of the U.S.–Iran war is constrained less by battlefieldcapability than by political time: elections, media-defined frames, and the durability of publicconsent. The central variable is defining power—the ability to fix the meaning of the war in afragmented information environment. The paper develops three linked claims. First, astructural conflict between the administration and established media institutions weakenscoordinated agenda-setting in wartime. Second, the reversal of diplomatic normalisation after7 October 2023 illustrates how quickly regional predictability can be undone when proxyarchitectures reintroduce high-intensity conflict. Third, the U.S. midterm cycle exerts agravitational pull towards short-term stabilisation over strategic completion, makingdefinitional power and public support decisive constraints on strategic resolve. Throughout,the paper separates factual claims from scenario-level inference and treats projections withcaution.

Zenodo

Urban Wronski Writes 5d ago

Hormuz Dateline

The war now has the smell of salt, oil, and old empires trying to defy the tide. Thirty-three kilometres. That is the width of the Strait of Hormuz at its narrowest navigable point: two shipping lanes, each two miles wide, one in, one out, with a median strip of Iranian territorial water between them. Through those lanes passes approximately 21 million barrels of oil every single day. That is one barrel in every five consumed anywhere on earth. Add the liquefied natural gas, and you have […]

https://urbanwronski.com/2026/04/13/hormuz-dateline/

The Digital Coolie 🇵🇸🇮🇷🇱🇧🇾🇪🇮🇶5d ago

The United States is transitioning from a traditional empire into a "pirate state" that seeks to monopolize the global energy supply to sustain the value of the US dollar. Medhurst posits that current geopolitical conflicts, including the war in Iran, are not isolated events but part of a calculated strategy to dismantle competing energy networks and force reliance on US-controlled exports.

#us #usa #uspol #eu #eupol #uk #ukpol #iran #israel #russia #china #petrodollar

https://youtu.be/0nt1CgQsgpI

The Petrogas-Dollar: The Secret US Strategy Behind the Iran War

YouTube

K U L T ™5d ago

#Iran’s Toll #System in the #Strait of #Hormuz Tests the #Petrodollar as Inflation Soars

https://www.patreon.com/posts/irans-toll-in-of-155469697

nonlinear 6d ago

Explaining to Americans: #petrodollar is what made its balooning #debt not feel like one. It was sustained by US ensuring all international transactions were made on it, most of time by #military force.

Your debt made a lot of people rich, but didn’t help your society: no universal health care, no free education, no housing programs.

All you got was plastic, electronics, entertainment, and a lot of #racism to justify the lack of investment. What a deal.

And now it’s crashing down.