Netherlands pulls gold out of the US

Post by owebmaster » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 10:32 AM UTC

ericmay wrote: post #135

wazoox wrote: post #9

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England is definitely a European country. I'm tired of people constantly making this political abuse of language of conflating "the EU" with "Europe". (And yes, saying "America" for "US of A" annoys me too. First step towards losing an imperialist state of mind is letting people from Canada and Brazil be in America).

> (And yes, saying "America" for "US of A" annoys me too. First step towards losing an imperialist state of mind is letting people from Canada and Brazil be in America). Hmm, maybe I should be pro-imperialism. I’ll do that before calling a Brazilian, Canadian, or Mexican an American to satisfy the whims of the language police. But if you want to go to uni and call Americans United Statesians and fight a made up cultu…

Post by bitfilped » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 4:58 AM UTC

fmajid wrote: post #157

anon84873628 wrote: post #140

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Until you can buy oil without dollars. This was an explicit agreement called the Petrodollar system, which was premised on the US navy securing international trade. If the US navy proves unable to do that (and exhausts its arms and demonstrates unpreparedness for future conflicts) then the whole premise falls apart. You might also stop buying real estate if the government seems unstable and economy is poised to colla…

Or until you don't need to buy oil at all. China has reduced its consumption by 1.5M barrels/day this year alone.