Childhood memories are unreliable by nature. Consider the following as a work of fiction.
Growing up in a seemingly average French town near the Swiss border. Peaceful place. Because of its strategic location the town has a well furnished garrison. If anything comes from the East and the Germans can't stop it that garrison is there to do the job and make sure nothing goes west or south of their position. That's where the Russian usually chuckles before saying there is no need for them to do that.
Good stalkers looking at an altitude map will know where that is.
Now being a little child of mixed heritage , I was quiet the outcast in there. But some of the military types knew that I was meant to do something but they couldn't figure it out.
One told me flat when I was no older than 7 or 8: In the town nearby is a place called the Bank for International Settlements. Every central banker meets there on Sundays around 11 am. When you get older you'll need to make sure to get rid of them or humanity will live in slavery. I asked him why he wouldn't do it himself, he replied that he had a family and career, but that the opportunity would come to me later on. A few people could already tell of the terror that would come later on even if they weren't able to put a name on it, they knew there would be trouble ahead as the Cold War essentially weaponized Jews and Muslims against another.
I had no Idea what he meant at the time. Telling things like that to a child is a very bad plan because children talk, and I talked.
Apparently the schedule was changed and the guy that used to fly in from the US for weekly meetings stopped doing so on the occasion.
I was already causing that kind of trouble at a younger age.
The problem is that I was raised with their children and therefore became unable to execute the plan. The education provided there turns you into a calm and risk-averse individual, not somebody capable of successfully organizing political assassinations. That would make people who know me laugh at the idea. Plus I've known a few Swiss (all guys are reservists in there) and they're just nice people.
The guy who told me about the plan was quietly removed from duty and a Jewish music teacher moved in to my school. He had me singing a prayer (i first typed payer lol) for peace in Israel the year later in front of the Jewish parents of the town to showcase his art. A bit later they had me coming to the synagogue with my parents in a story already written on this blog.
The thing is that the window of opportunity to get a ball strike is closing due to technology progress although individuals trained in a national force will always be able to keep it open should they want it to be. On one hand the Russians and Westerners alike are promoting non-violent change as being more sustainable. On the other hand the changes caused by the JFK shooting and 911 seem pretty sustained to me. The likelyhood of me doing what the guy told me when I was a kid is 0%. No military training, lazy beyond measure, a slowly declining health. Not exactly the rebel you're looking for. For all humanity did to help me I'm sorry but if that's your thing well...
In the great fashion of having people do the jobs that provide structure of their own enslavement, I couldn't help but wonder if central banking was not the sole responsible for its own demise, sustainable and explosive-free. While that may seem a preferable option to political vegans out there I guarantee you the economic transition already had a deathtoll several orders of magnitude greater than a political U-turn emanating from a surgical strike.
I know they're in the process of putting everyone into silos so that nobody can get the picture but we're looking at a barely better managed post-soviet transition. That means a sharp increase in deaths from causes like diseases, drugs, alcohol and lack of medical attention. Sounds familiar maybe. What they're good at is preventing people from reacting until it affects them personally. This is done at school to ensure it stays that way.
If you think the idea of getting rid of central bankers is new think again. You've not been taught actual history in a public school.
Average people have been fighting against the top banks involvement in war industry since day one. Governments prevent them from doing so because guess who will lend them the funds for the wars? You don't want major foreign central banks against you as a country because you'll want them to lend to you in the event of a foreign aggression. That's how keeping central banks safe and sound became the national priority in the developped world. So yeah it's for someone else to decide. And please don't do anything stupid. Multipolarization decreaes the one-sidedness.
Now if you think for a second that Bitcoin will save you from that you're extremely deluded. As good as it is it's glorified gold for now. It can help sure, but most of the hard work remains. How do you shift a fiat economy into an electronic one? I'm pretty sure the guys who invented crypto went through my reasoning to deliver Bitcoin. You need to think not only in months and years, but in decades. That's not obvious for individuals. Countries and major religions can run projects through centuries. Again, don't think that bitcoin will make you free from these chains. It may remove some of the weight but without a decentralized and unbiaised organization with the common public good at its core, and capable of besting centralized military planning, then it will just remain a store of value and means of exchange. That's a huge step in the right direction but that won't nearly be enough to tip the balance towards the individual to bring it where it needs to be to prevent masses from living and dying as a result of a handful of people meeting in a room on a Sunday.
I guess the next step would be to give a close look at how centralized organizations implement crypto to serve their interests before a more effective opposition can move forward. Perhaps a reason why the Fed decided against pioneering a first national crypto, sort of like pondering before making a move. That time seems progressively constrained by the market itself as in the repo rate event.
What comes next? Your guess is as good as mine, all I know is that when a Russian official uses the word "crossroads" they mean business. Primakov was a fan of it, he wrote 2 books with this word in the name. Lavrov pulled one recently in an interview so the next few months should be interesting. Come back to this post next year maybe.