Brandon Aceto
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2,197 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 3 Jun
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As you saw, they said we want oil $100 a barrel.
Well, oil goes $65 a barrel.
So much for your vaunted power to do the price of oil.
And the swap line, the crucial thing that it's doing is the UAE pegs its currency to dollars.
So if you're going to peg your currency to dollars every now and then, people say, hey, I want my dollars, and you need that temporary liquidity to support the currency.
That's the major feature of what's going on.
I like people pegging to the dollar.
So it's a fairly minor issue, though.
That explains so much because we've been asking what gives NATO the audacity to do these things and to say things are straight up against the Trump administration.
But, yeah, I had no idea that they slipped that in there.
It's like, where does the leverage come from?
He almost has to get creative and find another way to, I guess, not give them money or not give them support instead of straight up leaving.
Or you create parallel structures.
You say, okay, we're stuck in NATO, but we'll start to create another alliance over here and just hope NATO kind of goes away.
Right.
Which, again, I think that's the intent here.
The OPEC business in the UAE by itself is really not that significant.
Its significance is in it's an example of this realignment that's taking place.
So if you're the Trump administration and you think NATO is worthless,
but you can't get out of it, you've got to try something else.
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