13th book of 2024 complete: Taxing Wars: The American Way of War Finance and the Decline of Democracy by Sarah Kreps With the costs of wars expanding rapidly, politicians are loathe to raise taxes which would bring questions, scrutiny, and pushback So they have turned to borrowing to obfuscate their wars and the costs Thanks to @npub1eg59...pnw6 for telling me about this book after seeing the author give a talk at #BitcoinAtlantis

TL;DR THE US DOLLAR IS COLLAPSING View quoted note →

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12th book of 2024 complete: The Sovereign Individual is a book I put off for way too long. This book should be moved to the top of your reading list IMMEDIATELY!

When we fight other countries wars for them it incentivizes other countries to push their international disputes to the brink of war Of course, that’s the plan. It’s always been the plan to foment wars around the world to help fund the Empire If you don’t think The Regime is good at foreign policy, you don’t understand what their foreign policy objectives are