In 2017 I wrote about a changing world, about the west’s demise as it’s outpaced by the east, BRICS and technology. As the west’s grip on resources, global narratives and even military might was slowly fading, so was the might of the petrodollar -the mechanism that has the world need US dollars to access the worlds scarcity good of oil and gave the USA and west by extension it’s firm grip as a unipolar power.
Well, it’s 2025 and as this now multipolar world has started to unfold, the world is changing profoundly in new directions again, redrawing the geopolitical landscape -the Trump effect. It no longer suffices to talk about the western demise and the western attempt to cling to a unipolar world. The USA is opting out and leaving the sinking ship. It’s discovering new ways to move forward as it faces a difficult, but worthwhile, new path to pursue. The old status quo is seeing it’s bureaucratic might fade and is fighting back in any way they can with the judicial, legacy media and economic might they still have. In this they find an eager European establishment and most of the rest of the western world on their side -the globalists. The less grip they have though, the more their undemocratic, warmongering and authoritarian nature is shown. There’s no better place to start looking for this then the European Union (EU).
There’s an argument to be made that the post WWII-order that gave the United States the world reserve currency and with it the ability to print unlimited money for free as the sole nation to be able to do so in this extend, had it’s roots in Europe. The American establishment aligned with the interests of the old European establishments and the city of London as the heart of the western financial world. The bankers found in the United States the ideal vehicle to continue as successor to the British pound as world reserve USD, the IMF and World Bank came out of the Bretton Woods agreements and later gave way to the Marshall plan debts and NATO. This laid the foundation for the post WWII international monetary order. As interesting as this is to dive into further, I will leave this to Alex Krainer who can do so like no other. Key thing to note for now though is that this system has not worked to the benefit of the American people since the decoupling of the US dollar from gold in 1971, only it’s establishment. As manufacturing jobs left, they left the working class poorer over time and the financialisation of the economy created an ever bigger divide between main street and wall street as democracy and individual liberty got hollowed out. But hey, the bankers had over 700 military bases sponsored by the petrodollar as they and their multinationals accumulated assets around the world. Please read my 2017 article to understand why this is so. It shows how back than the non-western world was fed up with it and broke loose in BRICS, just as the United States is breaking loose now.
Europe can now no longer virtue signal their human rights, freedom and democracy propaganda as the USA did the dirty work -not that this hindered the USA from the same virtue signalling. Europe prospered as it shared in the benefits the world reserve currency gave the west. It enjoyed access to cheap oil and other resources as the IMF ‘liberated’ foreign markets to sell back end products, leaving countries indebted, in dependence. As western currencies gave the western consumer immense purchasing power, undervalued currencies elsewhere provided cheap labour for low profit margin production the west did not want to make.
BRICS
The first cracks for the globalists agenda appeared with the rebellion of the BRICS-countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The economic power house China, THE manufacturing heart of the world, has long used the weak currency to develop their manufacturing strength. The cheap exports to the west are not so cheap anymore as China has learned to balance their currency between developing a strong manufacturing economy and getting enough value back to develop a middle class. Immense investment in renewables, new pipeline access to Russia’s gas and oil and immense investments in automation has brought the cost to produce down by magnitudes. A new highly skilled workforce, well developed trade routes and local semi finished products can make any end products at costs not possible elsewhere. Under the umbrella of BRICS, the rest of the world is starting to ask fair prices for their exports to the west too. As China offers long term purchase agreements with businesses outside of China and outside of the USD, it provides those companies with the stability to invest in their futures. The west can fish for the remainder, tough luck if it’s a bad harvest year. At least trading with China provides the means to develop and manufacture ever more locally. This increasing economic activity helps governments pay for the infrastructure investments China makes that allows these businesses cheap export and access to the world markets whilst providing China with resources and new export markets. All the whilst, Europe’s mishandling of the Russia-Ukraine war lead to the deindustrialisation of Germany and the wider EU as it’s no longer supported by cheap Russian pipeline gas. All this in the globalists’ worldview could have been overcome with the eventual collapse of Russia. Machkinder’s 1904 ‘heartland theory’, reflective of the irrational British deeprooted hate for Russia, is still alive and well amongst the globalists: he who controls the heart of the Eurasian continent, controls the worlds largest island and thus controls the world.
THE EU DIKTAT
Well, enter Trump and exit globalists. More on Trump/USA later. The new globalist heart is now beating in the EU’s establishment as it tries to use the European populous once again as the base for their imperialistic agenda. And how it’s ruining Europe.
Europe has no big tech and it’s industry is disappearing. It’s lost access to cheap energy and is losing access to affordable resources abroad. It’s main exports are the car industry, medicines and petroleum refinery and by-products. The ‘made in eu’ premium on products is no more. It’s losing it all. Europeans have no idea how despised their elites are amongst the rest of the world.
What the EU’s global power has always been though, is regulation. As Germany kickstarted electric vehicles to corner a new global market, Europe wide regulations created demand. Now that China beat them at their game, there’s import tariffs. Just like what happened to solar panels. In The Netherlands for example, one of the national newspapers, Trouw, published a front page story on research showing the unreliability of Chinese solar panels. Solution: obliged certification, adding a 10% surcharge. Who did this research -which to this day has not been made public? The certifying company KIWA itself, privatised from state to one of The Netherlands’ wealthiest families: family Vlissingen. The state was to give them a certification monopoly, it failed. I contacted an MP that asked questions to the minister of economics in the house of parliament and had this MP be in contact with a journalist who put it on the economic front page of another legacy newspaper, Het Parool. Luck had this one slip through, don’t have your hopes up on the legacy media.
These EU-initiated health, safety and environmental regulations have the dual purpose of showing a good face to the populous, whilst making it impossible for small and medium enterprises to start a competitive business. The EU is all about centralisation. There is no need to dive into how not democratic the EU is, but it IS the perfect vehicle for multinationals to lobby and bypass national governments. And the beauty of the EU is that it’s reaches strive to be extraterritorial, like the GDPR data protection law or the attempted Digital Services Act (DSA), which protects censors online content. They are now trying it’s extraterritoriality in Australia. As I’m writing this: “new hate speech laws in Australia that were rushed through off the back of a hysterical moral panic based on a completely fraudulent narrative.” The EU seeks to control how what is made where. As exports towards the EU are less and less important for the rest of the world, this too will fade as economic backwaters remain.
DEBT, WAR & DE-INDUSTRIALISATION
The EU’s €800 billion ‘ReArm Europe’ initiative seeks to issue EU bonds, eurobonds. This gives the EU a direct source of money that bypasses national governments. More centralisation. Besides for defence, eurobonds have been issued twice before, namely to fund project Ukraine and for the negative effects of the COVID policy -not virus. Notice how eurobonds show up whenever the globalists have a need. Also notice how COVID gave many EU citizens digital health passports along the way, registering who goes where and when -if allowed. Portugal now volunteered for the EU pilot of EU health passports. Individual countries are now talking of reintroducing mandatory military subscription and the UK wants to send soldiers to Ukraine, so does France.
Germany, known for its strict debt rules, has now allowed the defence budget to be exempt allowing a €1 trillion extra debt for defence. The aim is of course to compensate for the loss of industry as a result of their policies and an economic crises. There is now talk of Volkswagen factories going to make tanks instead. The aim here is to achieve what the United States is now trying to undo. Germany wants to financialise their economy over supporting industry. This will break the middle class and create an ever widening main street vs. wall street. All of this once again leads to centralisation.
NARRATIVE CONTROL & FAILING DEMOCRACIES
So, where’s the opposition to these globalists destroying the middle class and individual liberty? Well, firstly information does not make it through legacy media until repackaged in such a way that denies any responsibility to the establishment that got us there as it vilifies opposition in a classic divide and conquer. Labels as ‘far right’, ‘dictator’ and ‘racist’ are used cheaply and incorrectly. It prevents having to take any argument seriously and breeds conformity in a dangerous false moral superiority breeding polarisation. The other half is in the ‘democratic’ processes set up with safeguards to favour the status quo.
* France has a two-round voting system. If you win over 50% in the first round, you win the local seat. Otherwise a second vote is held between those that got over 12,5% of the vote. The one with most votes than win the electorate. Le Pen’s National Rally won the first round with an average 33% which could have translated into a majority as it would then beat the other two remaining smaller contestants. However in between the first and second round of voting, many candidates withdrew to favour the status quo in hoping strategic voting would create an anti-Le Pen vote. Result: Le Pen got 24.6% of the electoral seats.
* The United Kingdom is soon to have local elections and Reform UK was expected to win most of these. Out of fear this might translate in continued momentum towards the national elections, local Labour and Conservative parties postponed their elections in districts destined to be won by Reform UK, leaving 5.7 million voters without the ability to vote. The Conservatives are now projected to win most of these. When Jeremy Corbyn, who is not aligned with many of the globalists projects, unexpectedly became Labour’s party leader via grassroots support this sparked a civil war from with the party establishment. Just like in France, the electoral system in such a way to favour the status quo. Here the largest party gets amplified, thus the importance to keep Reform UK small. In the 2024 election labour won 33% of the vote that translated in 63% of the seats in the House of Commons. In 2019, the Conservative Party won 43% of the vote which translated in 56% of the seats.
* The Dutch parliament has just voted against eurobonds for ‘ReArm Europe’ or at least opt out. This was instantly ignored as prime minister (former head of intelligence) Dick Schoof stated “The Netherlands is part of the EU; we can not simply opt out of European defence discussions”. Clearly placing the supranational over national democracy. Earlier referenda in The Netherlands were ignored as well. The Dutch in 2014 voted by 61% against an economic and political association treaty between the EU and Ukraine. Similarly 63% voted against an EU constitution in 2005. Ignored. This democratic inconvenience of referenda has now been abolished since 2018.
* In Germany processes were started to block Alternative for Germany (AfD) from allowing to participate in elections as they feared it would grow to big. A 5% voter treshold on the other side keeps smaller parties out as well. This saw Sarah Wagenknechts party, a fierce critic of globalist policy on the left, not make it to parliament.
* Portugal’s proportional representation to a lesser extend also favours the largest parties tilting the power to the status quo.
* And in Romania a court of 9 people apparently know better than its voters as they annulled the presidential elections results in 2025 after Călin Georgescu’s won. He is against the NATO military presence which is currently being expanded into one of NATO’s largest EU bases to host 10.000 military personnel. Reason: an apparent Russian influence campaign on Tiktok. A campaign for which prove has not been presented to be subject to a democratic vote by the people. And even if so. He is banned from running again. Since, Diana Șoșoacă got his support to participate in new presidential elections. She has now also been banned for (1) ‘statements against democracy’: she called Putin a great leader (2) ‘promotion of anti-democratic ideology’: she called the parliament a ‘circus’ for their inaction and how a ‘patriotic dictatorship’ would even be better (3) ‘Antisemitic and Xenophobic Remarks’: she claimed jewish communites exerted undue influance over Romania and (4) ‘Pro-Kremlin Propaganda’: she opposes the EU, Nato and project Ukraine. So, freedom of speech and representing a democratic electorates view on these matters is not allowed? Being against NATO is illegal? See how the EU rallies behind the establishment and against democracy. Not J.D. Vance and the new wind in Washington though, thankfully that part of the world can now call these things out again instead of having Blinken micromanage the globalists empire.
Besides legacy media and institutional control over democracy, the digital space shows the centralisation of the information space like no other. After a campaign trying to again label, stigmatise and polarise its user base, X was presented as a place for dis- or misinformation in a desperate attempt at narrative control: the DSA was introduced to censor. X through community notes fixes many of these issues and comment sections provide any flavour of understanding for you to browse through and have obvious false narratives be undermined. They are just not given a long life in an environment where two-way communication beats the one directional legacy media. That’s why many establishmentarian have left, not out of some sort of moral high ground as they would have you beleive. It starts to show that it’s not the political fringes that radicalise, but it’s the center that has.
It’s not just X or Tiktok. In a theatrical show, Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram messaging service was arrested in France instead of just suing a company as is normal. Russian news agency rt.com was timely banned within the EU at the start of to the Ukraine war -it still is. In the UK people have been arrested for ‘causing anxiety’ or for ‘people feeling offended’ under the Malicious Communications Act 1988. As of 2025 the new Online Safety Act expands the governments abilities to remove ‘false communications’ and criminalizes acts like sharing knowingly false information causing “non-trivial psychological harm,”. It obliges social media companies to filter this. Larger platforms (Category 1 services) will face additional rules on transparency and user control over content, with thresholds defined in 2025 regulations. It seems like a UK-version of the EU’s DSA. Remember, none of this is for speech inciting violence as that was already covered by law. Germany tops it all with Section 185 that makes public insults a crime, punishable by fines or up to one year in jail. Also freedom of speech is limited in the German constitution and sets limits to protect personal honour, public peace, and vulnerable groups. Whatever the globalists agenda, offence can be found to intimidate any grouping into silence. Laws against insults or “malicious gossip” are vague, risking overuse. Even Human Rights Watch in 2018 warned Germany’s Network Enforcement Act turns platforms into “overzealous censors” without judicial oversight. Most freedom of speech cases never make to the general public though. And, inappropriate as some wordings can be, freedom of speech is non negotiable. Some examples.
Ahead of International Women’s Day in march 2024, German police raided 45 homes across 11 states, targeting suspects for misogynistic online posts. One case involved a man posting derogatory comments about female politicians. In 2021, known to Germans as ‘Pimmelgate’, a twitter user called Hamburg official Andy Grote “du bist so 1 Pimmel” (“you’re such a dick”) after Grote flouted his own COVID rules. Police raided his home and seized his devices. It’s part of a broader push to expand hate speech definitions beyond race and religion and blurs into policing opinions. In 2018 a Swede reported a neighbour to the police for anti-immigrant Facebook posts, calling them “hate speech.” The neighbour had written that Muslims “threaten Swedish culture” and was fined. This has promoted civilian policing, where these matters are normally dealt with originating from the enforcement agencies. Kate Scottow, a 39-year-old mother of two, was arrested at her home in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, UK, in December 2018 in front of her then ten-year-old daughter and 20-month-old son. She was arrested after Stephanie Hayden, a transgender woman, made complaints about Scottow’s online behaviour, which included misgendering her and calling her a “pig in a wig” for having a gun manufactering company that sells to law enforcement. She was found guilty, but won a later appeal.
Soon these examples might not be subject to national laws anymore as the EU -it wouldn’t be the EU if it didn’t try- seeks to implement an EU wide framework under the guise of child abuse and national security or court order. CSAM, dealing with the first, wants to require platforms, including encrypted messaging services like Signal, to scan, detect and report to authorities. Client-side scanning or other methods that undermine end-to-end encryption are negotiated, effectively creating backdoor-like access. This law, also known as ‘chat control’ aims to finalise the regulation mid 2025 and covers private, encrypted messages as well. Signal has already indicated it would leave the EU instead of implementing this law. This CSAM EU law was all set in motion in 2022 before Trumps re-election. Will the globalists impulsive tendency for control via centralisation win or as the EU is in dire straits, exports most to the USA and has no big tech itself, have J.D. Vance perhaps save the European citizens by pressuring freedom of speech some more? As of feb 21st 2025 the UK has already implemented the Advanced Data Protection (ADP) law. It forbids encryption and allows for a backdoor for government data requests. Apple who ‘would never’ create a backdoor, has now disabled their encryption for iCloud services in the UK and gave in.
FINANCIAL CONTROL
Yes, it gets worse. As of October 2025 the European Central Bank (ECB) will launch their Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), the ‘digital euro’. It “will be governed by EU regulations designed to balance privacy with security”. Since it will coexist next to cash they reassure their citizens there is no need to worry, as cash will always be available. This should somehow reassure everyone on the concerns of privacy and control of the CBDC.
But another EU law will go into effect in the summer of 2027 making cash payments over €10.000 illegal and for any cash payments over €3000 the seller is required to ask for identification. Travel between EU countries with more than €10.000 will become illegal. This applies to gold as well, at market value. So by then not a troy ounce of gold can move a border without declaring so. That’s what the value should be anyway if these authoritarian measures are implemented.
The EU (average) already has the highest tax-to-gdp burden of the whole world at 40%! This move could secure any tax conformity going forward. The Dutch national broadcasting service quoting partially state owned bank ABN AMRO back in 2021 also mentioned that “Research is still ongoing into how such digital money can be programmed in such a way that it can only be spent on certain things. For example, a government subsidy for housing or study can be programmed in such a case to be used only to pay rent or tuition fees. A time limit can also be given in which the subsidy must be spent. If this does not happen, the money loses its value to the user.” I don’t know what’s the latest on this, time will tell. It might be saved for an ‘upgrade’ of the money some later time still after the waters have calmed around the matter of the introduction.
Well, at least there’s bitcoin! As of January 1, 2026 however the EU will implement stricter tax rules for cryptocurrency transactions. All Crypto Asset Providers (CASPS) residing in the EU will have to report ALL transactions of their clients, regardless of size. An automatic tax rulings system within the EU will target attempts to hide money from the tax services.
Centralisation has more and more control reside with fewer and fewer people, with fewer and fewer ways of accountability of those closer to the centre. New layers of bureaucracy means an ever larger hierarchy of dependencies more and more out of control of individuals and away from democratic processes. It’s authoritarianism. It limits the personal liberties of the individual, ‘for the greater good’ a communist soviet era would say. The means don’t justify the end, it’s about the road by which you travel.
As EU middle class jobs disappear or temporarily move to state dependency, it amplifies polarisation between the haves and have nots. It breeds two different mindsets as well as those in the bureaucracy have a vested interest in the ongoing game, they will hire those ‘sane’ people as their own labelling polarises the have nots into poverty radicalising a new generation. A self-fulfilling prophecy. I count those benefiting from the financialisation as part of the bureaucracy. It’s their closer access to the money printer via central bank, private bank, multinational or government that sustains them. As the middle class is undermined, so is the entrepreneur. The local farmer can not compete with the administrative burden in the same way the multinational can. The cost of money is not the same. The local farmer might have a mortgage that when you add up life insurance, house insurance and all the financial products made up with it, comes to 15% interest on the loan. The multinationals cost of money might be just 1%, once again feeding centralisation.
Common sense would give an edge to the local economy, as globalism is an inefficiency. Cheap oil and a price of money not equal to all favours the later though. The EU, the globalists will await the same fate as the Soviet Union. The world, now strengthened by the USA, is done with them. Ideologically, conservatism is gaining ground from the globalists. The left misarably failed to capture the zeitgeist. Politically, nation state sovereignty is gaining ground over the supranational. Europe’s inability to see this new reality will marginalise it to the fringes of world economy and geopolitics. It already has, yet the European establishments inability to face this has them double down the authoritarian path now reflected ever more strongly internally instead of externally. Most of their populous, captured by their mediapolitical landscape, is oblivious. None more so than the left and their intelligentsia. Their ideals captured by globalists undermine the working class they once stood for. Lost in wokism, rallied for war and ideals hollowed out.
I remember a left that once -the famous sixties- rallied for equal opportunity for all, not equal outcome. I remember a left that stood up for minorities, not elevate them as deserving more rights then others. A left that did not use the state apparatus to force a minority will on the majority. Forcing certain bathroom usage, diversity quotas over merit based hiring and hurt feelings over free speech. I remember a left that backed a state that sees all of its citizens equal in the eye of the law. I remember a left that inspired feminism and stood up for women’s rights, not deprive them in transgender sports. I remember a left that knew how to stand up for the working class, not undermine them. I remember a left that did not side with war, but sought to prevent it. I remember a left that had ideals of tolerance and defended these by limiting immigration as they argued that there is a limit: the limit of the carrying capacity of a society to integrate to prevent parallel societies, polarisation and loss of certain ideals. It was the right back then that for economic reasons wanted to bring in cheap foreign labour in great numbers. Well, lost as the left is, they have learned to hate those still understanding the world as such. Just as the globalists taught the left to hate Russia, China or Hungary, so do they now hate their fellow ‘racist’ neighbour and ‘extreme right’ voter. Keep it up, and they will, as you breed them into the next generation.
Of course the basis for all these authoritarian diktats from the EU/globalists needs an external enemy to justify this: Russia. For a wish of not extending this article any more, I wont go into that. Suffice to say, its all bullocks. The west provoked the war. Let’s instead end this on a positive note and look at the direction the United States is going under Trump and how their embrace for bitcoin could save the USA and herald in a new age.
TRUMP’s USA
Firstly, let’s acknowledge that Americas population itself was subject to the same globalist policies as overseas. And yes, the American democratic process leaves much to be desired too. The two party system basically puts two private organisations in between that can have their own internal rules not subject to any democratic values in choosing their candidates -just look at Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris. But when it does come to voting; paper ballets, the lack of voter ID, gerrymandering, the lengthy counting of the votes and questionable voting machines are all hurdles to overcome. Trump has publicly mentioned his will to fix this, but as voting regulations are not part of federal law, but state law, a challenging task remains.
Also, the just Gaza critique and Yemen bombing I see as an extension of Israeli influence over the west that can not be attributed to Trump. He simply has to deal with it if he wants anything to pass US congress. One hurdle too much on an already full plate of challenges. Who knows, the next generation could pick this up as order is restored within? A Tulsi Gabbard or J.D. Vance as next president?
Trump’s cabinet picks are a breath of fresh air, not just in setting the American future up with a new younger generation, but also as an audacious one. They have shown courage and steadfastness in the face of authoritarianism. Tulsi Gabbard exposed the corruption of Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders in the 2016 democratic primaries and got put on a terrorism list for it. She is now the head of intelligence. Robert F. Kennedy jr., who took it upon him to fight big pharma is now the head of Health and Human Services. Howard Lutnick as US Commerce Secretary shows the daring embrace of crypto and bitcoin as a clear break from previous administrations’ globalist fight against it. Kash Patel as head of FBI has stated his wish to dismantle the “deep state” elements within. And vice president J.D. Vance breaks with the elitist bubble of Washington in picking the writer of a book that describes the struggles of poverty, addiction and dysfunction in a hill-billy working class environment.
What a contrast the new direction of the United States is compared to where most of the remaining west is going. This administration is the first to acknowledge a multipolar world, instead of maintaining the global monetary power of the USD and the empire of control that came with it. It sees the world in spheres of influence and seizes to be the worlds policeman. The dismantling of USAID has not only shown the immense corruption and waste within, but also ends their funding of global legacy media and NGO’s used for political instability and colour revolutions in those countries for which the globalists lack control of the institutions. It ends the globalists use of Ukraine which democracy it overthrew in 2014 and it’s continued use of Ukraine for their geopolitical goals and as a kickback for western elites. The USA now recognises it has no place there and that it’s part of Russia’s sphere of influence. Just as securing passage of ships from the east to the west coast of the states via the Panama canal is critical and is in America’s sphere of influence. Selling the panama canal to China is seen as not acceptable. In this line of thinking Greenland and the increasing arctic importance is also seen as part of their national security. As the world sighs relieve over a retreating America that respects the sovereignty more so than the globalist structures (NATO, WHO, IMF, …), being a neighbour to the USA now comes with its own ordeal. For the rest of the world, especially the great powers, it comes with the rediscovery of diplomacy and is much welcomed. For the globalists though, it’s buckle up. As the unipolar globalists exercise of power through established mediapolitical means ends, it brings back the power play to the level of the nation state. For the west this is most shocking as the behind the scenes power play they did not see before, is now out in the open.
As globalist political power is pushed out in favour of nation states, so is this happening on a cultural level. No longer does the USA impose ‘human rights’ in countries not aligned in order to lead to protests to overthrow a regime. It never was about human rights. Have you ever heard the west about Saudi Arabia, Israel or any befriended authoritarian ruler? No, sadly they used minorities for internal instability -gay, nazi or women rights, all flavours will do. Gone are hopefully the NGO’s waving EU or gay flags in some country sponsored by USAID. I am happy about that and yes, I am gay. Being used as a useful idiot for political means has only backfired. Out of fear of being overthrown countries have started to push back only harder. Populations have come to link this with western domination and exploitation and unfortunately only become enraged against it. Acceptance of diversity comes from a growing middle class and stability in society, when surviving becomes living. It has taken the west many decades to do so. We should respect the developmental path of other societies to do so on their turns. Stop pushing stuff down other peoples throat, it works averse and is anything but liberal or tolerant. Leave the internal affairs of others to the local way in which people have organised their society. Interact with, don’t preach. If anything, help the middle class grow via trade instead of exploiting and dividing them as has been done. Creating strong, local economies and respecting other cultures and traditions is the conservatism needed that is countering the globalists.
Creating strong, local economies can only come from the diversity of individuals and enterprises that make for the community and economy. So let’s focus on advancing personal liberty in the face of this globalist tyranny and work from the bottom up. Don’t manage, but create the conditions to thrive. Let’s go back to a small government that guarantees access to basic needs, infrastructure, health and education focused around the professionals and let the rest be.
This is where the United States now seems to be going. Where the EU, their eurobonds and ever larger tax burden is expanding government, the USA seeks to make government smaller and the tax burden less. Anyone earning under $150,000/year in the United States is going to hopefully be exempt from income taxes. In Hungary -another country globalist have taught many to hate- any mother with child is going to be exempt from income taxes until the age of 30. For life if you have two kids. Russia has similar initiatives. They support the middle class and it has removed the wage gap in the case of Hungary. Where Europe is growing military expenditure, America seeks to shrink the budget of defence and the CIA by one third. Where freedom of speech is restored as a core value, Europe’s censor grows. Where national sovereignty becomes the basis of operandi for America once again, the EU expands its grip over Europe. And where crypto and bitcoin are embraced, the EU tightens with their CBDC.
AMERICA NEEDS BITCOIN
After decades of a world reserve currency and a constant foreign need for dollars, printing dollars for America’s imports via bonds financialised their economy and grew their purchasing power as a strong dollar had products come cheap. For Trump to want to bring back the lost manufacturing jobs and with it the American dream, he needs a weaker dollar for industries to become more competitive again on the world stage. To kickstart this Trump needs import tariffs as they make it more attractive for companies to move to America and produce locally. (Side note: Yes, exactly the stuff the globalists undid over the many decades globally so their western companies could role in and take the assets. Exactly what the EU now tries to save their car industry.) This then brings the jobs, expertise and trade routes to become ever more competitive as tariffs can then be lowered. Partly cancelling income taxes helps in this as well. The Internal Revenue Service’ (IRS) loss of income seeks to be replaced by a new External Revenue Service (ERS) where taxes from tariffs make up for taxes from income.
The many decades of global reserve currency has also left them with an immense debt and as easy money breeds corruption and waste, so has it had budget-consciousness go out the window. As multipolarity started to chew at the use of the dollar globally, this meant less demand for US bonds to finance itself. And vengeful as the globalists are, they might add on top of that. It’s hilarious to see the rest of the west going from ridiculing the BRICS’ impact on the dollar to now sudden widespread talk of dollar demise. It can go two ways from here. Sudden budget reforms to balance the budget or defaulting on debt, implying an end to the military-industrial complex leaving national security vulnerable whilst also cutting social benefits. An instant crash. No sitting government will ever choose this. Or… keep printing money as it’s value inflates the debt away. That would be death by a thousand cuts and still leave the USA with no solid manufacturing base as the crises hits. This is where bitcoin offers a third option. It scares the globalists and the EU and I love it.
On march 6th 2025 Trump signed an executive order creating a federal bitcoin reserve with the bitcoin the government already seized in earlier court cases, about ₿200.000. It also tasked treasury and commerce with exploring ways of acquiring more bitcoin using ‘budget-neutral strategies’. One such strategy could be to sell some of the gold reserves to use for bitcoin purchases. As gold is officially still valued at $42/ounce in the books and the market value is currently $3000/ounce this leaves the us with a surplus of $771 billion which could buy ₿7.71 million if bitcoin were priced at $100,000. Geopolitically this could also undermine the efforts of BRICS-countries in their move from the USD to gold. Another possibility would be to issue partly bitcoin backed US bonds. Andrew Hohns presented a proposal at the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) presenting this option as ‘Bit Bonds’. Ten percent of the bonds would be used to buy bitcoin, whilst the other 90% would be used for general expenditures. A lower interest rate on these bonds of 1% instead of current 4,5% for ten year bonds would save the government $70 billion annually or $700 billion over its ten years. If you hold these bonds until maturity an annualised return of 4,5% will be paid out. As the total amount of bitcoin is finite, the value of the bitcoin in these bonds will rise over time. Half of these gains will be for the government, where the other half would be paid out to the bond holder. He suggest a one time issuance of $2 trillion in bonds, thus allocating $200 billion to bitcoin. At $100,000/₿ this would buy 2 million bitcoin or 9,5% of all bitcoin there will ever be. As in the gold example before, incorrectly assuming no effect by this on the price of course. Two trillion dollars would be about the value of bonds issued in 2024. The intend for the bitcoin reserve is to be held for long term, at least 20 years. This should then balance out the immense debt currently held, if not more, and back the USD again with assets instead of debt. As any executive order can be cancelled by a next president, work is underway to legislate the reserve into law by passing the March 11th introduced BITCOIN Act in congress. This will solidify it’s long term sustainability.
Where eurobonds seek to find private capital to fund their expenses and adds government debt, the American bitcoin approach could replace debt with assets. As eurobonds are issued in euros it will likely leave these bond holders in debt too as the value of the euro is based on the instability within and a struggling economy. Manufacturing backs the Chinese currency, the need for USD as a global reserve currency backs the American currency looking back and bitcoin looking forward, but what will back an EU bond going forward? The need for war? Most likely EU-nations pension funds will be encouraged to buy these bonds risking the pension of their citizens along the way. An equal threat to the EU besides bitcoin, is the issuance of USD stablecoins.
USD stablecoins is cryptocurrency pegged to the value of the USD. Tether, or USDT, has already cemented its place in the world, making the way things were obsolete. Foreigners would usually buy bonds to ensure enough liquidity in trade -even two foreign companies trade in dollars for price stability, holding some liquidity in cash offers little profit compared to holding it in interest paying bonds. As the US bond market is very liquid it can easily be sold when USD/cash is needed to transact. Stablecoins could be seen as a threat for any money flowing into a stablecoin does not automatically translate into an extra demand for bonds or cash: a stablecoin algorithm could try and keep this peg. These algorythmic based attempts have been made, but were mostly unseccesful. The approach of Tether has it keep the peg by actually backing it up with bonds on a one to one basis and has found the trust of the market. As stablecoins are easy to come by via any crypto exchange worldwide, it offers citizens in countries with less stable currencies an easy, more secure savings method and a method to trade with anyone, anywhere. Anyone can download an app and find ways to exchange their local currency. As of the end of 2024 Tether holds $113 billion in bonds and was the 7th largest buyer of US bonds in 2024.
A faltering EU-economy could see a flee from the euro to stablecoins by its citizens, further putting pressure on the euro. See here the use for a CBDC as their digital euro can control and limit this, saddling their citizens with devaluation of their savings and no place to go to secure it. The new EU MiCa regulations severly limits the use of any stablecoins not denominated in EUR, whilst thoroughly controlling EU based stablecoins. Stablecoins are generally seen as a free market alternative to a CBDC. Unregulated as they are now, USDT offers countries under sanctions, like Russia, an alternative payment system, an ironic way of dedollarising by using the dollar. The current US administration however seeks to leverage stablecoins to preserve the dominant role of the USD. It’s one of these rare cases where both sides are keen to approve new legislation via congress and its expected in coming months. It will likely ban any stablecoins not backed by bonds, require know your customer (KYC)/ ID to use these, bring them under US regulation and also allow banks to issue stablecoins. Tether, seated in El Salvador, has shown willingness to cooperate. How the USA seeks to enforce foreign stablecoins or balance this free market spirit with enforcing for example Russian sanctions to be applied, I’m not sure.
As Micheal Saylor, a prominent Bitcoin advocate and the executive chairman of Strategy said, “Bitcoin doesn’t need you to thrive; it’s there, waiting, when you need it.”. This references to his and many peoples initial disregard of bitcoin until there is a need and they study it to see how its future will thrive. I, for the hope of the American people and the world at large, hope the current administration sees their need. Or EU citizens for that matter.
BITCOIN, THE FREEDOM MONEY FOR A NEW WORLD
Or any person for that matter.
Whole books have been written about bitcoin and with every new understanding a more profound understanding awaits still (this article by Lyn Alden is a great start). This does not only work in the understanding of bitcoin itself and how it’s a working, better alternative to the fiat (government money) way things are, but also applies to the change it brings about in its interaction with that what it touches: societal ways of organising, individuals place in it and even their outlook, values and minds. It’s time to seperate money and state as we once seperated the church and state.
Wherever you look, things tend to end with the meme ‘Bitcoin fixes this’. I’ll leave that joyful experience to your own discovery. However, in the context of this article I want to quickly touch upon two aspects of this ‘freedom money’. Firstly how it undermines many of the lefts arguments for a need to be governed and secondly how this freedom money provides actual freedom measured in free time beyond the simple number go up logic for those that posses it.
The use of bitcoin undermines the need for fiat money and its many disastrous consequences. It undermines centralisation of a world that has been created around the free money printer they posses enforced by the need to pay taxes in that currency. As the fractional reserve system of the central banks allows private banks to also make money out of thin air by leveraging their assets, their dominance has since been well established. Those companies that aligned with the interests of this segment of society grew into multinationals as the banking sector provided a low cost of money. All of them together have taken on the journey of expanding their assets globally -hence the globalists. This expansion is essential as creating new fiat money creates devaluation of the currency, inflation. In this way inflation is exported abroad as new assets come to back up the larger money supply.
Governance over the poulous has been maintained in the illusion of left vs right ways of thinking and governing. The left blames the IMF, banks and multinationals for the worlds inequality and injustice where the right blames government for bureaucratic overreach and its injustice, whilst both serve the interest of this globalist group of governments, supranational institutions, the banking sector and multinational. Unknowingly to most, we all support these globalists in our simple day to day use of fiat money. The inequality is rooted in government allowing this to be and enforcing this to be through taxes. Both sides ideologies get underminde: the small and medium enterprises and their beleive free market philosophy works for them as well as the welfare state on the other side that has them believe government is needed to protect individuals from this free market. In reality, we have no free market. We have communism through socialism for the globalists via their access to free money, whilst the rest get to compete in capitalism for the left overs. What we need is a truly free market that does not favour the few over the many. A free market -as dirty as that sounds to the left- is nothing more than individuals freely being allowed to offer their goods to those that see a need for these without causing harm to others -environment as an extention of that. We have a distorted market enforced via government and fiat taxes and enabled by fiat money -the monetary system.
After fiat was no longer tethered to the real world by closing the convertibility of the USD into gold in 1971, inflation has made us all work more for less. Your productivity could no longer be stored in real value. The gains in productivity came to us via both cheap energy that had oil replace much of the labour and via technology that allowed us to do things more efficiently has made us all richer since. This added wealth has made us unaware of the theft that has occurred since 1971 via inflation sponsoring globalism. The future looked bright before 1971, the American dream was alive and kicking and talk of the twenty hour workweek gave a bright future perspective. Instead, the theft has expanded to cover every corner of the world as any opposition was squashed.
Bitcoin now again allows people to store the fruits of their labour through time. It allows us to save without it being devalued by inflation and taxes. Or at the least taxes for which the government needs YOU. Where the price of gold could easily be suppressed via what’s been known as ‘paper gold’, the globalists have no control over bitcoin. Paper gold expresses the possibility of the globalists to trade gold in future markets using their free fiat money as most trades don’t result in physical delivery for an inconvenience not present with bitcoin. Gold can therefore easily be leveraged in the way fiat can be ‘printed’ more off. They participate in the ‘free’ markets in a way that results in a price that works for them, thus killing gold as an exit ramp for saving your labour through time. Over the decades the leverage had grown and has become more unsustainable, especially with the BRICS countries focusing on the physical gold market making even the few physical deliveries in western trading hubs difficult at their prices -thus the increasing leverage over time. Estimates vary from leverage as little as 25:1, thus 25 claims for 1 amount of physical to as much as 300:1. It’s becoming ever more unsustainable, screaming for fair value to be found. Gold prices could soon reflect this, anchoring it once again as a fair store of value.
So, how would your life look like if you did not have to sponsor the globalists via inflation? How would your life look like if you worked 20 hours per week for the same comforts you have? How would the feminist wave wanting to participate in the work force have made a difference on household income? Ironically, where a single income sustained a family before, a double income now doesn’t even seem to suffice. Our most basic needs -a house, energy, food and mobility-, our simple right to be, has been priced out. Looking at disposable income (income left over after taxes and basic living expenses), the average years needed to buy a house in 1970 compared to now has roughly climbed from 5 years to 18 years. Add a car onto that and their goes the life of a middle income earner, all whilst we fight over a left or right wing government and march behind the rhetoric of human rights, democracy and freedom to expand the misery elsewhere. And, if money is free for the few, why am I still paying taxes anyway?
How does this affect local communities when all of us work to survive, instead of having the time to live? How does this affect the family? The entrepreneurial mind? The creative mind? Poverty? Gross inequality? The need for the welfare state? Mental health for that matter. Well, let’s vote or protest government to fix this right? Protests are asking the globalist way of how we organised society to change. It actually gives them power as it implies you believe they have the will and power to fundamentally change things.
If you truly want to change the world, be kind, leave the city, build community and become self sufficient so you can create local abundance in basic needs as that frees those around you from the need to fight over fiat money artificially kept scarce for the many. We now know there is enoug to go around, we produce eight times the amount of food needed to sustain the worlds population, yet access to this abundance is withheld via the scarcity good of money.
Slavery has never been abolished, it’s just been expanded to include the many. And in such a way in which they need to take care of themselves, freeing the slave owners of their responsibilities in basic human needs. Don’t be a wage slave forever, work your way out of it and start saving in bitcoin to end the dystopia few are even aware of but we all live the effects of. There is a future that is within the grasps of all of us to pull forward, so let me appropriately end with ‘bitcoin fixes this’.
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