🚨 Do you understand what happened in the last 72 hours..
— 🇦🇪 Faisal Al Ketbi فيصل الكتبي (@luiz_vidal) April 30, 2026
> the UAE quietly opened a sovereign dollar swap line with the US Treasury.. days before any cartel news broke.. nobody on Bloomberg connected the timing..
> Abu Dhabi formally announced it is leaving OPEC after 58… pic.twitter.com/uKquaKsKHI
🚨 Do you understand what happened in the last 72 hours..
> the UAE quietly opened a sovereign dollar swap line with the US Treasury.. days before any cartel news broke.. nobody on Bloomberg connected the timing..
> Abu Dhabi formally announced it is leaving OPEC after 58 years.. the first major Gulf producer to walk out since the cartel was founded in 1960..
> the UAE was sitting on $93,000,000,000 of spare oil capacity it was never allowed to pump because Saudi-driven OPEC quotas kept getting in the way..
> Saudi Arabia issued a 90-word statement saying the cartel "remains strong" and never mentioned the UAE by name.. silence speaks louder..
> the trigger nobody is talking about: Iranian missiles hit UAE cities and Saudi Arabia stayed publicly silent.. Abu Dhabi remembered..
> Russia loses its only multilateral lever over oil prices at exactly the moment it is bankrolling Iran's war and bleeding petrodollars on Ukraine..
> Trump's administration has been openly courting Gulf producers one by one.. cheap oil before the midterms is now official US policy..
> Qatar walked in 2019.. Ecuador walked in 2020.. Angola walked in 2024.. UAE walked in 2026.. four major exits in seven years.. zero new members..
every single move on this list points the same direction.. Washington just dismantled the cartel that quadrupled oil prices in 1973.. and didn't fire a single shot..
all of this.. one week..
OPEC didn't collapse.. it got bought one Gulf state at a time..
if you're not following me you're finding out about this 48 hours late from someone who read my post..
it's only getting crazier from here..
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