Eastern Nations Break Dollar Chokehold on Commodities
The traditional control of global commodity prices by Western powers is weakening due to the actions of Eastern central banks and nations like Russia. For decades, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) and New York Commodities Exchange (COMEX) paper markets manipulated gold prices, but a change began in 2025 when Eastern nations started buying physical gold instead of trading paper contracts.
As a result, gold broke free from its suppression cage and revalued upward. A similar trend is emerging in the energy sector, with oil producers like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran, and Russia bypassing the US dollar-denominated pricing screens by selling crude directly to China, India, and other nations.
The US has depleted its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to artificially suppress prices, but this reserve cannot be refilled with digital dollars. The Western world is facing an existential physical inventory cliff in commodities like uranium, palladium, platinum, and natural gas.