All of this is about the protection of the petro Dollar. Nothing more or less.

With countries like China/India/Russia starting to trade in non US dollars this puts the US dollar at risk because once the Petro dollar is no longer king we got a whole lot of debt to worry about. As long as the Petro dollar is king nobody is going to rock the boat about our ridiculous printing of money (quantitive easing). They have too many dollars on their books to complain. And the Euro is tied directly to the dollar and both the EU and UK are busy printing up their own monies.