{"id":155354,"date":"2026-03-26T17:25:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=155354"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:25:54","slug":"its-the-petrodollar-stupid-covid-19-redux-masks-of-neutrality-and-the-rise-of-the-petroyuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/03\/26\/its-the-petrodollar-stupid-covid-19-redux-masks-of-neutrality-and-the-rise-of-the-petroyuan\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the Petrodollar, Stupid! Covid-19 Redux, Masks of Neutrality, and the Rise of the Petroyuan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

PART 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond the Psy-Op:<\/strong> Saving the \u2018Exorbitantly Privileged\u2019 Petrodollar and Disaster Capitalism<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Back in 2020, the Covid-19 Emergency\u201d was staged primarily to lockdown and meltdown the Global South\u2019s emerging economies in the Asian 21st<\/sup> Century\u2019 and to make Euro-America great again. The BRICS emerging economies were set to beat the G7 traditional Euro-America plus economies that year \u2013 2020. Fear, anxiety and panic were a psychological operation to keep the public distracted and ignorant about the Geopolitical Economic Big Picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disinformation, panic, confusion, fear and anxiety about worse to come\u201d in the future narrows one\u2019s field of vision and muddies the Geopolitical Economic Big Picture. During the Covid-19 Panicdemic, images of the lab-made Coronavirus in the form of a red wreaking-ball were used for lockdowns and distracted from\u2018plausibly deniable\u2019 biowarfare. Fear and panic about of virus were used to mask hybrid warfare on emerging economies of the Global South and the Rise of Asia and enable disaster capitalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recall the massive and costly purchase of deadly mRNA injections developed at warped speed during the panicdemic with an Emergency face mask? The militarized mass injection of populations promoted by the World Health Organization following a health Emergency declaration violated of core Human Rights principles such as the right to bodily autonomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time images of war blown up oil and gas fields in the Middle East magnified in the international corporate and social media echo chamber for selective truth suggest another psychological operation playing fear and anxiety to dim lateral and critical thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epic Fury is all about the Petrodollar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time the global supply chain shock, code named \u2018Epic Fury\u2019 involves both hybrid and kinetic warfare. The crisis is not caused by a lab made Coronavirus. Rather it has been triggered by another United States \u2018excursion\u2019: Fresh from his Venezuela oil-grab Donald Trump has launched operation \u2018Epic fury\u2019 to cease Iran\u2019s Oil wealth and shore up the Petrodollar, and its global reserve currency status while crashing Asian economies to make America Great Again (MAGA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The oil-backed \u2018exorbitantly privileged\u201d US dollar is overdue for a Sovereign Default given a massive $38 trillion debt and counting, and an equally unsustainable Debt to GDP ratio. Thus, the Federal Reserve Bank is also holding interest rates steady and Gold prices are sliding at this time. At the end of the day \u2018all wars are Bankers wars\u2019!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talk about Iran having nuclear weapons is a ruse for regime change to enable another US oil grab in Iran and control of Indian Ocean energy trade routes to Make America Great Again (MAGA) appear to be the Endgame to save the Petrodollar, en route<\/em> to China the real superpower that needs taking down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, China is sitting quietly at the other end of the Indian Ocean World, watching Trump\u2019s latest excursion with his war secretary, Pete Hegseth, who clearly loves playing war games with war toys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in March 2020, the lab made virus and vaccine enabled lockdowns so big pharmaceutical corporations like Pfizer, Moderna and China\u2019s Sino Pharm make bigger profits aided by the World Health Organization (WHO), which they fund. The name of the game was \u2018Disaster capitalism\u2019 and including price gouging for corporate profit and transfer of wealth from the Global South to Euro-America.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cross-messaging, disinformation, confusion and fear were used to turned science on its head and legitimize militarized mass injection of populations with deadly mRNA shots amid economic lockdown and melt down. The operation by the World Health Organization\u2019s panicdemic messaging violated core human rights principles such as an individual\u2019s right to bodily autonomy. This time the United Nations is missing in action as a Third World war ramps up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Petro Dollar to Petro Yuan? The Weaponization of Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The risk of frigid weather and energy demand spikes are at a low ebb in Euro-America as spring approaches. This has clearly emboldened US President Donald Trump, fresh from his grab of Venezuela\u2019s oil wealth, to launch an \u2018excursion\u2019 to capture Iran\u2019s oil and gas and control energy shipping lanes that pass through the Straits of Hormuz across the Indian Ocean \u2013 the world\u2019s energy trade Superhighway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Donald Trump\u2019s environment despoiling \u2018Epic Fury\u2019 bombing of Iran and invasion of the Indian Ocean World with the US war machine\u2019s aircraft carriers, frigates, submarines, etc. fundamentally to control global oil, related supply chains, and energy shipping lanes if possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the oil war is wrapped up and sold as a struggle for the survival of the Zionist State of Israel backed by US Christian Zionists, against Islamist terror. Religion\/s have been weaponized to the hilt with distracting Culture Wars ramped up everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March seems to be the preferred month for Globalist \u2018excursions\u2019 to crash economies in the Global South and make America great again (MAGA). Energy supply shocks inevitably destabilize countries. Trump and his war advisors had planned for a Venezuela like excursion in Iran but have been rudely shocked. As war drags into a third week, soaring oil prices in the US indicated the Trump\u2019s plan for rapid fire regime Iran had back-fired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this time, Trump\u2019s big achievement seems to be driving a global shift from the Petrodollar to the Petro Yuan with Iran controlling the Straits of Hormuz where 20 percent of global oil flows and only letting ships from friendly countries (i.e. those that do not use the Petrodollar), pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Trump the \u2018art of the deal\u2019 is actually a zero sum game. Indeed, his approach resembles what seems increasingly to be an all American (GOP and Dems) motto: heads I win, tails you lose.\u201d But Iran has made Trump pay for his epic excursion with blood, treasure and reputation damage. The Plan has backfired and morphed into Blowback?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuba, strangled by Trumps Secretary for State Marco Rubio, who has immigrant roots in that very island which has been forever in the cross hairs of the US and its Monroe Doctrine, shows the extent to which immigration and Diasporas (from everywhere and particularly India), are used and weaponized to strangle even their homelands in order to serve  the \u2018land of the free and home of the brave\u2019 and Make America Great Again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Covid-19 to Epic Fury: Where is the United Nations?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the IMF advisors on energy sector reforms, during the Covid-19 Shock Doctrine to Make the Economy Scream as Naomi Klein termed it, the UN and its agencies, played a remarkable role promoting a global lockdown to crash economies. Indeed, lockdowns and injection of populations with dubious mRNA \u2018vaccines\u2019 were led by the WHO with other United Nations (UN) agencies like UNICEF, funded by the Gates Foundation and Big Pharmaceutical companies that profited from deadly mRNA injections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, in the current crisis caused by the US aggression against Iran and invasion of the Indian Ocean World the UN has been remarkably silent. Has the UN fully abandoning its primary mandate to keep World Peace and Security, preferring to promote climate crisis disinformation?  Secretary General Antonio Guterrez, who rarely mentions militarization and war as the single biggest environmental pollution on the planet seems to have passed the buck to UN member states saying that he is powerless and impotent to broker world peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has Secretary General Antonio Guterrez abdicated his primary mandate to maintain international peace and security for climate disinformation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be that as it may, it is clear that the NPP regime of President Anura Kumara Dissanayaka which wears a mask of neutrality to suit his US backers must pivot to Sri Lanka\u2019s Asian neighbourhood in the Asian 21st<\/sup> Century and put the interests and economy of Sri Lankan citizens and the national economy first, rather than dance to Washington Consensus tunes, turns, and sanctions. Sri Lanka must pursue an energy policy to de-dollarize and exit US-dollar, Eurobond debt neocolonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[i]<\/a> https:\/\/indepthnews.net\/the-covid-endgame-and-digital-colonialism-cyber-war-simulacra-in-an-upside-down-world\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ii]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/03\/24\/sri-lanka-fuel-price-hike-in-a-month-among-the-worlds-highest\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[iii]<\/a> https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/breaking-news\/Sri-Lanka-lacks-storage-facilities-for-excess-fuel-shipments-for-April\/108-335879<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[iv]<\/a> https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/print\/main_image\/Sri-Lanka-turns-to-American-gas-for-cooking\/346-335529<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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