If you want to understand why Washington panics at the word petroyuan, stop thinking like an economist and start thinking like a gangster.

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Sony Thăng

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If you want to understand why Washington panics at the word petroyuan, stop thinking like an economist and start thinking like a gangster. A gangster does not fear the first lost dollar. He fears the first open act of disobedience. He fears the moment the neighborhood realizes the tribute was never sacred. It was enforced. And what is enforced can be outwaited, bypassed, negotiated around, or one day ignored. Hormuz is dangerous to the United States because it dramatizes that possibility. A toll booth at the center of global energy where the old collector no longer controls every lane. That is why the rhetoric gets so frantic. The empire is not hearing a different currency. It is hearing the sound of tribute becoming optional.

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Petroyuan is already in effect in the Strait of Hormuz toll booth. Up next: China suggests to GCC to sell all their energy in petroyuan. They get free Hormuz passage. China opens Shanghai Gold Exchange vaults, co-custody by Iran and GCC . Iran and GCC are then able to

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