F. William Engdahl and Darin Wagner return. The underlying need for the U.S. and the NATO forces to engage in continuous wars is directly related to the need to maintain the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency. That's because since 1971 the dollar derives its value not from market forces but from U.S. geopolitical and military control used to force countries to pay for oil in dollars. But now, this counterfeiting process which provides a tremendous military and trade advantage to the U.S. is being challenged by China and Russia. How much longer can the petrodollar system remain? If i
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