revolve around the fact that major US banks have a lot of highly leveraged money in US oil companies. Supposedly Russia is taking the opportunity (presented by the virus chaos) to drive down the price of oil to break those US banks, force bailouts and inflation in the US, and undermine the US Dollar's position as global reserve currency (which is key to how we were able to get through the last financial crisis).

It all sounds a little too "Putin scheme"-ey to take completely seriously, but the dynamics are very scary.