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@cjd@pkteerium.xyz @ReadyKilowatt@noauthority.social @bonifartius@noauthority.social You should define "petrodollar thing" since the original one is dead, but I'll take it to mean "oil priced in dollars." Your examples are mixed at best. Saddam was a bleeding wound (remember the no-fly zones), unfinished business, and necessary because he tried to kill an ex-US President (even Clinton eventually got a clue about that). I also think we were fooled about him and WMD in part because he was fooled by underlings who pocketed the money while claiming to run current WMD programs. Gaddafi I don't have an informed opinion on, the miasma of Hillary's and general Clinton atavism (bombing of Serbia for example) makes that hard. But you'd also want to ask why so much of Europe joined in the effort. But either example falls far short of your original claim, you're moving the goal post from oil to the dollar as geopolitical leverage. Best you can say there is smashing Libya has increased the price of oil at times when things get extra unstable there, and maybe in general. Has Iraq's output changed much? Libya's I assume due to under-investment, but I haven't checked.