{"id":612,"date":"2022-02-22T01:12:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T01:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/?p=612"},"modified":"2022-02-22T01:13:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T01:13:03","slug":"the-reason-the-us-wants-war-in-ukraine-is-ultimately-all-about-the-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/the-reason-the-us-wants-war-in-ukraine-is-ultimately-all-about-the-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"The reason the US wants war in Ukraine is ultimately all about the dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/620bb7a785f5401a211a0f83-2.jpg\" alt=\"The dollar\" class=\"wp-image-615\" width=\"352\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/620bb7a785f5401a211a0f83-2.jpg 540w, https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/620bb7a785f5401a211a0f83-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 85vw, 352px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who have followed my news feed for sometime, global financial issues aren&#8217;t anything new. But this article, in light of what is happening here in 2022 concerning Russia and Ukraine, is a good recap of global trends that have brought us to this point.  That includes justified criticism of the US&#8217;s abuse of the dollar as the current global reserve currency.  Very insightful, for the bewildered, to the background of ongoing international conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contemporary &#8220;Great Power&#8221; competition ultimately comes down to global financial control.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/549450-dollar-dominance-russia-invade-ukraine\/\">The reason the US wants war in Ukraine is ultimately all about the dollar<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n<hr>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=48&amp;l=ez&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=a6334bdd0b64486e6482a396b9d90adc&amp;t=salemsmailbox&amp;tracking_id=salemsmailbox\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who have followed my news feed for sometime, global financial issues aren&#8217;t anything new. But this article, in light of what is happening here in 2022 concerning Russia and Ukraine, is a good recap of global trends that have brought us to this point. That includes justified criticism of the US&#8217;s abuse of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/the-reason-the-us-wants-war-in-ukraine-is-ultimately-all-about-the-dollar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The reason the US wants war in Ukraine is ultimately all about the dollar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,12,20,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-ezekial-38-39","category-foreign-policy","category-news","category-russia","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}