IMF and El Salvador

During all these years of self-education and search for the truth, which by the way led me to Bitcoin, one of the things I learned is that the IMF is the monetary instrument used by the US to subjugate countries and take away their national sovereignty.

The most significant case of our time was Japan, many do not know the history, and as it is somewhat long and complex I refer you to the great documentary “Princes of the Yen”.

If there is one thing that “Bitcoiners” are guilty of, it is naivety. Bukele has made a pact with the devil, Bukele is not as good as you think, he is just a politician, if he had really been smart and had thought about his people, rather than asking for a loan to the IMF he would have opted for the old tactic of save and do not spend what you do not have.

Oh yes, now he has bought 10 more bitcoins, as if he spends the 1400 million in Bitcoin, so far the IMF has already had its way with Bitcoin.

I repeat, if there is one thing Bitcoiners are guilty of, it is being very naive. There is no good politician, you understand? Neither Trump, nor Milei nor Bukele, they are all shit, and Bukele only uses Bitcoin as propaganda, nothing else.

You can argue whatever you want, but surely you don't know what it means to pact with the IMF nor how bad this institution is, before giving your opinion about how good Bukele is, study what the IMF is, study how it has subjugated countries and study what happens if you breach your agreements with the IMF.

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The only good politician is a dead one.

Yes. 100%

But still halarious.

Wasn't this to roll over the old IMF loan?

IMF, World/Central Banks, NATO are just tools that US is using to enslave and exploit countries, all in the name of spreading "freedom", "democracy" and "fight with terrorism". Any politian engaging with this aparatus is working against interest of his country and its people, no exceptions. Every Bitcoiner should understand that.

Yes, but these are not the only entities they are using for this purpose. Just recently they used EU, Russia, China and many more in concert with the ones you mentioned. Hopefully now China and Russia broke out as they appear to have done it.

Basically, US was the biggest boy in school, giving everyone else a choice between bad and worse. So for the strong ones the best choice was to hold on to themselves, which is exactly what, for example, the Francoist Spain had done until it lost its strength after Franco or once he got too old. Spain lost everything. Instead of enjoying their best in the world resosrts themselves, now foreigners are enjoying them, while spaniards are just slaving them abroad and inside.

But for places like Lithuania, NATO and EU was a much better choice. Because the only alternative was sticking with Russia which on an individual level meant just hard work while staying in Lithuania with no experiences, no luxury things and no time for oneself. Basically, worse than in the USSR before. All that for 30+ extra years. So a lifetime of hard work in a shitty place all the time.

And the US is just the military arm of the Israeli central banks

US gov is 100% capured by them

Gladstein's book is a good place to start.

https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/products/hidden-repression

If thieves are running the world, and everyone else is poor and weak, does it not make sense to join the thieves to get strength, and then, from a strong position, even from an internal position within thieves, start breaking up the gang and fight for the righteous things?

Why did Kennedy and Trump families achieved anything at all? Because they were super rich in the first place, i.e. they were part of the thief gang.

If you are weak, do you have more chance to win against a strong enemy by an all out external atack in line with the Geneva convention, or by infiltrating the enemy as a spy, a sleeper cell, including at first doing all the most heinous crimes and more than that together with the enemy?

You need to learn to differentiate between the real enemy and your spies within it. And while you cannot know which spies will betray you too, you can still use their achievements that benefit you while they last.

Pacifists have never won anything, only been enslaved, i.e. benefitted their enemies forever. Only the most capable fighters have always won, and avoided being enslaved by anyone.

I have always hated the suits, but for quite a while I was a suit myself, was a friend with only non-suits, was loved by non-suits, benefitted them greatly, and at the same time achieved financial independence for myself, all while living a life of anyone's dreams. Unfortunatelly, with covid they switched to loving those other real suits, and as a result became poorer and sicker significantly. And it is only gonna get worse for them. And I am not going back to help, as one can only betray me once. And neither I am going to nor need to go back to being a suite.

Trump and even Bukele are still very beneficial for bitcoiners. And if one day they stop being that, we will stop loving them.

IMF is financial colonialism.

Very disapointed with bukele on this one.

Look, this IMF = evil empire take is pretty weak. While they've definitely messed up with harsh austerity programs, calling it a US puppet ignores that it's a 190-country institution that's prevented multiple financial meltdowns. The Japan/Plaza Accord stuff is way more complex than you're making it sound.

On Bukele: Say what you want about his politics, but calling Bitcoin adoption pure propaganda misses the point. Tourism's up 30%, there's more financial inclusion, though yeah, daily Bitcoin use is still low. It's an experiment, a work in progress, with real trade-offs, not a "pact with the devil."

And NATO as just a US tool? Come on. Ask the Baltics or Balkans if they're being "enslaved" by choosing collective defense. International institutions are messy and need reform, but this good vs. evil framing is peak Twitter oversimplification and the easiest explanation to bring out. The truth is more boring: nobody is in control and everyone is scrambling for a bit more than they currently have.

Global governance is more complicated than "everyone's shit." 🤷‍♂️​​​​

Was meant as a reply to you and nostr:npub13eywhklnpvxx66u0hvwm9drnlvz6c0ees0kp5k6hewqaenylrrqqja64c9 under his reply, but since I cannot edit nor delete this note, I feel compelled to add context.

Whenever i hear 'global governance' I start to be wary of the speaker

Global governance isn't some illuminati scheme - it's just the messy reality of countries trying to solve problems that don't stop at borders.

Think pandemic response, climate change, financial crises. The IMF, UN, WHO - they're imperfect tools built by imperfect humans. Sometimes they help, sometimes they screw up. But going full conspiracy mode whenever someone mentions international cooperation? That's not skepticism, that's just letting fear do the thinking.

I mean, if you hate the current system, cool - propose better solutions. But pretending we can solve global challenges without any form of coordination? That's not being wary, that's being naive. 🤷‍♂️​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

NATO is just a tool used by US giving an illusion of security, I stand behind my point. It is a tool to ensure hegemony of US and keep member states in control. Does placing US missiles stations in Eastern Europe increase the security in the region? I doubt it, if anything, it increase the risk of these countries being a target. I also doubt US solgiers will ever be figthing to defend interest of any of the member countries. They will only fight to defend interest of Wallstreet, not even the interest of US citizens. And Washington will not hasitate to sacrifice Europe and its population if it is what it takes to defend the US interest and hegemony in the world. Look what happens in Ukraine. If anything, US intervention brings destruction and death that ensures the country becomes dependent and the resources of the country are explored. Sometimes it requires military force sometimes not.

Is it possible that Bukele is just naive?

He is a politician, nothing more

If Bukele spends the IMF loan money on Bitcoin I would eat my words, but that would imply that the CIA would provoke a color revolution or whatever they call them in El Salvador.

So I don't know what is a worse strategy, if accepting the IMF loan or spending it on Bitcoin, both are pretty stupid because of the consequences they will have for El Salvador.

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Maybe he got an 'offer he couldn't refuse'? In the past, some Latin American politicians died under strange circumstances when they tried to stand up to the U.S. government or corporations. You can read more in "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man".

Bukele may be better than the alternative, but he is certainly not one of the good guys as most bitcoiners believe. His mass incarcerations are also very questionable. And his re-election story is also very shady. Power corrupts and he is basically a modern day dictator in El Salvador. Just because you (the average bitcoiner) like him doesn't mean it justifies the concentration of power in one man. Never give up your freedom and give it to a guy who wants power. And he definitely wants power!

I find the whole thing too strange to speculate on for now. Adopting Bitcoin in the first place was epic and this move seems ridiculous. Something isn't as it seems, hard to tell what.