and (one of) the real reasons the US had Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein killed. The first for wanting to set up a gold-backed currency the second for announcing to want to use the Euro as his oil currency. Of course, the US would more than love to sink their teeth in China, Russia and Iran, for similar reasons but these nations tend to bite back hard. So indirect tactics have to be deployed. Result of which the world now can see in one case. Few bother to try and understand the underlying tectonics.