Dollar Weaponization Spurs Dedollarization
Repeated US capture of adversary states' revenue through the dollar system demonstrates its coercive power while giving those states and their partners a growing incentive to build payment channels outside it.
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Washington holds about $13B of Venezuela's oil money and has given diverging accounts of where it goes, raising questions about how sanctioned revenue is controlled, per the edition. A concrete instance of the US capturing an adversary's dollar revenue both demonstrates the system's coercive power and sharpens incentives to build channels outside it.
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Supporting · July 22, 2026
US Holds About $13 Billion of Venezuela's Oil Money With No Clear Account of Where It Goes
Washington holds about $13B of Venezuela's oil money and has given diverging accounts of where it goes, raising questions about how sanctioned revenue is controlled, per the edition. A concrete instance of the US capturing an adversary's dollar revenue both demonstrates the system's coercive power and sharpens incentives to build channels outside it.
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