Oil-producing countries belonging to OPEC, such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, and Oman, have an agreement that they must use the U.S. dollar for crude oil transactions.
This is known as the “Petrodollar.” Since oil holds absolute value, value is created for the dollar required for its settlement. Through this credit creation, the U.S. dollar became the world’s reserve currency, allowing the United States to be the world leader.
Iran, a major oil producer, is under economic sanctions from the U.S., and approximately 90% of its oil is traded with Chinese Yuan. Independent Chinese refineries primarily purchase this inexpensive Iranian crude, some of which is exported through a tanker network known as the “shadow fleet.”
Iran’s export hub is Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf.
Currently, oil transactions are also being conducted in Yuan by countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Malaysia, Russia, and India. The reality is that the U.S. position as the world leader is being pushed back by the Yuan.
The reason the United States holds such power is that it can create infinite wealth through the “credit creation” of the dollar—simply by printing banknotes that cost almost nothing to produce, yet hold value and are used worldwide.
Since about 40% of this is being replaced by the Yuan—specifically by China through its “Belt and Road Initiative”—it means the U.S. has lost 40% of its conventional dollar share.
President Trump, along with Elon Musk, has been working to reduce fiscal spending to rescue the United States from a state of bankruptcy caused by the excess debt of U.S. Treasuries. Now, the focus has shifted to tariff measures to increase revenue. As a final touch, they must prevent the use of the Yuan in Iranian oil transactions.
To achieve this, the economic sanctions against Iran must be lifted. However, to do that, the original cause of the sanctions must be eliminated.
That cause is Iran’s nuclear development. If Iran possesses nuclear weapons, Israel will be under threat, and a nuclear war will inevitably break out. The U.S. must prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons at all costs to stop such a war.
In the unlikely event that the 4,000-year conflict between Israel and Iran is settled by nuclear war, both nations would vanish geographically and politically. The founding and development of the United States have been supported by Jewish people. The U.S. cannot allow Israel—the Jewish state established after World War II—to be destroyed.
Therefore, for the U.S. to “win” the conflict with Iran, U.S. dollars must be used for Iran’s oil transactions. This applies to Venezuelan oil as well, and originally, it should have applied to Russian oil too.
Whenever China buys crude oil from producing countries, the transactions must be in U.S. dollars; otherwise, the United States will not be able to remain the world leader.
Ultimately, the U.S. will face a direct confrontation with China, but it cannot win unless it first thoroughly drains China’s power. The war in Ukraine serves this purpose by weakening Russia, China’s greatest ally.
After Russia, Iran is next. Will the U.S. strip Iran of its nuclear capabilities, lift sanctions, and return oil transactions to the U.S. dollar? Or will it seize Kharg Island and take control of Iranian crude oil entirely? When either or both are accomplished, the U.S. will have “won” over Iran and will be able to contain China’s power.
The next target for the U.S., naturally, will be to defeat North Korea. The time to settle the Korean War has finally arrived. Of course, the U.S. aim is the annexation of North Korea by South Korea. With this, the encirclement of China—Russia, Iran, and North Korea—will be complete. Finally, the ultimate battle with China will involve drawing them into a “Taiwan contingency” using Japan.
Only when all of this is achieved will dollar supremacy be 100% complete, and a World Government Federation, with the United States as the world leader, will be established. This will replace the United Nations, functioning as the “world’s police,” and the entire world will share a World Government Constitution and laws. President Trump’s dream is for the U.S. dollar at that time to become the “TRUMP DOLLAR”, though in reality, it may become the IMF’s SDR.
In any case, the global common currency at that time must no longer be pegged to crude oil.
This is because the world’s energy demand must shift from fossil fuels and nuclear energy into the era of “Free Energy.”
So, what should the global common currency be pegged to then?
Will it be gold?
Will we return to the Gold Standard?
The recent rise in gold prices reflects the increasing possibility of this.
However, that alone will not completely change the concept of money.
When Artificial Intelligence, Transmutation, and Free Energy become a set, a new civilization will develop.
In that civilization, the concept of “money” will disappear, and along with it, the struggle for global power.
At that time, just like Rome, the United States will fade away, and permanent peace will come to the world.
The real question then will be the quality of human beings. If money disappears and the very concept of economic activity vanishes, people will not be able to live unless the meaning and purpose of human existence fundamentally change.
Ultimately, why are humans born? Why do we live?
Religions exist to answer these questions, but how will that inquiry finally be settled?
Will Judaism prevail? Or Islam? Or perhaps Evangelical Christianity? Or something else?
I believe religions will surely disappear, and only the wisdom of Buddhist, Hindu, and Shinto texts—the Buddhist sutras, the Vedas, and the Katakamuna—will remain eternally. Ultimately, I believe they are not religions to begin with.
*This article was originally written in Japanese on April 9, 2026.