Fair enough. States will transform in one way or another but they won't just stop existing. This doesn't make thesis about bitcoin being a defense as well as power projection tool not true.
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the projection part is stupid, this is unambiguously imperial in concept, the idea that there can't be peace without conquest
all wars of aggression start with robbing people for the resources to prosecute them
what does "projection" mean? it means throwing something beyond the limits of your boundaries
with the fiscal discipline of the fixed supply of currency you can't prosecute wars of aggression, and thus you can't project your power, you simply assert it
every time there is violence there has to first be deception and then theft