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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 hours agoIf anything Trump was trying to prevent the change away from the petrodollar standard. That “currency” allows the US to run up debts because nobody wants the dollar to collapse and wreck everything traded in USD.
reuters.com/…/trumps-venezuela-oil-grab-revives-p…
I don’t know about the quality of this site, so be skeptical: factually.co/…/was-iran-threatening-to-abandon-pe…
marcos@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Iran has been out of the petrodollar system since the maximalist sanctions the US imposed in 1995. Sanctioned countries don’t have a use for dollars.