Absolutely, it is politics, but not in the superficial partisan sense. This is ideological geopolitics.
On the surface, the US appears to be planting a flag with Tether and Bitcoin, not just financially, but philosophically. Under Trump, there’s a pivot back to foundational societal pillars: individual liberty, national sovereignty, and hard money. Bitcoin becomes the monetary embodiment of freedom, and Tether acts as a tactical bridge, exporting dollar liquidity into digital rails.
Europe, on the other hand, is doubling down on control. MiCA isn’t regulatory housekeeping, it’s the scaffolding for a monetary panopticon. The ECB and EU technocrats, backed by deep state infrastructure, aren’t preparing for innovation, they’re preparing to retain control at all costs during monetary transition.
These aren’t compatible visions. One is open-source, decentralised, and voluntary. The other is walled-garden, surveilled, and programmable.
Eventually, these worldviews will clash, not just at the diplomatic level, but socially. If Europe continues toward programmable authoritarianism while a more appealing parallel system emerges abroad, the fracture won’t just be transatlantic, it’ll be internal. People will opt out. Some literally, some digitally. And at some point, that becomes revolution, not reform.
This is just my opinion, formed through ongoing observation of monetary, geopolitical, and technological shifts. I don’t claim certainty, only a pattern that seems to be revealing itself with increasing clarity.