🇺🇲 A major fire at the Marathon Petroleum refinery in Garyville, Louisiana. Residents have been evacuated within a radius of 1.5 km.

No casualties were reported, and experts are monitoring air quality due to the oil spill.

🇨🇳🇸🇦🇺🇸 What do you think is the US dollar backed by?

Saudi oil.

That was the birth of Petrodollar in the 1970s.

Now, Saudi Arabia trades 3x as much with China as with the US.

Thus, BRICS membership paves the way for Petroyuan!

Without commodities traded in USD, the global reserve currency status dies.

And thus the end of American unipolar hegemony.

- S.L. Kanthan

🇸🇦🇺🇸 The Untold Story Behind Saudi Arabia’s 41-Year U.S. Debt Secret

Officially, Simon’s two-week trip was billed as a tour of economic diplomacy across Europe and the Middle East, full of the customary meet-and-greets and evening banquets. But the real mission, kept in strict confidence within President Richard Nixon’s inner circle, would take place during a four-day layover in the coastal city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The goal: neutralize crude oil as an economic weapon and find a way to persuade a hostile kingdom to finance America’s widening deficit with its newfound petrodollar wealth. And according to Parsky, Nixon made clear there was simply no coming back empty-handed. Failure would not only jeopardize America’s financial health but could also give the Soviet Union an opening to make further inroads into the Arab world.

- Bloomberg

🇸🇦 🇨🇳 💵 U.S. pressures Saudi Arabia to sell oil in dollars, not Chinese yuan, amid Israel negotiations

The United States is negotiating behind the scenes with Saudi Arabia, pressuring the country to keep selling its oil in dollars.

Washington is concerned that Riyadh may price its crude in other currencies, particularly China’s renminbi.

Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s top three oil producers. Since the 1970s, Riyadh has agreed to sell its crude in dollars, helping maintain the greenback’s hegemonic status as the global reserve currency.

https://mronline.org/2023/08/14/u-s-pressures-saudi-arabia-to-sell-oil-in-dollars-not-chinese-yuan-amid-israel-negotiations/

🇺🇸⚡️ American rapper Chief Keef has thrown his support behind former President Trump amid the latter’s arrest by Georgia State authorities involving his case related to the 2020 election.

Chief Keef is a well known member of one of Chicago’s toughest gangs (O Block), and his endorsement suggests the mobilization of supporters by the former President might be reaching a militant stage.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡An attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist UAV attack on objects on the territory of Moscow and the Moscow Region has been thwarted - Ministry of Defense.

By means of air defense, the drone was destroyed over the territory of the Istra district of the Moscow region.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 A video of Ukrainian infantry in the first person. The last frames show the hit of the VOG from the AGS right under the feet of one soldier

🇷🇺 The FSB detained in Crimea six members of a cell of the international terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir

🇷🇺 Russia conducted successful field tests of a laser gun, it destroyed several drones of various types - media

🇺🇦❗️ In Ukraine, most likely, there will be an additional conscription into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov.

To the last Ukrainian 😁

🇷🇺🇺🇦 An FPV drone strike on a Ukrainian armored personnel carrier in the Zaporozhye direction.

🇺🇦🇷🇺❗️ Armed Forces of Ukraine from a drone dropped an explosive device on a civilian in Shchetinovka, Belgorod Region - the man died from his injuries

The Ukrainian army dropped an explosive device from a UAV when a man was at his summer cottage mowing grass, Governor of the Belgorod Region Gladkov said.

A local resident from the village of Shchetinovka received shrapnel wounds that were incompatible with life.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The destruction of the French wheeled self-propelled guns CAESAR by the kamikaze drone "Lancet" in the Yuzhnodonetsk direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destruction of the trench with the Ukrainian infantry by FPV-drone. One of the soldiers fired back to the last, but missed. But the UAV hit.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Air strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces on Ukrainian positions in the Kherson region

🇸🇩 A strong explosion occurred in the center of Sudan's capital , local sources say.