{"id":55190,"date":"2026-01-19T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/?p=55190"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:13:12","slug":"us-dismantling-petrodollar-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/en\/magazine\/us-dismantling-petrodollar-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"The US: the dismantling of the petrodollar empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"component text\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n\n\n    <div class=\"row\">\n      <div class=\"col  col-lg-8  offset-lg-2\">\n        <h3><b>For decades, the dollar has been far more than a currency. It has been an architecture of power. A silent tool that has allowed the United States to finance chronic deficits, project global influence, and condition the foreign policy of half the world. But this system\u2014the petrodollar\u2014no longer rests exclusively on trust.<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, increasingly, the dollar is also sustained by coercion. And when a currency ceases to dominate because it is useful and begins to do so because it instills fear, <\/span><b>its fragility becomes structural<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To understand the present, one must return to the past. In 1971, President <\/span><b>Richard Nixon<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> unilaterally ended the gold standard. The dollar ceased to be convertible into precious metal and became a fiat currency. On the surface, a technical decision. In reality, a monetary earthquake with global consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The American response was as simple as it was brilliant: tying the dollar to oil. Through agreements with <\/span><b>OPEC<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and especially with <\/span><b>Saudi Arabia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, global crude oil began to be traded almost exclusively in dollars. <\/span><b>Any country that wanted energy first had to pass through the U.S. financial system<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And any surplus dollars ended up being recycled into U.S. public debt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, the petrodollar was born:<\/span><b> a system that allows the United States to import real goods in exchange for money created out of thin air<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, sustaining a growth model that no other economy could replicate without collapsing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>The exorbitant privilege<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For decades, this system worked because it was, quite simply, efficient. The dollar was liquid, stable, and widely accepted. I<\/span><b>t became the natural center of international trade and the primary store of value for governments, companies, and central banks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This hegemony did not need to be imposed by force: it was grounded in trust. This is what economists call soft power\u2014a subtle but extraordinarily effective form of domination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This privilege has allowed the United States to live for years beyond its means without paying an immediate price. <\/span><b>Structural trade deficits, rising debt, and sustained monetary expansion have not triggered a confidence crisis like the one any other economy would face<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Washington has been able to do this because the world has continued to demand dollars, driven by energy trade and the central role of its financial system. But every privilege generates abuses. <\/span><b>And every abuse, reactions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>From soft power to hard power<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the last two decades,<\/span><b> the dollar has ceased to be merely an economic tool and has become an instrument of geopolitical pressure<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Financial sanctions, the freezing of sovereign reserves, asset blockades, and the expulsion of countries from the international payments system have made it clear that the dollar system is not neutral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When some states have attempted to explore alternative ways to trade their energy resources outside the dollar, the cost has not always been economic. Often it has been political, diplomatic, or strategic. This is not about asserting a simple causality, but about identifying a pattern:<\/span><b> leaving the petrodollar system has cost<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s. And those costs are not always paid in the markets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When countries accumulate dollars because they are useful, the system is solid. When they do so because they fear the consequences of not doing it, the system becomes fragile.<\/span><b> This is where de-dollarization is born<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014not as an ideological rebellion, but as a defensive strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Monetary alternatives: cracking the monopoly<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this context, China emerges not as an immediate substitute for the United States, but as an architect of alternatives. Beijing does not seek to overthrow the existing order, but to crack it from within. Bilateral trade in yuan, the CIPS payment system\u2014an alternative to the SWIFT payment system\u2014the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and the New Silk Road <\/span><b>offer countries an option that until recently was unthinkable:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to trade, invest, and finance themselves without necessarily having to go through the dollar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This alternative is partial and imperfect, but sufficient to alter global incentives. When mid-level oil exporters\u2014from Africa, Central Asia, or Latin America\u2014identify paths toward monetary diversification, the strategic calculation changes. <\/span><b>Diversifying is not rebelling: it is protecting oneself<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Each energy contract outside the dollar is not a rupture, but it is a precedent. And precedents, when they accumulate, transform entire systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Europe and Mercosur: the third monetary axis<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a long time, Europe has been portrayed as a passive actor, subordinated to the American orbit. This reading, however, is beginning to fall short. The agreement between <\/span><b>the European Union and Mercosur marks a geostrategic turning point that goes beyond trade<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mercosur is not just a trade agreement: it is a monetary lever. For the first time in decades, <\/span><b>the EU consolidates a space of massive exchange of raw materials, energy, and industrial goods where transactions can be conducted in both dollars and euros<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It is not a frontal challenge to the petrodollar, but it is a significant crack in its monopoly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This places Europe in a new role: ambiguous but active. Without breaking with Washington or fully aligning with Beijing, the EU introduces a third axis\u2014<\/span><b>that of silent monetary competition<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Allowing part of the Global South\u2019s strategic trade to be denominated in euros is not a technical decision, but a profoundly political one. Europe does not become an alternative hegemonic power, but it ceases to be merely a spectator. In a multipolar world, offering options is already an exercise of power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Are we facing the end of the petrodollar?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking of the dismantling of the petrodollar is not speaking of an imminent collapse. The dollar will remain central for years. No other currency can replace it today in liquidity, market depth, and accumulated trust. <\/span><b>But one thing is centrality, and another, very different one, is uncontestability<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And it is the latter that is beginning to crack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The petrodollar system will not fall overnight. Monetary empires never do. <\/span><b>It will erode slowly, agreement by agreement, exception by exception, contract by contract<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. When the \u201cexceptional case\u201d repeats itself often enough, it ceases to be exceptional.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The uncomfortable question is inevitable: <\/span><b>what happens when a currency is maintained not by its economic strength, but by the fear generated by leaving it?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Monetary history is clear: when trust turns into coercion, the system enters a defensive phase. And sooner or later, someone dares to say enough. Not out of ideology, but out of necessity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For savers, for companies, and for small economies, this change of era is not a geopolitical abstraction. <\/span><b>It has direct consequences for inflation, interest rates, financial stability, and the preservation of wealth<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In this scenario, depending on a single currency, a single system, or a single center of power ceases to be a guarantee and becomes a risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understanding how the petrodollar system works is no longer an academic exercise. It is a tool for economic survival. At 11Onze we have long warned that<\/span><b> financial sovereignty begins with knowledge<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 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