If you’re anything like me, you’ve been taking a crash course in Venezuelan politics in recent days. America’s relationship with Venezuela has been a dumpster fire for more than two decades, but before now, the American government tended to try less visible methods of regime change and coups. Since 2013, Nicolas Maduro has been “president” of Venezuela. Up until Saturday, January 3, 2026. That was when Donald Trump decided to down a fistful of aspirin and ten Big Macs, and then he ordered strikes across Venezuela and the capture of Maduro and his wife. Apparently, Maduro is now in American custody.
President Donald Trump has launched military strikes in Venezuela in an effort to dismantle the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Having accused the Venezuelan president of drug-related crimes, Trump, 79, confirmed the order of “large-scale strikes” in the region and the capture of Maduro, 63, in a statement on Truth Social on Saturday, Jan. 3.
“The United States of America has successfully carried out a large-scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the country,” wrote Trump. “This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement.”
Trump ordered airstrikes on various sites in Venezuela early morning on Saturday, including the capital, Caracas, and on military bases, officials told CBS News and the BBC. This comes as the U.S. military presence has recently increased in the region, with several warships positioned in the Caribbean. Maduro is accused by Trump of drug trafficking and “forcing” migration to the US. The Venezuelan president is also accused of using oil money to fund his alleged drug-related crimes, all of which he has denied, per CBS News.
Maduro isn’t exactly “forcing” migration to the US – Venezuela has been largely a failed state for over a decade, and Venezuelans have fled their country in a steady stream for years, seeking work and stability. They’re not solely coming to the US, they’re also migrating to Mexico and they’re going to neighboring South American countries. So, America has “invaded” Venezuela and deposed their leader. What happens now? Well, Donald Trump has some spectacularly half-assed plans.
President Trump said on Saturday that the United States had captured the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, and was taking him to New York to face criminal charges, the stunning culmination of a monthslong campaign by his administration to oust the authoritarian leader. The United States would “run” the country until a proper transition of power could be arranged, the president said hours later, raising the prospect of an open-ended commitment.
Mr. Trump offered few details about how the United States would oversee Venezuela, saying only that an unspecified “group” would do so. It was not clear whether that would involve an occupying military force, although Mr. Trump said he was not afraid of “boots on the ground.”
Venezuela’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, had spoken to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and told him she was “essentially willing to do what we think is necessary,” Mr. Trump told reporters during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida. But Ms. Rodríguez earlier denounced the U.S. operation on state television, calling it a “brutal attack.”
While Mr. Trump said little about how the United States would be “running” Venezuela, he insisted it “won’t cost us anything” because American oil companies would rebuild the energy infrastructure in Venezuela, which holds vast reserves of oil.
“We are going to run the country right,″ Mr. Trump said as he turned to oil. “It’s going to make a lot of money.” Past Venezuelan governments, he said, “stole our oil” — an apparent reference to the country’s nationalization of its oil industry.
“Don’t worry, we’re going to turn it into a corporate-run petrostate with zero oversight” is not a plan. Speaking of oversight… Trump did not get any kind of congressional authorization for this. In fact, many Democrats on the House and Senate Foreign Relations committees are saying that the Trump administration kept them completely in the dark about all of this. It’s kind of crazy for Trump’s position to be “we’re going to charge Maduro with crimes” whilst committing dozens of war crimes and American crimes.
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Congress, especially Repulublicans have created a system where there is no reason for their roles to exist.
trump is just the symbol of all that is wrong with America and a manifestation of the lies and bullshit that is.
YES 👆
100%
Yep…I fear there is no way out of this as the Republicans in office are willing to capitulate to this administration and their funders (the deep state they decried 🙄) and if Democrats are able to flip any seats, it will be too late.
We already see the military willing to carry out these actions in broad daylight, so it doesn’t look like we will see any positives there.
I hope and pray someone stops this madman soon
I think that’s the problem. Everyone is praying and hoping that someone else will do it
Spot on, sadly. The US Congress is apparently waiting for the ghosts of Presidents past to rise up and do something, and – in my opinion – the responses of the other leaders of the Western world have been praised as diplomatic when, in reality, to a person like Trump, they are weak and passive. It doesn’t send a good message at all, versus that of Mexico’s president: “Sheinbaum’s immediate reaction to the Venezuelan attack was to issue a statement ‘condemning the military intervention in Venezuela’ and citing Article 2, paragraph 4 of the United Nations Charter that reads: ‘All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.’
Trump has broken international law and all governments in the Western hemisphere should be worried about this action. But the US has wanted regime change in Venezuela for over 20 years, I don’t expect Congress to do anything about this nor former Presidents to go against Trump for invading Venezuela.
He’s coming up on one year in office, but it feels like four years. One down. Three more to go. I try to put it out of my mind because I just can’t imagine three more years like this past year. I’m living in a dystopian nightmare.
I hate to be a pedant, but it hasn’t even been one year since he’s been in office yet. Not until half-way through January 20, 2026. So, the only reason I stress this is because he’s done all this nonsense in under one year, that jerk. I’m just here, shaking my head at everything going on. Just waiting until Americans wail in shock, “How could another 9-11 have happened on American soil again?! How?”
I’ve never been a fan of America or the American dream. I think the US is overrated. Currently, with each passing day, I dislike America more and more, and worst of all, I feel less and less sorry for its people. I know not everyone voted for Trump, but that’s no longer important. I’m starting to blame everyone for what’s happening, and I’m probably not the only one who sees it this way. And I consider the EU, NATO, and the UN useless organizations. It’s a sick joke.
This whole situation is so scary.
Though Maduro is a dictator and should be arrested for many crimes, the true reason for this invasion was oil alone. What stops the USA or any other nation to invade the neighbour country because they have oil, diamonds, lythium or and other minerals/ metals considered precious?
Is he invading Greenland now? Is China invading Taiwan? I believe Greenland for now is somewhat safe because no way is Putin accepting American military next to russian borders, but the Orange is out of his mind.
The world was somewhat safe, but now…
The European Union has to be very careful on what stand it takes, we’re in the middle of two dangerous individuals, Trump and Putin. Never thought I’d say that China seems to be the most reasonable of the dangerous trio, but hey, who knows… one thing is for sure, I’m feeling very pessimistic and scared…
Stephen Miller’s wife, Katie Miller has posted on X a map of Greenland with the US flag super imposed on it. I don’t think Greenland is safe and none of this bodes well for Canada.
Going after Venezuela is the starting point. As someone else already pointed out, they are low hanging fruit – their leadership is a problem from anyone’s perspective. But they are going to use that to start re-setting what is considered “normal” or on the edge of unacceptable. They already tried it with sending the National Guard out to cities they don’t like. This is just another plan in their playbook. They will continue to find “reasons” to invade/bomb/control citizens of any country until it’s the new normal. The laws/application of law has already changed so much, they are trying to make it difficult to remove them. Look at what Texas is doing. This attack is meant for two things: oil and re-setting the narrative of what the US is allowed to do. Laws be damned.
Trump hinted yesterday that Cuba is next. Probably Trump and his family are hoping to build resorts there, bringing back the 1950s, in addition to making de Santos and other Cuban-Americans happy. I was in Cuba last year and it’s definitely not doing well–but that’s partly because of our sanctions. Whatever the case, it’s NOT the US’ responsibility to do regime change wherever we feel like it and for whatever cr@ppy reasons we make up!
Why would you blame even the people who didn’t vote for Trump for his mad actions?
Because the weak ass protests and otherwise inaction of all the American people is tacit approval of his behaviour.
All Americans own this. People have died and will continue to die while Americans live their lives without real consequences to what their evil government is doing.
Nic919 – this x 1000! Who I really blamed at first are the people who didn’t vote against him. His supporters are a lost cause but they’re still the minority. The people who convinced themselves of whatever “righteous” reason they sat out the 2024 election need to own that and start fighting back.
But yes even those of us who voted, canvassed, donated, etc need to be doing more. This is 1930s Germany and we’ve all lied to ourselves that we would have done something then.
I watched a few ad supported movies during my vacation, the first time I’ve seen tv ads all year. Mygawd. The PSAs about how we’re making Europe pay for all their freeloading? EU take this threat seriously!!
Nic919: You are wrong. Many of us are working very hard to right things. I myself am helping to shield immigrants from ICE. What else should I be doing besides working and raising my family and volunteering teaching English? Do let me know.
Trump was democratically elected and there’s not a hell of a lot we can do about that now. He won on a slim margin against poor candidates–Harris and Biden, both lousy. Sorry, fellow Dems, but it’s the truth.
@Betsy- Harris had really solid plans for increasing housing and reducing inflation. Was the former AT of the most populous border state and understand border politics better than nearly any other potential candidate. I could go on. She wasn’t a “lousy” candidate. She was a woman of color. So people who’d never even heard of Gaza three years ago decided they suddenly cared about this issue and buy into the rhetoric that she was responsible to justify their bigotry to themselves and not vote for her.
@Mightymolly: Of course I voted for Harris and I think she would have made a good president. But as a candidate, a woman of color from California, she was weak and she didn’t have enough time to prepare.
@Betsy – We are in full agreement on that point. It still astonishes me that this should matter, though, when the other option was being so transparent in his intent to be an authoritarian. I would have sooner voted for my neighbor’s cat.
Bullsh*t I don’t own this!! I’m horrified every day that I wake up over the depravity & utter lawlessness perpetrated by this president & his overloads & minions.
@Nic919
are you suggesting that those who voted against him and are protesting him and the GOP are to blame because we haven’t staged a bloody coup to remove him, the conservatives in SCOTUS and those in Congress who have been derelict in their duties because it sounds like you are saying that any American that hasn’t tried to overthrow the current administration by force or at least assassinate Trump is to blame for that unhinged lunatic and his merry brigade of Nazis
@Brit, there days when I completely agree with you and look for ways to move to Europe. And other days when I look around at all the dedicated people who are participating in marches, writing their editors, boycotting Bezos and Musk and others, and so on (I’m doing some of these things), and I think, I want to stay and work with them in the movement against the orange fascist.
If it helps, about 77 million voted for Trump in 2024–out of a voting age population of about 258 million. The dems ran two weak candidates in 2024. Of course, there’s no excuse for those who stayed home.
Your disdain for Americans is bizarre to me… it’s not easy here for any of us anymore. We wake up every day to a struggling economy, a broken healthcare system, gun violence and more. We’re doing all we can. It feels like a drop in a bucket. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it’s more and sometimes we just need to believe that it’s more.
What are you doing to overthrow your crooked government and the injustices it has caused? Shall I condemn you for the nation you were born into?
This. It’s easy for these people to talk smack when they live as comfortably as they do. The US populace is mostly in survival mode right now. A lot of us are doing what we can. I suspect a lot of these posts are bots or agent provocateurs anyhow.
You know Britain practically invented gunboat diplomacy…
Installing the Shah of Iran (oil, duh), Vietnam, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Iraq, Afghanistan…….Venezuela. Next?
Is it open season on foreign nations kidnapping dictators? I’ve got one who’s ripe for the taking. Who wants him?
Seriously. Holy hell this nightmare feels never ending,
@ BRIT … same. Everything you wrote.
As I rightly call out the old British Empire (as the largest coloniser) for its multiple acts of colonial atrocities. The ramifications of which are still felt 100 years after the Empire fell in 1919 or in some cases, 1947 & 1948.
I can’t help but notice America is the current Imperial Empire
When Trump says Make America Great Again, I have to wonder … when, if ever, was it “great”
THIS!!
OK, Felon47 just set the precedent for kidnapping and deposing wannabe dictators who break the law….please, someone, come depose ours! Sick of his BS and illegal atrocities.
My first thought, too. OK, second thought. My first was just one of pure, unadulterated horror. What have we become?! But yes, come & get him! Charge him with whatever you want! Also, sentence him for those felonies he was convicted of.
What country is next for snatching a head of state and taking it over? Panama, Geeenland, Canada? The three I mentioned need to do wellness checks on their leaders. Maduro and his wife were charged with a 1934 firearms charge among other things. Maduro was a bad actor in governing Venezuela, but I think Trump did this to get the Epstein scandal and his handling the economy out of the US headlines, and to get Venezuela’s oil. The mid term elections are this year, the Republicans are looking to take a hit; and US oil companies are set to go in March to look at opportunities. This is Wag the Dog. Maduro’s perp walk is part of the spectacle to distract. I worry about Americans who are still in Venezuela who may be targeted because of this. The US’s reputation is truly tarnished and I’m ashamed as an American. Trump, Rubio, Hegseth and Bondi have earned an all expense paid trip to the Hague for war crimes IMO.
They are so many countries now on the Internet asking Trump to come see about their leaders,they are so fed up with corruption and all sorts that so many countries are begging Trump to do the same to their governments.
And they think Trump would overthrow their corrupt regimes and then leave them be? They are delusional. Trump is the most corrupt of all. Unfortunately, he also has the largest military force. If people around the world are viewing Trump as some sort of savior, white people in Pennsylvania are not our only problem.
At some point Canada will need nukes to ward off stupidity next door.
We are the terrible downstairs neighbors you wish would move.
Never forget that Ukraine got rid of their nuclear weapons for the promise of protection from Russia.
Sadly this. We will see the rise in nuclear proliferation due to the instability in the world.
Canada had the chance to develop these weapons post world war II and instead choose to join the burgenoning international order and rely on American security guarantees.
That is over now. Frankly, we can never trust America again. Sure we can cooperate with them for our benefit as all states do but the deep trust and integration was over the minute Trump opned up his mouth to spout his territorial ambitions. This is a reminder of how vulnerable we are sharing a border with a country with a huge military, weak governance and even weaker morals and a guillible public.
Right now, i’m worried about the Canadian Conservative leaders who are condoning this action. Maduro is a corrupt leader but that doesn’t give America the right to waltz in and then take over another countries government and resources. Trump is already making comments that indicate Colombia and Mexico could be next and he brought up Canada AGAIN this weekened.
The fact that American leaders and citizens haven’t attempted to staop this en masse is the height of irresponsibility.
Poilievre is a danger to Canadian sovereignty. Praising what orange monster did, especially in light of the threats made against Canadian sovereignty by that same orange monster, shows he will sell out the country.
The Venezuelans should be deciding their own country, not Americans.
And his wife was out there posting about Machado being a peace maker… yeah sure but she’s not going to get to run the country because of orange monster so doesn’t that look stupid.
As for nuclear capability, we have the tech and the materials to do it. Americans use our uranium. We need to cut them off now.
We absolutely need them and I hope the plans went underway after that idiotic ketamine fueled Signal chat where they couldn’t get their geography right but indicated they plan to attack us. They are a bunch of mediocre basic bitches who need to set up the rules so that they are on the 90 yard line when the starter gun goes off so they can “win” the race while telling the rest of us we lost it cause we’re inferior.
And deep down, they know they are garbage, so they build themselves up by playing war. Only it’s real war they are treating like some video game.
They are that loser who always talks about how he would have made it to the NHL but for his knee injury but who has always sucked and everyone in beer league knows it. Except instead of just annoying everyone at hockey they are kidnapping people off the street to show us they are important, they are bombing other nations to steal their resources and distract from the fact that they are pedophiles because they cannot let one fucking week go by without wreaking havoc and setting the world on fire.
The creepy losers from our high school now run the world and they are on a revenge rampage against all of us for not worshipping them and excusing their creepiness. They are pissed they will always be the uncool kids that everyone hates except other sociopathic jerks/pedos who identify with them.
Darn right this is a distraction from Epstein and the challenging economy (except for tech bros, that is).
Europe should be worried, esp Greenland – if he gets away with taking over Venezula by force he will try it with Greenland and he’s been banging on about taking it regardless of what the people or Denmark has to say.
He’s and his ‘people’ are playing things right out of Putin’s playbook. The US pulled this with Vietnam and look how that turned out.
He outright threatened Cuba and Mexico. Mexico! Our ally and neighbor. If he attacks a NATO country, will NATO invoke Article 5 against the US? We are so far into unchartered territory these days.
Any country with oil and/or rare earth minerals is on the agenda.
Or any with prime waterfront real estate that needs “redevelopment”
That should be uncharted territory. 🤪😜
Lets not forget about the comments he made about Gaza – how he wanted to see a Trump resort there or something to that effect.
All the talented, capable attorneys have left the DOJ. They can’t argue their way out of a wet paper bag. There was a time only the best of the best were hired to work for the DOJ but now they only hire those who barely graduated from law school who support the dementia ridden maniac. This administration has dumb down America.
I’m still trying to determine if this multi count indictment of Maduro and his wife is legitimate. Or is that an invented pretext? It wouldn’t matter of course. There are better ways of dealing with criminals like Maduro. Although those are not considered half as much fun by this regime. Very interesting 🤔 that Trump quickly threw the legitimate opposition in Venezuela under the bus. But it’s maddening that the media just laughed that off as Trump being Trump. “Oh, he says things that aren’t necessarily true. Haha!” They continue to normalize his psychopathy.
Any serious prosecution against Maduro would involve sending him to The Hague and not be under U.S. control. Yes he treated his people horribly, but a machine gun charge from 1934 against him and his wife is illegitimate. Orange ass is only doing this because he’s going to get paid for doing this. It’s mafia stuff.
This is all about how the oil companies are mad that Chavez took control of the infrastructure the companies built and couldn’t continue to profit from. That would be a civil lawsuit and not a criminal one.
The drug charges are American. Supposedly go back to the Biden administration.
My understanding was the drug charges happened in 2020 so that was orange 1.0.
But either way the drug charges are sketchy in terms of a legal basis.
Also by that same logic Canada should be coming after orange man for letting all the illegal guns cross the border.
He will not hand him over to the International Court of Justice; he wants show trials and to do business behind the scenes for himself and his friends.
He cannot “arrest” Maduro, who is not an American citizen. This would constitute kidnapping and abduction. I am by no means a supporter of the Venezuelan despot, but Maduro’s behaviour does not give Trump the right to kidnap this man and his wife and kill countless men, women and children. Why not kidnap the North Korean dictator? Or the Hungarian one? If the kidnapping is even true.
And Venezuela? It’s about Trump and his rich friends and their further enrichment. It’s about bombing a country, killing people, just like his bosom buddy Putin does. He finally wants to join the pantheon of dictators who have caused countless deaths and countless violations of the law.
My opinion on this: Go to hell!!!
And none of this will take away from the explosiveness or the attention surrounding the Epstein files. Quite the contrary. The world sees what you are doing, you devil.
Other than bringing maduro to The Hague, the U.S. has kidnapped him and his wife. He won’t be prosecuted for the bad stuff he’s done to his own people but for taking something from oil companies.
In addition to everything else, lots of people are stranded in the Caribbean right now because the airspace is closed.
I wonder if the inconvenienced rich people who took their holidays there will even say anything.
It’s a mix of reactions. On the one hand, immediate protest marches down my street. On the other, the Venezuelan community is breathing a sigh of relief. Other countries have been prodding the US for years to do something about Maduro and the US kind of has a long history of deposing dictators, not mention defending oil interests, but people are shocked by the Trump’s Godzilla brand of “doing something,” which is basically stomping around in anger and smashing everything.
Thank you. I despise Trump. But I have family and friends in Venezuela who are, indeed, very relieved about this. They are hardworking middle-class people who have been living in fear for years. The folks I communicated with yesterday and today say there’s a slight bit of optimism for the future.
The US wants to “lead” the country until it has taken revenge for the nationalisation of the oil fields in the mid-1970s and 2007 by exploiting Venezuela financially and taking advantage of it at every opportunity. At that time, foreign oil companies had to sell shares in oil production. That’s what this is all about – oil and the billions that can still be made from it. In my opinion, this has nothing to do with a dictator, drugs, a form of government or the country. Venezuela has a Nobel Prize winner who can lead the country better than MÖGA.
The Venezuelan people got played here. They are being told Maduro is the sole reason for their problems but his VP and cabinet are still there and outside of paying off orange ass, nothing will change.
The properly elected leader, will not get the chance to be the leader because she’s a woman and orange monster is mad she won the Nobel peace prize.
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People in other countries want the US to police the world—until they don’t. Then the American people are left holding the bag. And the cost. No thanks. Especially now when we have so many other problems. Any Venezuelans who are happy now, or just hopeful, are about to learn that Trump is only out for Trump.
Nobody wants you to police the world, most people consider the USA (and it’s been for yeas) a major threat to world peace.
Thinking the USA is the world’s police is an american fantasy.
The President boasted, under oath, that one of his victims enjoyed being raped. Invading Venezuela doesn’t change that.
This is what the Americas are and always have been, Indigenous conquest, colonialism, imperialism, enabling theft of all the resources.
Maduro/ perp walk/ show trial/ pardon
Where are the Epstein Files
When will Americans collectively get their heads out of their asses and stop electing these people? AND when will Americans start striking, protesting and marching through the streets asking why there’s never money for healthcare, education, American infrastructure, assistance for the needy in America, etc etc etc – BUT there’s always an endless supply of money for war.
???? We’ve been protesting & marching since this guy got elected the FIRST time! We don’t condone this! Most of us, anyway.
Protests in the US are a joke. If we were serious, we would be out there every week and they would be bigger.
After 7 years working for a multinational oil company and many years after that working in government intelligence, I can say it’s unlikely oil companies have signed on to this plan. The infrastructure in Venezuela is a toss-away, it will need to be rebuilt from scratch. No one is investing trillions in a foreign country that has previously expropriated those facilities without compensation. Also, Venezuela produces a heavy crude that requires specially built refineries. There are 2 outside of Venezuela and the internal ones are, like everything else there, falling to pieces; no one who lacks the proper refinery is going to purchase whatever is pulled out of the ground there. I stopped going to the country in 2009 because it was just too unsafe at that point, the place is falling apart and run by gangs. Just because they took Maduro doesn’t mean the Generals who are loyal to him, the Cuban operatives who are dependent on him, and the Venezuelan citizens who have some national pride, won’t fight an invasion. NO ONE with any sense or intelligence is getting heard by this President, he is setting a precedent of overarching unchecked Presidential power and we are becoming the Russia of the west. The stupendous short sightedness and stupidity of this action is remarkable.
RMS, you’re quite logical. The problem is that Trump & his Admin are not. I have no doubt that oil is only part of the equation. Trump wants the rare earth minerals. I’ve concluded that’s what his interest is in Canada, Greenland and Ukraine, too. He wants the US to get part of those minerals–and he will personally get a percentage. He has been getting grift from everything he’s done.
Let’s see what the Venezuelan people do. It’s their country, so they’ll have to decide whether they will let Trump decide who runs the country or they get someone who will actually work for them. Sounds like the US, huh.
It’s not about the oil itself; it’s about Venezuela’s pivoting away from petrodollars towards China and the BRICS axis. This is a warning shot, like the invasion of Iraq and the dismemberment of Libya, to any other country’s leader contemplating the same.
The Real Reason Why the US Overthrew Venezuela
And why it all started in China in November 2025
https://t.co/UZaluxlWdD
@Bisynaptic I agree that the petrodollar is a major part of whatever is going on here. What concerns me is: why is the Venezuelan VP now in Russia? Why was Putin notified two weeks ago when Congress wasn’t? Fiona Hill warned in 2019 Putin wanted Trump to take Venezuela so he could have Ukraine. I always try to follow the money and see what these monsters’ end game is. I still think Putin, the Felon, and Xi are trying to land grab here.
Why? Because Trump is a Russian asset.
Yes, of course he is Putin’s puppet. What I’m wondering is: Venezuela using the petrodollar again angers the BRICS countries, which include Russia and China. China seems angry, Russia tweeted about it, so why is Putin okay with this. I’m afraid of some horrible deal between them. His first impeachment was over aide to Ukraine. We all know the Felon can’t think of any of this on his own.
Someone with sense.
+1
And yet Trump made it clear a few months ago that he was not going to renew the visas of people from Venezuela who came on refugee status because the country ( according to him) was completely safe to return to?
Trump is now renewing rhetoric on Greenland. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/04/greenland-trump-venezuela/88018306007/ He is threatening the acting president of Venezuela.
I found this to be a very helpful explainer of our current moment.
https://kasperbenjamin.substack.com/p/the-real-reason-why-the-us-overthrew
It’s not just about control of the oil, it’s about petrodollars and what happens when/if the dollar ceases to be the world’s reserve currency.
Fascinating.
Thanks for sending the link. Very interesting, and reliably footnoted.