Petrodollar system
Subject in Politics
Petrodollar system has come up in 5 episodes across 4 podcasts in TMT, including The Tucker Carlson Show, The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, Digital Social Hour. 4 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Jiang XueqinYale-educated geopolitical analyst and commentator known for forecasts about global conflict and the decline of American hegemony
Jiang predicts that if oil flows stop, the petrodollar financing system could collapse within months.
“So we will see a cascading effect where maybe in a few months' time, the system collapses”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Professor Jiang: Three Predictions On the Collapse of the World Order (Sep 14, 2026) · Listen from 21:22
Stew PetersAmerican far-right online broadcaster and documentary filmmaker, former bounty hunter
Peters claimed that tankers have only cleared the Strait of Hormuz by trading in Chinese yuan instead of dollars.
“the only vessels, commercial transport oil tanker type vessels that have successfully cleared have been able to do so only when they change out the petrodollar for the Chinese yuan”
Digital Social Hour: Charlie Kirked Turned Down $1 Billion, Now He's Dead & TPUSA Has the Money | DSH #1966 (May 15, 2026) · Listen from 27:39
Alastair CrookeFormer British MI6 officer and director of Conflicts Forum
Crooke says Iran aims to use control of Hormuz to shift the Gulf away from the petrodollar and Wall Street's sphere.
“to change the region away from being a petrodollar region, away from it being, if you like, part of the... economic um the economic sphere of wall street”
The Tucker Carlson Show: BREAKING: Netanyahu’s Terror Attack on Lebanon Destroys Trump’s Ceasefire. Tucker Reacts. (Apr 9, 2026) · Listen from 1:14:32
Joe KentFormer U.S. official who resigned and disputed stated motives for the Iran conflict
Kent argues the war threatens the petrodollar because Gulf states' security guarantees have proven worthless and Iran can force transactions into other currencies.
“So how long do we expect them to continue to settle their transactions in the dollar? So the ramifications of this conflict, I think, are massive”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #291 Joe Kent - His Message to President Trump on Ending the War With Iran (Mar 26, 2026) · Listen from 43:13
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- The Tucker Carlson Show · 2 episodes
- The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 1 episode
- Digital Social Hour · 1 episode
- The Shawn Ryan Show · 1 episode
Episodes
Professor Jiang: Three Predictions On the Collapse of the World OrderThe Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Sep 14, 2026 · 1 h 48 min
Geopolitical analyst Jiang Xueqin tells Steven Bartlett the petrodollar order is collapsing and offers predictions about war, finance and migration.
Shawn Ryan: Trump’s Betrayal, Iran, Government Spying, Encounters With Demons, and Finding GodThe Tucker Carlson Show · Jul 24, 2026 · 1 h 54 min
Tucker Carlson talks with podcaster and former Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan about his disillusionment with politics, a harrowing ibogaine experience, spiritual conversion, surveillance, and the Iran war.
Charlie Kirked Turned Down $1 Billion, Now He's Dead & TPUSA Has the Money | DSH #1966Digital Social Hour · May 15, 2026 · 1 h 7 min
Sean Kelly interviews broadcaster Stew Peters, who advanced unsubstantiated conspiracy claims about Charlie Kirk's assassination, Turning Point USA, Israel, the Iran war, COVID and media censorship.
BREAKING: Netanyahu’s Terror Attack on Lebanon Destroys Trump’s Ceasefire. Tucker Reacts.The Tucker Carlson Show · Apr 9, 2026 · 2 h 24 min
Tucker Carlson argues Israel's strikes on Beirut undermined Trump's Iran ceasefire, then interviews Alastair Crooke on Iran's resilience, Hormuz leverage and the war's likely course.
#291 Joe Kent - His Message to President Trump on Ending the War With IranThe Shawn Ryan Show · Mar 26, 2026 · 2 h 3 min
Joe Kent explains to Shawn Ryan why he resigned as NCTC director over the U.S. war with Iran and Israeli influence on Trump.