War is the continuation of politics by other means. Some general with an impossibly hard to spell name said that hundreds of years ago. It seems to agree in part with what you said.

I'm on nostr taking a break from my uni readings on how expensive war is and the various ways states fund it. Pressuring their tax cattle is only one way. I don't doubt that if a state had bitcoin it could use it to fund wars. It would probably sell it to the plebs in the country it wants to invade so their tax cattle fund the war on themselves. 🤔