• PetteriPano@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Trump has already made it clear that he’s a Russian asset. The only question that remains is if he doing their bidding knowingly.

    How would he go about transferring wealth to Putin & pals? He can’t do business with them, because sanctions.

    Russia already owns 12% of the world’s crypto.

    Trump can inflate their value by pulling shit like this.

    Russia: profit.

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      26 days ago

      There is speculation that a secondary goal here would be to weaken the US dollar as a defacto exchange currency standard worldwide if Bitcoin were to gain prominence.

      That would be highly beneficial to certain “very good friends” of Trump like Putin whom would much prefer an unregulated currency that the US cannot impose controls over when presidents change.

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        25 days ago

        It’s not really speculation that they want to weaken the dollar and dethrone it as the world’s reserve currency; it’s in Project 2025. Stated goal is to transition the US back to a manufacturing-heavy economy, instead of service, tech, finance, etc. Probably won’t work well, but that’s what they’re trying to do.