Originally posted by another user
We all know that the USA had the gold standard. In 1971, Nixon took the USA off the gold standard completely as it became clear to other countries that the US dollar was being printed by the federal reserve which meant that they were printing far more money than they had in gold. In response, countries started asking for their gold back, causing a rapid decline of the US dollar. By 1975, the USA had effectively established the petrodollar. Every member of OPEC agreed to trade oil for US dollars only, with the USA granting them military protection. Basically other countries would now have to export to the USA, while getting paper money from the USA in return, as the OPEC nations would not accept anything else. This made the USA very rich and was practically the largest con in history.
You can imagine that because of this, during the Cold War era leading into modern times, the USA was able to use the petrodollar to outspend every other countries military expenditures combined. They then invaded Iraq, destroying most of their land and put into place sanctions that made it nearly impossible to rebuild, and it is estimated that over 500,000 children were killed as a cause of this, many more if you factor in adults as well.
Fast forward a bit, and Iraq started to only accept Euros for oil, and not dollars. This was clearly and obviously an attack on the USA, and as you can imagine this caused the huge outbreak of a "possible WMD" reports by the media projected for by the government. As you can imagine they invaded Iraq, and took their oil and made it again so that countries must only use the US dollar to buy oil from Iraq, which didn't make much sense as the Euro would yield higher profits. It was clearly to sustain the petrodollar.
We now have the huge media propaganda of Iran and a so called nuclear weapon, as well as how Iran is making deals with Russia and accepting gold and other payment methods for its oil. Syria and Iran are very close allies, and have many defensive pacts, which is why you are currently seeing how the USA and NATO have helped in the de-stabilization of Syria in attempt to intervene. It's clear that if a few countries start selling oil in other currencies, the US dollar will collapse.
Iran is also close friends with the Russians and the Chinese. They realize that if the USA launches an invasion on Iran, then there will be no way to avoid the US dollar for oil trading, other than war.
This is practically set in stone at this point, the only way to stop this conflict from ever carrying out in the future is for the public to start to fight back. We are already in a intellectual revolution, as the mindset of people start to change and understand exactly what is going on. It's going to take a long time, but looking towards the government to save us is extremely naive. The government will not save us, as it is corrupt to the core with cronies. The federal reserve stands to lose the most if the dollar falls, and they are willing to pull the strings to start WW3 in order to save their precious paper currencies.