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**TLDR:** Demand a permanent swap line and use it instead of your oil money to buy U.S. assets.
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Are you a GCC country? Has your primary geo-strategic protector, the U.S. of A, recently gone crazy town banana pants and gotten your oil revenue shut down and your infrastructure blown up? And now you're selling all your USD to protect your currency? You want to end the relationship - but you don't know how? Well, this is the guide for you.
Now, I know what you're thinking. Like a battered wife, you think there is no escape. As soon as you sell one U.S. treasury, the moment you price one barrel of oil in Yuan - there is going to be a U.S. debt crisis and all those precious reserves of yours will be worth less than a Haitian BRH bond. Not to mention how angry the U.S. would get - no more THAADs and Patriots for you!
So maybe, you think, it's better to just keep recycling that oil money back into U.S. assets. Trump can't last that much longer. Maybe the U.S. will learn to chill again - just like the good ol days. Remember how charming he used to be... that winning smile... He doesn't mean to get angry, he's just stressed...
SNAP OUT OF IT!
No - you need to leave. And the good news is that there's a way.
**Step 1**
Go to the IMF spring meetings and meet with Scott Bessent. Make sure you wear your nicest thawb. Suit would be better - US officials love suits. But a nice thawb is fine. Just don't wear military cams. Drives em nuts.
At those meetings, request a USD swap line from the treasury. They'll refuse of course. They'll point out how you have a mountain of USD and USD denominated assets, so a swap line isn't needed. All the while saying how much they respect you and value you as an ally. Cute little GCC vassal. They might pat you on the head.

So you proceed to step 2.
**Step 2**
Make a public announcement that if you start to run out of USD with which to defend your currency you might start pricing oil in Yuan. It's a just in case thing. You love the dollar system, you really do. But y'know... a girl's gotta do... If only there was a facility that could help?
At the same time, back channel to U.S. that you want the swap line to be permanent. To sweeten the deal, offer to quit OPEC. That little coterie is holding you back anyway.
Wait.

In 72 hours Bessent will be in front of congress talking about the swap line requests from their GCC partners, extolling it as a great opportunity to extend the reach of the USD system. The petrodollar will look stronger than ever.
A few days later and you announce your break from OPEC and everyone will think you are doubling down on the U.S. alliance.
**Step 3**
Wait some more. Play it cool... Use that swap line to keep your currency stable, just like you said.

Sure, a few commentators will wonder what a U.S. treasury swap line is for. After all, you have way more assets than that can give you. A few more will notice the incoming Fed chair Warsh mention to congress that Fed independence doesn't extend to international finance. And some might even suspect that this will be a sneaky bailout of U.S. debt by the Fed when Warsh assumes control. But don't worry - that'll only be people like Yanis Varoufakis and no one listens to him.
But NO ONE will suspect what you're going to do next.
**Step 4**

Wait until the strait reopens and no one is paying attention to you anymore, and maybe wait for some drama to really fill the news cycle, like Trump renditioning the pope to face trial for blasphemy... whatever.
Now, the 9D chess move. The war is over, but you still got that sweet swap line. So you quietly start using it to buy U.S. debt and other U.S. assets instead of your oil money. You're paying 50 basis points for the swap and earning 4% on the interest. Easy money.
Your oil money? Now you spend it anywhere but the U.S. Wherever you want. You're free baby. I hear Africa still lets folk exploit it for resources. Australia too, that Albo so scared! Doesn't matter. What matters is that it'll be years before the market starts to cotton on. And by that stage you'll be flush enough to go full Thelma and Louise, but without the cliff dive.
**Conclusion**
Too good to be true? Why would the U.S. agree to this? Because they're screwed and they know it. They've been hoovering up the cocaine with Weinstein and Epstein and you got the photos. They won't risk their debt markets through the loss of GCC USD recycling. Your deal gives them the time they need to outlast the Iranians.
So go for it girl. You got this.

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