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This is why I love Nostr.

Ordinary people like me have cats and dogs as best mates.

Extraordinary people have exotic Nostr bed mates.

Random, feral and awesome .

And you know this? How?

Inbred?

Fucking goats?

I thought this was Epstein's lot. Was he your daddy?

I remember watching Bassent announce that he did a schedule audit of the Fort Knox gold . No one asked him what a schedule audit is.

BS Detector fired up because body language was showing the opposite to what was coming out of his mouth .

Stacking my truckload of tinfoil.

1. Preparation vs paranoia.

2. Listing what's important to me. Adopting alternatives to protect before needed.

3. Decentralize, compartmentalize and breaking habits.

4. To do list - faraday sleeves to secure id documents .

Thank you ghost. So much to learn while the sands shift beneath my feet.

Room mate is a Pug. Definitely NOT a lapdog.

A dictator . Bed hogger. And has a talent for scoping out food that should be in the pantry or the fridge.

Israel continues to murder the People of Palestine .

No outrage there.

Israel is a country of terrorists .

No outrage there.

And yet Tucker Carlson compares the life and death of Jesus and Charlie Kirk and ......

Go figure.

No I haven't . But thanks for the heads up.

As a side note - I have checked children's books in the Library. They are rubbish.

Aesops fables. Three little pigs. Rhyming books. Can't find them.

Scouring secondhand shops - found numbers and alphabet books. And old fashioned toys.

I've also noted that some of the childrens TV Cartoons have underlying messaging , that creates divisiveness and elitism .

A concerted effort at dumbing down, time wasting, stupid nonsense.

So focusing on making our own stories relating to real animals, instead of unicorns and flying pigs. And creating fun games using chalk on concrete.

These are true gems.

Will be with my grandchildren aged 2 and 6 months. I will be reading your books to them.

A statement of contradiction .

Beatings to improve morale?

Beatings can enforce obedience . The use of violence, threats and fear doesn't lift morale.

Thank you for sharing . I am not EMF savvy.

Who's morale?

If its the Parasites - their long term plan is collapsing . Their own lies strangle them.

If its the Plebs - the industry of learning and creative thinking is flourishing .

The idea is to keep us dazed and confused.

Keep an eye on the big picture.

The money printer vs the blockchain.

China vs USA/Israel.

Surveillance vs privacy.

Propaganda vs free speech.

Chokepoints vs alternative solutions.

Divisive cultures brought in to create fight clubs to take your eye off the ball. ALWAYS LOOK UNDER THE HOOD.

They want to deconstruct to reconstruct . Because the current plan is NOT working.

All else is noise.

Agreed . Human behavior is the unknown factor. No matter how perfect a plan is structured, perception and perspective from a human point of view is what drives the strategy to a different outcome.

AI rely on patterned behavior . Humanity is notorious for unpredictability . Humanity break ideas. Create alternatives . Because we have different realities. Different priorities . And different expectations .

Governments have lost control of free speech. Their fake media has lost credibility . So what do they do? They make more laws? What do developers do? They create alternative solutions . NOSTR!!!

Governments have lost control of the money system . More laws. More alternative solutions. BITCOIN!!!

Perhaps we need to look at who the frogs are now.

I'm not a frog.

Classic example of saying one thing and meaning the opposite .

And then the penny drops.

One point for the bs detector.

Replying to Avatar Contra

I grew up going to Roman Catholic Church. I went through all the motions but understood none of the meaning. I’d constantly ask my mom why I had to do all of the “stuff” and confess my “sins” to some stranger in a confessional booth. It felt hollow and mechanical. I left that tradition the moment I turned 18, determined to forge my own path.

But life has a way of humbling us. I got married at 20, had my first son at 22, and despite my best intentions, I found myself repeating the exact patterns I’d grown up resenting. Generational brokenness is devastatingly real. Another son came two years later, and after 10 years of marriage, I was spiritually and emotionally bankrupt. I’d sit alone some nights, confronting the uncomfortable truth that I’d become a narcissist. Everything I did seemed to revolve around my own needs and ego.

During this season, my wife started attending a non denominational church (Baptist roots). I was working weekend graveyards, so she took our boys with her. Honestly, I figured they’d all be better off without me there anyways as I’d wake up and marinate watching football all day. But over several months, I watched something remarkable happen to my wife. She became more patient, more sacrificial, more joyful. The change was so profound it got my attention in a way nothing else could.

God was working on my heart, creating a curiosity I hadn’t ever had. My wife had been quietly collecting Christian books, and I found myself drawn to Lee Strobel’s “The Case for Christ.” I devoured it in two days, and couldn’t put it down. The historical evidence for Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection was overwhelming. By the end, I was convinced not just intellectually, but in my soul: I was a sinner desperately in need of rescue, and Jesus Christ was real.

That realization changed everything because I knew it had to. If what I’d read was true and the evidence said it was, then this wasn’t just interesting information. It was the most important truth in existence, with eternal consequences.

In the many years since, God has completely reoriented my life. Through reformed theology, particularly RC Sproul’s teaching, I discovered that the dead saints often speak more clearly to our current struggles than most contemporary voices. Reading the Puritans and reformers showed me that God’s sovereignty and grace aren’t abstract concepts, they’re the foundation of transformed living.

The truth is, I didn’t choose God. He chose me. While I was spiritually dead, consumed with myself, He pursued me with relentless love. That grace has transformed my marriage from the inside out, revolutionized how I father my sons, and given me a brotherhood within the body of Christ I never knew I needed.

Now everything I do flows from that love. Everything I do here on Nostr is through that love. Not perfectly, but purposefully. I’m the same man, but I’m not the same man.

If you’re reading this and something resonates, don’t wait. Pick up a book. Ask the hard questions. Examine your life honestly: Are you just happy, or do you have joy? Happiness depends on circumstances; joy transcends them. One is temporary satisfaction; the other is eternal security.

I promise you, investigating the claims of Christ will be the most important thing you ever do. Not because I say so, but because He is who He says He is. And that changes absolutely everything.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The Book of Ecclesiastus by King Solomon helped me to understand my purpose on earth.

The Book of Matthew helped me to understand why Jesus was born, baptized and sacrificed for our sins.

The Book of Revelation helped me to understand the future of whats to come. A reckoning of good and evil.

I look at religion today - Bhudism, Hindu, Moslem, Taoism, Luddite, Christian and many in between - none of them are right or wrong. Just a measure of joy, love and comfort for our fellow neighbour.

And yet, humanity still manages to corrupt, distort and even kill in the name of church and religion.

Jesus asked for 3 things from us, before he died

1. To remember the significance of his sacrifice .

2. To love our Father in heaven as much as we love ourselves.

3. To love our neighbour.

Focusing on the Lords prayer helps me to be a better person. Flawed.

But pick myself up and keep going.

Replying to Avatar Dimi

“Big drama today in the Tor community.

Conrad Rockenhaus, a Tor operator based out of Michigan, United States, was arrested in 2020 after refusing to cooperate with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation

Rockenhaus, a disabled United States military veteran, ran the fastest Tor node in the United States. He was approached sometime in late 2019 when the FBI requested he allow them arbitrary access to his exit node and allow them to decrypt traffic. He denied their request.

Subsequently, in February, 2020 his home was raided. He was arrested for violating the CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act). It was alleged that he was a disgruntled ex-employee causing problems at his former place of employment.

Interestingly, to "help resolve the matter", law enforcement requested he decrypt his Tor exit node to prove his innocence (???). After he refused, he was held in a pre-trial detention cell for over 3 years. He was denied bail after law enforcement stated Mr. Rockenhaus used Linux to "access the dark web" and he was "not complying" and not allowing them access to this Tor exit node.

After Mr. Rockenhaus' wife filed an official complaint, and Mr. Rockenhaus was miraculously released, he was raided by the United States Marshal Fugitive Task Force TWO TIMES(???).

They took him out his home, threw him to the ground, beat him, smashed his windows, and threatened to murder his animals.

They are still requesting Mr. Rockenhaus allow them to access his Tor exit node. Mr. Rockenhaus still has not granted them that privilege.

All of this has been captured on home security camera footage. Additionally, his wife has released all court documents.

See subsequent post for more information.” -vxunderground, on X

https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1ni5drm/the_fbi_couldnt_get_my_husband_to_decrypt_his_tor/

Making a decision to stay true has consequences. Mr and Mrs Rochenhaus make us aware of what would we do if confronted by government demand to expose, so they can exploit.

They are brave.

Look inward . What decision would I make?

Go silent?

Hand over what they demand?

Lie?

Can I stand up to their violence, their threats , their use of weaponised government backup to destroy my life?

Am I a coward? A parasite? Selfish ?

Am I glad that this is happening to Mr and Mrs Rochenhaus and not to me?

Words are cheap. Empty praises mean jackshit.

Strengthening the mindset is a start.

Being aware that government thuggery, failed media exposure, a fucked up justice system, witholding medical care are systems of a deliberate manufactured collapse to life as I know it.

Do I have the same courage?

The trick is animals KNOW they're imprisoned .

Most humans have no idea that they're walking into a prison of their own making. They won't wake up, until its too late. And even then, they'll exchange their freedom for convenience and so called security.

The hardest thing I've found is studying myself. If it wasn't for covid lockdown, I would never have considered it.

1. Health.

2. Mental wellbeing.

3. Who to trust.

4. My values.

5. Building a knowledge base.

6. Connecting with those who embraced Bitcoin Protocol.

7. Joining Nostr.

This has enabled me to discern the language of persuasion from all sectors of society on a macro and micro level.

To understand when perception is used compared to perspective .

To learn the right questions .

To identify the fear, to face the fear, to find alternative solutions .

Still on this journey. To learn, to adapt, to adopt.

A good journey . Regardless of who dominates, what laws come out of the woodwork and the ability to look under the hood, when governments speak.

Big leap.

Baby steps.

Mindset change .

Dumping retard think.

Looking at every electronic in my house for its secondary purpose .

Putting in place your recommendations now, before I need them.

A real sense of controlling my fear.

Facing the fear and doing it anyway.

My biggest achievement is breaking down the fences I built in my mind.

Thank you Whitney for your unrelenting pursuit in unraveling Epstein. This is way bigger than Trump and Trump is grappling to control the narrative. Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino failed the credibility test and unfortunately for them, this is not going away.

You have this ability to take such a complex 'duck and dive opaque tunnel' subject and weave the scattered crumbs into a coherent file of swamp monsters in a cesspool of lies, deaths and corruption . The Rothschild connection is the biggie.

Please keep safe Whitney . You're NOT suicidal.

Thank you Peter. I love the vibrancy that you two generate when you're together . Like two friends catching up with each other. A genuine show of joy and respect .

Some people prefer perspective. Some people prefer perception . One is based on reality. The other is based on assumptions . It is important to know which one is being used, when communicating.

Since Covid lockdown - governments, fake media, Big 7, pharmaceuticals, some influencers have weaponised fear, to control, coerce, manipulate. Electronics are designed to collect our habits, decipher, repackage and auction our data to the highest bidder.

This is happening today - in the real world .

Using general statistics to back your statements on governance , climate change etc implying mental wellbeing deterioration and FUD following is total bs.

Your assumptions are off base.

If you want to scare yourself off this planet - read this article -

The Modern Slave by Joshua Stylman.

I follow him on Substack.

I would be interested in your thoughts.

I've decided to collect up the rest of his writings and check out his links.

China has set the surveillance template. So it is expected.

What people are unaware of - is the coming nanobot tech just through RNA collection. This is diabolical . Follow DARPA and the reasons the US Military are hard out atmospheric seeding. Exposes and exploits humanity to neural linking transhumanism.

I follow Joshua Stylman on Substack - His latest article The Modern Slave should give some credence to why Elon Musk has reservations about AI safety. DARPA, Palantir namely through Peter Thiel, Bill Gates and Sam Altman are pushing this through as fast as they can, before Governments regulate .

It is obvious that you do not take the time to listen and back check Matthew Kratters work. He commands respect . You don't.

I'm not interested in who wins the Core/Knots debate . The Nodes still have the ability to choose confirmation . Regardless of whether the size of the blocks increase.

Replying to Avatar ChipButty

Translation : childrens online safety is an excuse to bring in internet passports. Centralized censorship and spy tactics. A mechanism to scoop up your data, repackage and sell to the Big 7.

No thanks . Bitchat provides a possible solution.

the last and everything between. No other like it.

Respectfully disagree.

1. Silence can be interpreted as tacit approval of eroded values.

2. Fear can enforce silence.

3. Silence about shameful acts of pedophilia allows sick fucks to continue abuse.

4. We learned during lockdown, how media silenced vaccination deaths.

5. Silence was the perfect playground to break minds.

So no. You are using a protocol that embraces free speech and you want it silenced.

That's what happened to journalists like Julian Assange. Doctors, lawyers, scientists were deregistered , debanked and silenced for what they believed in.

Export yourself to fb and try your experiment there.

Read my note again. I want to understand the following:

1. Why wasn't this addressed in an open forum.

2. This directly affects BTC nodes. What is the impact on them?

3. I sense the deep resentment from both sides and name calling seems to be your response. So

4. Who benefits?

5. Who suffers?

6. Where does it leave the nodes.

The silence is deafening .

Who has the power to force people against their will?

Why is it happening?

What is the future for BTC Core.

I knew nothing of the split inside Bitcoin Core. But I understand Marty and Matt were aware of it. The anger comes from finding out about the split from Mathew Kratter and he backs it with relevant evidence. Calling him a snake is a deliberate psyop to denigrate. I've seen that pattern before.

My point is this:

1. This first broke out in 2013.

2. Did Marty and Matt decide that Bitcoin Core is a nothing burger. They made a choice - to keep followers in the dark by implying nothing to see here.

If that is the case that is not BTC Protocol .

3. Someone had a thread advertising a podcast with Jeff Booth over this issue . It didn't happen.

4. Trust is the big issue here. Verified trust.

5. And as for the BTC Nodes

4.

I sent a similar note to Matt ODell.

1. What is happening to BTC Core Developers .

2. This shit happened in 2013 and I didn't know anything about this until Bitcoin Knot nodes turned up in my feed.

3. Originally I thought BTC nodes and BTC knots were one and the same.

4. They are not.

5. I usually follow you and Matt and yet nothing from you two.

6. I fucking trusted you two.

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

There are those who say Bitcoin doesn't scale, and build blockchains with more throughput at the cost of more centralization (generally in the form of it being way harder to run a node), and then also point to Bitcoin as having low fees as a criticism.

The limiter it turns out, 16 years in, is not how many people *can* self-custody bitcoin. It's how many people *want* to.

Not everyone wants to deal with the technicalities of their own car, and not everyone wants to handle the technicalities of their own money. Quite few, in fact. It's always a subset for these types of things. People who are hardcore over their area of knowledge.

I leave my car details to pros down the street who I know the name of, and handle my money myself. There are those who handle their own cars but leave their money details to others.

Bitcoin currently processes about as many transactions per year as Fedwire, which handles $1 quadrillion worth of gross settlement volume per year for the US and for a good chunk of the world (in context, it's approximately 200 million $5 million average-sized transactions). That's actually a crazy stat. Bitcoin is casually this open-source global Fedwire with its own scarce units, and unlike Fedwire anyone can permissionlessly build on it or transact with it, for low fees despite it being a +$2T network. And if it gets clogged there are all sorts of permissionless layers above it with certain trade-offs.

Some people say paper bitcoin holders detract from the network. I say the opposite- their willingness to hold IOUs helps add to price stability and network size without clogging it. That leaves more room for cypherpunks to develop with, and work on. And those who finance them.

This has been foreseen as early as Hal Finney in 2010, when he wrote about bitcoin banks (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2500.msg34211#msg34211).

We live in a sweet spot by most metrics. A golden age. Historically, so few recognize it when they have it so good.

Bitcoin is big enough to be of interest to many, and yet is still niche enough in a global context to have low base-layer fees. Suitcoiners are happy to add to its scale, and yet cypherpunks can also build, and users can transact right on the base layer, and move to Lightning and Ark and BitVM and Liquid and any sort of trade-off they want if fees get high.

And you're bearish, anon?

The real battle, though, is the ongoing government crackdown on privacy.

Bitcoin itself is in a pretty good technical place. It's a great tool. Certain conservative low-risk covenants might make it better, but even the existing design space is great and still expanding.

The US, Europe, and China cracking down on privacy is the threat. The headwind. And they're all expected. They're not surprising, but they're indeed fierce. That's the real battle- for the hearts and minds of people to embrace why privacy and permissionlessness are good traits.

In this ongoing funny contrast between podcasters and developers, that's the ideal role of podcasters- to spread the good news of what developers have built. To educate people. To tell them what's now possible thanks to developers. To articulate why cypherpunk values are good to a broad non-technical audience. That's where the overlap is. In overly-simplistic D&D terms, those with high CHA try to spread the work of those with high INT. It's not so much that "governments" are the problem. Governments often at least partially represent the people. If you convince a lot of people that privacy and sound money are good things, then you defang the problem. And you also challenge them legally in jurisdictions where it makes sense.

The technical foundation is good. The development of the past 16 years has been amazing, and it has brought us here. The scale has reached institutions, which is expected, not a threat. The actual threat is not treasury companies; it's anti-privacy regulations by governments. And more deeply that's a social issue, given how many people accept it. A vast amount of people believe privacy is only important for bad people who have something to hide. There's a ton of education work to do on it. Privacy is good. It's the default. But most people don't realize it when it comes to money.

We're winning. For 16 years ya'll have been amazing. But we'll need another 16 years more. More developers. More podcasters. All of it. We're a $2 trillion in market cap entering into a global fiat network of hundreds of trillions. And as their own institutions melt down from their own failures, their own top-heavy demographics and false promises, they will look for scapegoats. They will look toward those who are winning, and say they are the enemy.

When interviewers ask my price predictions, I tend to be conservative. That's mostly a liquidity assessment, and a rotation from OGs to new buyers. Price growth does take time.

But under that surface, I also have the benefit of being a general partner at among the largest bitcoin-only venture funds. I see what people are building, and I'm bullish. And for those who are working on stuff that doesn't align with profit, entities like the HRF and OpenSats are doing great work. Across all of the options, people are building great things.

I couldn't be more bullish on the ecosystem that's in place. All of you.

Let's go.

Good evening.

Sound money and privacy.

I've come across some in my crypto meetup that believe in or have done

1. keeping their BTC on the exchange

2. in a hot wallet on their phone

3. in a ledger wallet and they've lost the seed phrase.

Each of these issues - are not 5 minute fixes and yet a quick fix is expected .

So when I ask them how much time have they got, to understand what they hold - I get the glazed look.

Supplying them with one or at most two links - I get the glazed look.

When I tell them you are holding plan B - if one day the ATMs are closed, the internet goes down or the power grid is shut off - I get the "there is no way that any of that will happen ".

Now I understand how Jehovah Witnesses feel.

But in saying all that -

1. I've learned to listen.

2. Not make assumptions .

3. Understand we all have our own realities and therefore different priorities.

4. Realize that some do NOT like talking about money.

5. Some need to feel pain, before they wake up to the alternatives .

Does this put me off?

Hell no

I consider myself as the gardener . Enriching the soil and planting seeds.

pt2 - sorry I stuffed up.

4. B gives the code to his local broker, pays a fee and collects the sats.

5. The transaction is informally recorded by both brokers and the debt is settled later, through various means such as cash, goods, services etc

without a direct money transfer .

6. Its fast, and fees need to be low, to make this work.

Fun fact -

Hawala is still practiced today from Persian times. Western countries outlawed it.

And it works with offline networks.

The gatekeepers are the brokers - I don't have an answer for this.

Perhaps someone else like Lyn Alden can give us a clue.

Replying to Avatar Richard Martin

I find there is way too much antisemitic propaganda being spread on Nostr. Of course, we can’t ban it, but we can counter it with facts and logic. This is my take.

Israel’s War of Self-Defense Is Not Genocide

On October 7, 2023, the world witnessed atrocities that shocked the human decency: mass killings, kidnappings, rapes, and the deliberate targeting of civilians by Hamas-led forces inside Israel. These were not military operations; they were war crimes and crimes against humanity. Israel’s response, the campaign in Gaza, is lawful self-defense under international law. Yet in much of the global discourse, Israel has not only been denied recognition of that right, it has been accused of committing genocide.

This accusation is not only wrong in law and fact; it is a dangerous inversion of reality, a projection of Hamas’s own openly declared genocidal aims.

Lawful Self-Defense, Not Genocide

International law is clear: a state attacked by an armed group may use force in self-defense. The only limits are the laws of armed conflict—distinction, proportionality, and precautions. Israel’s campaign in Gaza, however contested in its execution, falls within that framework.

No international tribunal has ruled that Israel is committing genocide. The International Court of Justice (ICJ), hearing South Africa’s case, has issued provisional measures—essentially, a legal caution to prevent irreparable harm while the case proceeds. That is not a merits judgment, and certainly not a finding of genocide. Civilian casualties, even on a tragic scale, do not by themselves prove genocidal intent. Intent to destroy a group “as such” is the legal threshold, and no such determination has been made.

By contrast, Hamas’s own methods are textbook war crimes: taking hostages, using civilians as human shields, fighting in civilian garb, embedding weapons and command centers in hospitals and schools. These practices are not incidental; they are deliberate strategy.

The Double Standard

The accusations against Israel are amplified by a global double standard. Israel is the only country in the world with a standing agenda item against it in the UN Human Rights Council. No other conflict—whether Syria’s civil war, Russia’s destruction of Chechnya, much less its ruthless invasion of Ukraine, the U.S.-led campaigns in Mosul and Raqqa, or Saudi airstrikes in Yemen—has been so routinely framed as genocide. Civilian suffering in those wars was and is immense, yet it never generates the same language or global fury.

When casualty figures emerge from Hamas-controlled institutions in Gaza—literally seconds after an IDF strike, which defies logic and experience—they are frequently taken at face value and reported uncritically. Israeli statements, by contrast, are doubted or dismissed. International scrutiny is healthy and necessary—but it must be consistent. Otherwise it corrodes the credibility of humanitarian law itself.

Antisemitism Old and New

Behind the double standard lies a deeper poison: resurgent antisemitism. Since October 7, attacks on synagogues, harassment of Jewish students, and chants calling for Israel’s destruction have surged worldwide.

The logic is depressingly familiar. For centuries, Jews were accused of murdering children or conspiring against nations. Today, Israel is cast as the child-killer or genocidaire. The structure is the same: the people historically targeted for extermination are accused of perpetrating extermination. This is the old blood libel in modern dress.

Projection and Inversion

Nowhere is this clearer than in the rhetoric of Hamas and its supporters. Hamas’s 1988 charter openly called for the eradication of Israel, wrapped in antisemitic language. The slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is widely understood as a call to eliminate Israel altogether. If carried out, it would mean the expulsion or destruction of the Jewish population between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean.

When those who chant such slogans accuse Israel of genocide, it is psychological projection—a rhetorical inversion. They attribute to Israel the very crime they themselves advocate. This is not simply hypocrisy. It is a deliberate strategy to delegitimize Israel’s right to defend itself and to reframe Hamas’s campaign of terror as “resistance.”

The Core Reality

Israel is not exterminating a people. It is fighting a militant movement that has made Gaza into a fortress of tunnels and human shields. The objective is to dismantle Hamas as a political and military actor, because coexistence with an organization dedicated to Israel’s destruction is impossible. Treating Hamas as a legitimate government would be like recognizing Nazi Germany after 1945.

Civilian suffering in Gaza is real, and it matters. Israel has responsibilities to minimize it, and alleged violations should be investigated individually. But the root responsibility lies with Hamas, which embeds itself deliberately within that suffering, hoping that every death will serve as a weapon in the propaganda war.

The Way Forward

Israel’s duty is to fight lawfully, mitigate harm, and remain accountable. The world’s duty is to apply humanitarian law consistently, to recognize antisemitism when old libels are repackaged, and to support the principle that Israel has the same right to exist in security as any other state.

Calling Israel genocidal while ignoring Hamas’s genocidal intent is more than a lie—it is projection, inversion, and a betrayal of historical truth. The Jewish people, who survived the greatest genocide of the 20th century, will not bow to that blood libel in the 21st.

USS Liberty - explain that.

No, India is not a third world country. This is an attack on BRICS+, specifically China. China has USA by the short and curlies.

1. China holds the most Treasury bonds.

What happens if China sells them back to USA?

USA is forced to buy them back - with what?

The printer will go brr.

What happens if China demands payment in gold? It too, is also a global reserve currency .

The underlying threat is to stop the yuan from becoming part of the global currency.

2. So attacking India is designed to force India out of BRICS. The public signal was USA weaponising Pakistan to attack India. This weakens BRICS.

My assumption is USA's threat on India will backfire.

3. The biggest threat is that China has cornered the rare earth minerals - USA desperately needs them for military weapons. So, China is humbling USA through bureaucratic overload.

China's playbook is the game of Go. USA is playing chess.

The same tactic was used in Vietnam . And somebody lost.

Replying to Avatar MT

Stealing a comment made by Saifedean Ammous - and using it to attack Jack Mallers shows how stupid YOU are.

Knowledge is also a defense mechanism in today's chaos.

Knowledge is a fight against ignorance.

Knowledge helps to understand the story from both sides of the coin.

For a country sanctioned by the West for a long time, limited energy and internet access

It has trade. It has nuclear power. It has BTC.

Media won't touch this - because it shows how sanctions fail.

I speculate - it has help from the Swiss.