U.S.–Venezuela Conflict
The real reason behind escalating U.S. aggression toward Venezuela is neither Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarianism nor cocaine trafficking nor electoral legitimacy.
It is about the survival of the U.S. dollar itself.
At the center of this conflict lies a 50-year-old financial architecture that has sustained American global dominance since the Cold War: the petrodollar system. Venezuela did not merely challenge U.S. policy. It challenged the monetary foundation of American power.
U.S.–Venezuela Conflict
The real reason behind escalating U.S. aggression toward Venezuela is neither Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarianism nor cocaine trafficking nor electoral legitimacy.
It is about the survival of the U.S. dollar itself.
At the center of this conflict lies a 50-year-old financial architecture that has sustained American global dominance since the Cold War: the petrodollar system. Venezuela did not merely challenge U.S. policy. It challenged the monetary foundation of American power.