USA ups piracy to maintain dollar hegemony: Medhurst

USA has ramped up piracy and sabotage to prop up dollar hegemony, journalist Richard Medhurst’s latest YouTube video explained.

“We are witnessing the transition of the United States from an empire into a pirate state,”  Medhurst says, describing what he calls the birth of a new petrogas dollar.

The Syrian-born British journalist lists several of the US’s “criminalities” to illustrate his point.

Medhurst is not the only one trying to popularise the USA as a pirate empire.

Cradle’s journalist Pepe Escobar also calls the US “the Empire of Piracy.”

Escobar said that Iran’s top military adviser dismissed any talks of Trump becoming the policeman of the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran has officially called the US’s move to blockade the Strait of Hormuz “piracy.”

South America and the Caribbean

Medhurst explains that under the guise of an anti-narcotics operation, the United States deployed a naval fleet to the Caribbean.

In South America, the kidnapping of President Maduro was “strategic.”

Medhurst says:

Half of Cuba’s energy grid was dependent on oil from Venezuela. Immediately after kidnapping Maduro and taking control of the oil, the United States cut Cuba off, plunging its power grid into darkness. This shows that capturing Venezuela’s oil wasn’t merely about corporate greed, but for strategic geopolitical purposes as a leverage, as a weapon to use for regime change [in Cuba]

Trump has said he could “do anything I want with it” when talking about Cuba.

US oil giants like Chevron and UK oil giants like BP and Shell are crawling over Venezuela since the kidnapping of its head of state, as The Canary reported.

USA vs Russia

Medhurst demonstrates the USA and NATO attacks on the Russian fleet.

He said:

During the last months, the United States and their allies began systematically hunting down Russian oil and gas ships, not just in the North Atlantic, but across the entire planet. Particularly after the war in Iran began, we’ve seen an uptick in Russian tankers and LNG ships being blown up or pirated all the way from the Caribbean to the North Atlantic to the Mediterranean to the Black Sea, Baltic Sea

In a post on X, he said NATO’s hands were full with piracy.

The UK has been assisting the USA in its endeavours.

Earlier this year, British armed forces assisted US troops in seizing an oil tanker, which American officials accused of breaking sanctions by carrying oil for Venezuela, Russia and Iran.

 The UK’s Ministry of Defence said on January 7:

The UK has provided enabling support to the United States at their request to interdict the vessel Bella 1 today,

This ship, with a nefarious history, is part of a Russian-Iranian axis of sanctions evasion which is fuelling terrorism, conflict, and misery from the Middle East to Ukraine

More recently, in late March, the BBC reported that the UK is now “ready to act” to board and detain Russian shadow fleet ships in its waters under the UK’s Sanctions and Money Laundering Act 2018.

West Asia & Indian Ocean

The US oil company Chevron is one of the main corporate beneficiaries of the Western campaign of destruction in West Asia, Medhurst says.

After the US-backed regime change in Syria, Medhurst said Chevron “wasted no time in moving on to Syria’s oil and gas.”

He says that the Board of Peace was “railroaded” through the United Nations Security Council to provide the legal cover for Washington’s colonial plan, giving Chevron access to Gaza’s resources. To make this point, he cites the gas deal Israel recently signed with Chevron.

The US State Department welcomed the deal, saying it would support “broader efforts to stabilize and rebuild Gaza.”

USA pressuring China

Medhurst argues that China is the ultimate target of this global energy piracy.

He says the US is crippling Venezuela, Russia and Iran, three of China’s top oil suppliers. The goal is to force Beijing to buy expensive American energy and prevent de-dollarisation.

China has repeatedly asserted Iran’s right to sovereignty as the US is trying to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, even though there is an alleged ceasefire till Monday!

Sovereignty is the antithesis of the Western-led hegemonic order, because with sovereignty, how can you make a country crawl with Chevron and Shell?

Featured image via MiddleEastMonitor

By The Canary

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