Syriana (2005)
The closest any major film has come to dramatizing how the US maintains dollar hegemony through Gulf state manipulation.
Based on Bob Baer’s CIA memoir. The genius of this film is that it never explains the system cleanly — because the system isn’t clean. You have to piece together who’s moving what and why, just like the real analysts do.
The assassination subplot mirrors real regime change operations designed to keep oil priced in dollars and flowing through US-aligned channels
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**”Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. We have laws against it [corruption] precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win.”**