Well, the United States regime-changed Libya and Iraq for similar reasons.

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For sure:

In 2000 Saddam Hussein announced his intention to take oil payments in Euros. Then the Iraq war happened in 2003.

In the mid 2000โ€™s Muammar Gaddafi announced plans for a gold backed currency for Africa. Then in 2011 he was killed in a NATO air strike.

2023 Putin and Xi move to replace the petrodollar with the Yuan. Thenโ€ฆ???

The difference being these two countries actually have nuclear weapons.