Kowtow to US or your people starve / For those interested in knowing how the Venezuela-USA oil money management would work if the U.S. is allowed to do what it wants. By Hussein Askary, Vice-Chairman of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden 屈服於美國，否則你的人民就得挨餓 / 對於那些有興趣了解，若美國獲准按其意願行事，委內瑞拉與美國之間的石油資金管理將如何運作的人來說——由瑞典一帶一路研究所副所長胡賽因·阿斯卡里撰文

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s96Cp_OVKA&t=1904s 👈

it is useful to look at what the U.S. has done in Iraq since 2003. U.S. companies did not take over oil fields in Iraq. They are not interested in production. Chinese, Russian, and Iraqi national companies are the largest producers of Iraqi oil.

What the U.S. does is that it takes every single dollar of Iraqi oil exported every day. The money is send by the buyers of Iraqi oil, including Chinese companies, to a bank account in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

The bank account is “protected” by the U.S. President since the signing of the Executive Order 13303 in May 2003 by President George W. Bush.

Every American president since then have renewed this signature under “national security emergency” pretext. This is how the U.S. controls Iraqi politics.

Last week, President Trump tweeted that he does not want Nouri Al-Maliki to become Prime Minister. Al-Maliki’s party and his coalition of Shia parties won the October 2025 elections which were recognized internationally with a landslide.

But the Iraqis must do what the U.S. President says, otherwise, the Iraqi people will starve next month as the U.S. Treasury will withhold the money from Iraq.

I explain this matter and other issues in West Asia related to U.S. policy, China, Belt and Road, and the Iran crisis in this interview:

對於那些有興趣了解，若美國獲准按其意願行事，委內瑞拉與美國之間的石油資金管理將如何運作的人來說——由瑞典一帶一路研究所副所長胡賽因·阿斯卡里撰文

觀察美國自2003年以來在伊拉克的行徑具有啟示意義。美國企業並未接管伊拉克的油田，他們對石油生產並不感興趣。中國、俄羅斯及伊拉克本國公司才是伊拉克石油的最大生產者。

美國的做法是：每日伊拉克出口石油所得的每一分錢，都會被匯入紐約聯邦儲備銀行的一個銀行帳戶——包括中國企業在內的伊拉克石油買家都必須將款項匯至此處。

該帳戶自2003年5月由喬治·W·布希總統簽署第13303號行政命令以來，就一直處於美國總統的「保護」之下。

此後歷任美國總統皆以「國家安全緊急狀態」為由延續這項簽署。這正是美國操控伊拉克政治的手段。

上週，川普總統發推文表明他不希望努里·馬利基出任總理。然而馬利基所屬政黨及其什葉派政黨聯盟在2025年10月獲得國際承認的大選中贏得壓倒性勝利。

但伊拉克人必須服從美國總統的指令，否則美國財政部下個月將扣押伊拉克的資金，導致伊拉克民眾面臨饑荒。

我在本次訪談中闡釋了此事，以及其他與美國政策、中國、一帶一路及伊朗危機相關的西亞局勢問題：