The Gold standard couldn't be sustained. Basically, the U.S. was no longer just exporting shittons of product and making a killing, it was now also importing a lot. The shift of that balance meant that keeping the ratio of 35 dollars per troy ounce of gold was nigh impossible.
After the USAID thing I called it this morning: Before the end of march the U.S. is a dictatorship in all but name.
To pull this off things have to happen fast, denying anybody the time to react.
USAID was a probing attack, gauge the reactions, develop plans, figure out how to do it better with the next department. You don't start with Homeland Security, the CIA, or the FBI - that's the final part.
Meanwhile, keep everybody busy with 50 different crazy things so they can't organize a concerted effort to resist.
That being said, I'm only half-sold on Greenland and the Panama Canal being a distraction. Once you have complete control you're at the whim of Denmark not revoking access to Thule and Panama not denying passage. Might be both, confuse and prepare.
andsens
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I love that the search results end. Like, "nah bruv, that's it, and I'm not going to make shit up to get you to click ads"