The dollar rose to a two week high as Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia and pipeline shutdowns pushed Brent crude up 3% to $108. 🇺🇸 This is what dollar dominance is actually for, and it's worth noticing while it's happening rather than taking it for granted. A Saudi pipeline gets hit, oil spikes, and money doesn't flee to gold or some crypto alternative, it flees straight into US Treasuries and the dollar, the same pattern that's repeated through every crisis for eighty years. That's not luck, it's the result of decades of American policy keeping the dollar the one asset the whole world trusts when everything else looks shaky, deep liquid Treasury markets, the Fed's credibility, and a legal system investors bet on even when they don't like Washington's politics. Every dollar that moves into Treasuries this week is a foreign investor choosing to fund the American government over every other option on the table. That's leverage no tariff negotiation could buy.