It’s not enough to emphasize that the West wants regime change in Venezuela because of its oil! That’s a given. What’s not discussed is what the oil is wanted for. What Maduro’s Venezuela and its allies Russia, China, Turkey & others are doing is inventing new means for pricing, trading & investing oil, along with other valuable natural resources like gold, and doing so away from the US dollar. What that in turn could eventually do is unravel a global fiscal house of cards, tied together by the strange bedfellows of reserve currency confidence and endless mounds of debt, which would make the 2008 Financial Crisis look like merely failing to advance in a game of Dragon’s Lair circa 1983. Yes, I like ‘80s references.
From the view of the US & its transatlantic allies, the current global monetary system, which is based on the US dollar as reserve currency and energy pricing & trading standard, cannot tolerate a shift away from dollar pricing & trading of oil without sustaining cataclysmic effects upon the US, UK, EU & Japanese economies. The ability of the US to perennially borrow from itself to finance its deficits cannot sustain were oil somehow to be sustainably priced in nondollar terms, as the dollar’s global reserve currency status would then effectively be called into question, especially considering the obscene levels of public & private debts plaguing the western banking system. Nations such as Venezuela, China, Russia, India, Japan, Germany, Venezuela, Turkey, Iran and others know this & are trying to plan around it, and Caracas is one testing ground. Hence the frantic haste in Washington for removing Maduro by any means necessary.
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Show Notes
Venezuela’s Crisis Threatens U.S. Control Over Oil Prices
Venezuela Oil Company PdVSA Given Until April 28 Before Crude Oil Ban
A Dethroned Petrodollar: Could even the US Treasury be caught off guard?
The US can eliminate its trade deficit or run the world’s dominant currency—but not both
Report: U.S.-Based Plane Caught Bringing Arms into Venezuela
U.S. Treasury Set to Borrow $1 Trillion for a Second Year to Finance the Deficit
How Petrodollars Affect The U.S. Dollar
Chevron, the Last U.S. Oil Major in Venezuela, Debates : Should It Stay?
The Latest: Chevron says Venezuela operations to continue
Total pulls staff out of Venezuela after US sanctions
Treasury sanctions Venezuela state-owned oil firm in bid to transfer control to Maduro opposition
Iran, Venezuela, Russia may face pain from cratering oil prices
Why Would the Saudis Deliberately Crash the Oil Markets?
Venezuela to bump China oil exports to one million barrels a day
Venezuela Oil Joint Venture Thrives Within Months of China Deal
Chinese-Venezuelan Joint Venture Doubles Oil Production
Chinese investments most at risk from US sanctions against Venezuela
Venezuela frees Chevron executives held since April
Venezuela’s “Petro” Cryptocurrency: Money in Revolt
Petromoneda – “Petro” (cryptocurrency)
In Venezuela, Russia pockets key energy assets in exchange for cash bailouts
Venezuela’s Oil Enough for World’s 30 Year Energy Needs
Venezuela Confirms Coltan Deposits, $100 Billion in Gold Reserves
Venezuela Says China Investing $250 Million to Boost Oil Output
China oil futures launch may threaten primacy of U.S. dollar: UBS
Russia Signs $6 Billion Investment Deals With Venezuela, Maduro Says
Russia Vows To Defend Its Venezuelan Oil Assets
Venezuela's New Focus on Heavy Oil
Amid The Venezuelan Crisis, A Look At Oil, Russia And Trump
The Coming US-China Proxy War In Venezuela
Russian Tu-160 Bombers Fly 10-Hour Caribbean Patrol From Venezuela Drawing Ire From U.S.
Two wrenches in Washington's oil sanctions against Venezuela: China and Russia
Oil output bounces back at Venezuela-China crude joint venture
Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society
China Moves To Dominate Gold Market With Physical Exchange
Petroyuan – the shape of things to come
The billion-yuan question facing China’s crude futures exchange
Saudi Arabia to build US$10 billion oil refinery at China-funded Gwadar Port in Pakistan
Why Russia, China are fighting US push against Venezuela's Maduro
Venezuela gold holdings in Bank of England soar on Deutsche deal: sources
Op-Ed: UK Central Bank Holds Venezuela’s Gold Hostage – Bitcoin Users Unaffected
Cryptocurrency, Economy Experts Support Maduro in Clash With Bank of England
The Oil “Price” Is A Key Political Tool
Venezuela Will Need a Bigger Chart for Its BTC Trading Volume
Maduro Sold 40% of Venezuela's Gold Last Year Amid Cash Crunch
Trump Orders Sanctions on Venezuela Gold to Pressure Maduro
Venezuela to refine tons of gold in Turkey
Are We Nearing Another Credit Crisis?
Mystery of the Venezuelan gold: Bank of England is independent of UK govt – but not of foreign govt
Washington Intends to Fight Maduro With Venezuela's Own Monies -- A View From Russia
London may be key to ‘hot’ euro-yuan rival to the US dollar
Dollar-Selloff Intensifies as China Launches Petro Yuan On March 27, 2018
What will happen to the US dollar if China starts buying oil in yuan?
China is reportedly taking the first steps to pay for oil in yuan: Sources
China’s petro-yuan ‘thundering into action’ as Iran ditches US dollar in oil trade
Global Trading Giants Dip Toes in China Oil Futures on Debut Day
China Ends 25-Year Wait as Yuan Oil Futures to Start Trading
Petroyuan: China Gives Dollar Jitters as it Introduces Yuan Oil Futures
How China Is About to Shake Up the Oil Futures Market
Trump Admin Hands Venezuela's US-Housed Bank Accounts Over To Guaido
Venezuela is not only about Oil, but about Russia and Gold…
Papers
Risque pays du Venezuela : Commerce international - Société Générale
China: The Emergence of the Petroyuan and the Challenge to US Dollar Hegemony by John A. Mathews and Mark Selden
Gold: A Zero-Risk Monetary Asset by Nick Barisheff
Oil On Gold: Exploring a Hard Asset, Multipolar Alternative to the Petrodollar Standard by Pye Ian
Books
The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony:
Petrodollar Recycling and International Markets by David E. Spiro
The Gold Cartel: Government Intervention on Gold, the Mega Bubble in Paper, and What This Means for Your Future by Dimitri Speck
The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Translated by Lionel Giles)
Videos
Venezuela redirects oil exports away from US
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Thank you for your analysis of why US policy towards Venezuela has become much more aggressive recently.
What do you think about Russian Lukol recently stopping its oil swaps with Venezuela because Lukol did not want to suffer from US sanctions? Does this indicate Russian entities might be limited in how much they can help Venezuela?
Thank you. I sense the Lukoil/Litasco move is in actuality a defensive one, albeit potentially couched to project compliance with US sanctions.
Keep in mind that Russia is hardly abiding by unilateral US sanctions imposed practically anywhere else, and more importantly, Moscow has had plenty of US sanctions thrown at itself for years now.
Speaking of the latter, fresh newer sanctions were just proposed by Washington against Moscow. Note the language in the below:
http://tass.com/politics/1045137
“The legislators suggest restrictions on transactions with Russian sovereign bonds and also sanctions against energy projects by Russian state companies abroad and certain banks.”
That said, larger Russian oil concern Gazprom Neft doesn’t see the need to pull out of Venezuela.