Thread by @SenatorBrakey

Why do we fight wars for Saudi Arabia — in Yemen, Libya and Syria?
Why do we sell Saudi Arabia weapons?
Why do we ignore Saudi financing of 9/11?
Why do we stand by as the Saudi prince murders journalists?

...Because they have us over a barrel (of oil).

The “petrodollar” is an arrangement whereby Saudia Arabia only accepts US dollars in payment for oil.

This boosts international demand for the dollar, empowering the Federal Reserve to print trillions financing our national debt without significant price inflation.

If Saudi Arabia were to end the petrodollar, the US dollar’s status as the world reserve currency would be threatened — and our ability to finance our global empire would be threatened as well.

Through the petrodollar, Saudi Arabia — a tyrannical, Islamic monarchy — has our nation on a leash.

No one person is to blame. It began under FDR and continues to this day — but we can begin working to restore our independence.

To restore American independence, we cannot continue acting as a global empire. We cannot afford this and it does not benefit the American people.

We must stop indebting future generations with overspending and relying on foreign nations to finance it.

Some have challenged my assertion that Saudia Arabia financed the 9/11 attacks.

For a decade and a half, 28 pages of the 9/11 report were classified. We fought to declassify them in 2016, are they reveal intelligence implicating the Saudi government.

28pages.org/the-declassifi…