Indirectly, yes.

The only reason the dollar is as strong as it is, is primarily due to Saudi Arabia selling their oil using US dollars. Bypassing US dollars will lower demand for our currency and cause its relative value to go down simply because of lack of demand.

Oversupply has already been causing the value of our currency to diminish, as is clearly visible by inflation.

Gas is going to keep going up no matter what. There will always be a "reason" but ultimately it's because of the (((great jewset))).

In your post you wrote:

managed to coordinate their control except for North Korea.

I'd like to suggest to you the following theory:

North Korea is a buffer state. It exists by tacit agreement between china and america. Chinese launder bribes to american tech and weapons manufacturers by ordering NK to do missile launch. Ahead of this congressmen and manufacturers buy stock in these companies.

NK launches missiles. Media runs fear-porn. The stocks of manufacturers go up. Congress approves more defense spending. Everyone involved makes money on their investments. Everyone gets paid. The people given the tips ahead of time do whatever job they were bribed to do.

NK exists mostly as a chinese experiments lab, bribe launderer, and as a pylon of u.s. defense manufacturer's justifications for funding and existing.

Contrary to all intelligence chatter, u.s. officials spreading rumors, and news talk, on this basis we can say NK and south korea will probably never unify, at least not in the short or medium term (next ten years). There are some indicators to the contrary, which would tell us all sorts of useful things about u.s. relations to china and who truly own who, but until they come to pass, I'm not counting on it.

Start going back up? It's been going up up up for a year and a half around here!

Right now, we're still technically importing Russian oil, and oil is being depleted from the SPR. So gas prices are holding steady or going down a bit. But I think the deadline is this week to stop accepting Russian oil, but there's still a lot of oil in the SPR. Enough that they can keep dipping into for months or maybe years to keep up with demand and stabilize gas prices. I suspect they'll do this going into the election this fall, because no one cares about oil reserves, they just see the gas price at the pump.