Tether transferred roughly $70.5 million in Bitcoin into reserves while simultaneously expanding its ecosystem with a new self-custodial wallet.

Tether, issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin USDT, moved 951 bitcoin valued at $70.5 million into a reserve wallet linked to its treasury operations, according to on-chain data from blockchain analytics firms including Arkham Intelligence. The transfer originated from a Bitfinex hot wallet and landed in an address labeled as a Bitcoin reserve account tied to the company.

The transaction aligns with a profit allocation policy introduced in 2023 in which Tether assigns 15% of net realized profits toward Bitcoin purchases each quarter. The approach converts revenue from stablecoin issuance into a growing Bitcoin position held on the company balance sheet.

On-chain records show Tether’s Bitcoin holdings have expanded into one of the largest corporate positions in the sector. Reserve addresses attributed to the company hold about 97,141 BTC placing Tether among the top holders of Bitcoin among private entities. Holdings include transfers accumulated over multiple purchase cycles since 2022.

The purchases have been a steady source of demand for Bitcoin supply. Each allocation removes coins from exchange liquidity and moves them into long-term custody. The structure ties acquisition size to business revenue which links stablecoin usage growth with Bitcoin accumulation.

The strategy also affects perceptions of stablecoin reserve composition. Tether states that most backing for USDT consists of U.S. Treasury securities with Bitcoin representing a smaller portion of total reserves. The addition of Bitcoin introduces price exposure to the reserve portfolio while maintaining dollar-linked liabilities.

Tether.wallet revealed  

Yesterday, Tether announced the launch of tether.wallet, a self-custodial digital wallet designed to bring its global financial infrastructure directly to end users, marking a shift from backend liquidity provider to consumer-facing platform. 

The wallet supports key assets including USDT, Bitcoin, and tokenized gold (XAU₮), focusing on what the company describes as essential stores of value for users, particularly in emerging markets.

Built to simplify crypto usage, tether.wallet introduces human-readable addresses and allows transaction fees to be paid in the transferred asset, eliminating the need for separate gas tokens. The app is fully self-custodial, with private keys stored locally on user devices.

CEO Paolo Ardoino framed the launch as a major step toward financial inclusion, targeting billions underserved by traditional banking systems. The product builds on Tether’s existing network, which the company claims reaches over 570 million users globally.

The wallet is powered by Tether’s open-source Wallet Development Kit and supports multiple blockchains including Ethereum, Polygon, and Bitcoin. The move signals Tether’s broader strategy to expand into direct user applications and enable future machine-to-machine and AI-driven payments.

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The world is finally melting down exactly like we knew it would, and the collective mind-control is so thick you could cut it with a ritual dagger. In my last video, I broke down the absolute psychosis of Donald Trump posting a video of himself as Jesus. When people had the nerve to point out that Jesus doesn’t typically bankroll genocides, vaporize schoolgirls, or hang out on Lolita Express with the Epstein flight logs, Trump claimed it wasn’t him as Christ, but as a Red Cross doctor. 

Right. Because nothing says medical professional like a thorn-crowned deity making people better by extorting trillions. Patron Saint Fraudci must be thrilled!

Trump Our Lord and Saviour is a total psychopath, but the NPC religious cult are still lining up to kiss the ring, calling him a genius for attacking Iran to ‘sell more oil’.

Imagine being that morally bankrupt. That’s some Ben Shapiro, Tim Pool level of darkness – rooting for the destruction of sovereign nations just so the empire can squeeze out a few more shekels. 

It doesn’t even make sense from a math perspective. These geniuses claim the US is going to export its way to victory, but the US actually imports 40% of the oil it uses. They have a massive deficit. Trump’s posting videos of empty oil tankers heading to the US to load up, but newsflash: tankers arrive empty because they’re coming to pick up the 40% America can’t produce itself. It’s a total inversion of reality, and the MAGA worshippers lap it up while the Strait of Hormuz sits double-blocked and dead.

Nothing is moving. I repeat, NOTHING IS MOVING. 

We are six weeks into a total maritime standstill, and the global supply chain is about to snap like a dry twig. Australia, Europe, and parts of Asia are weeks away from running out of fuel entirely. Iran just suspended all petrochemical exports. Russia is throttling helium, which, for the record, is a lot more important for computer chips than it is for birthday balloons. The satanic pedovore cult is systematically sabotaging every pressure point. One day it’s a pipeline in Germany, the next it’s one of Australia’s last two refineries going up in smoke. 

In fact, Australia is literally heading toward a real-life Mad Max scenario. It’s almost poetic that Mel Gibson is from there. When the oil stops, the trucks stop. When the trucks stop, the food disappears. When the food disappears, those 12 years of government indoctrination and fluoride stares aren’t going to help you. People are still talking about working from home one day a week while the shelf life of their entire civilization is expiring. They can’t see the gravity of it because they’re too busy projecting their envy onto anyone who actually prepared.

The “investment” Trump is talking about is a blood sacrifice of your children’s future for a digital prison. 

My idea of investment looks a lot different: 

I’ve been telling you about it since the 2020 Covaids scamdemic. I built my ranch. I got my 15-foot walls, my solar panels, my blue roof to deflect the energy weapons, and my 25 Chihuahuas ready to shred any ankle that crosses the perimeter. I’m watching this apocalypse from a position of total independence because I did the work while everyone else was arguing about paper oil prices. The paper market says oil is $90, but the real-world physical transaction price is pushing $140. Once the bidding wars start between starving nations, you’re looking at $400 a barrel easy.

If you’re stuck in the West, you have maybe two weeks to move. If you want to leave Canada, do it now before they try to charge you a $500,000 “exit fee.” Don’t fill out the forms. Just go to Mexico on vacation and never look back. Places like the anarchist enclaves in Nicaragua offer a glimpse of the future where you can live off-grid with solar power and coconuts while the rest of the world burns. I have already secured my own future there including teak investments that will provide a massive harvest for my children long after the current financial system has turned to ash.

If you want to survive the coming collapse you need to be doing voluntary transactions and leveraging things like the TZLA machine for your health because the state-sanctioned medical complex certainly is not looking out for you. Buy your year of supplies today. Get your TZLA machine before the shipping lanes go dark forever. 

I have finally downloaded the blueprints from source and the next decade is exactly the dystopian comedy I predicted. While the masses queue up for their 15th booster and shuffle into their 15-minute smart city prisons, those of us with functioning frontal lobes are already exiting the simulation. This is the era of the parallel society where we trade outside their digital currencies and grow our own food while they eat the bugs and pretend to be happy. I am giving away the April issue of the Dollar Vigilante for free right now because frankly the window to escape is closing faster than a bank vault during a liquidity crisis. 

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via TheLastAmericanVagabond.com: Joining me once again today is James Corbett, here to discuss Trump’s actions around the Strait of Hormuz, how they have affected the global economy, and whether all of this is just another step in the the bipartisan Great Reset agenda or just another US government blunder driven by the Zionist state of Israel. We discuss the larger idea of the Technate and its connections to today, the Network State agenda and its role in the technocratic transition, as well as the historical role that energy has played in the control of our lives by central planners—and the obvious connection all of this has to the agenda playing out in front of us.

VIDEO COURTESY OF THE LAST AMERICAN VAGABOND RUMBLE / ODYSEE / BITCHUTE / YOUTUBE

SHOW NOTES (COURTESY OF THE LAST AMERICAN VAGABOND)

The Last American Vagabond

WTF Happened in 1971? | The Corbett Report

No, Albert Pike Did Not Predict World War III | The Corbett Report

Data is the New Oil | The Corbett Report

James Corbett Archives – The Last American Vagabond

(15) DADA on X: “Have you seen this Iran theory? What’s your thought on it? https://t.co/9TdmIqUCzB” / X

(21) The White House on X: “World’s most powerful reset. https://t.co/PjQClB0fVx” / X

(21) Rapid Response 47 on X: “https://t.co/ALLvAMd08T” / X

(21) Alex Jones on X: “WE ARE IN A NEW WORLD WAR!!! Trump Warns Any Iranian Ships Coming Close To US Blockade Of Hormuz Will Be “ELIMINATED!” “Now With The Blockade Of The Strait Of Hormuz, Trump Only Gets Us Into Deeper Quicksand! This Is COVID 2.0 — This Is The Great Reset!” WATCH/SHARE THE https://t.co/vfymEnzJpA” / X

(10) Parallel 8 Media on X: “And the whole time it was just part of America’s Energy Comeback… Step 1: Name it the Gulf of America Step 2: Net petroleum exporter Step 3: Record 13.6 million bpd crude production in 2025 Step 4: Gulf exports hit 4.9M bpd in April — heading to 5M+ record in May Step 5:” / X

(21) The Last American Vagabond on X: “A LOT of these posts are showing these images claiming these are tankers, they are not. This is the “ALL SHIPS” tab. Either dishonest or stupid. The image I included is the tanker view from right now. This link is showing ALL SHIPS (zoom out): https://t.co/HHqbkgUZgX https://t.co/vBcfTxe1yq” / X

HORMUZ STRAIT Ship Traffic Live Map

Reports Of US Servicemen Deployed Under Guise Of “Training” & Graham: “Trump Is Resetting The World”

(21) Alex Armstrong on X: “There is a plan for this war and it’s working out exactly as America wants it to. Trumps post tonight is yet more proof of it. The prevailing narrative is that America doesn’t know what it’s doing. That argument is BS. This isn’t about Iran. America is resetting the global https://t.co/x5IzptZ245” / X

Hegseth Unveils “Greater North America”, Graham Says Iran “Is a Religious War” & Worst MAGA Day Yet

(21) The Last American Vagabond on X: “Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich officially announces the start of implementing the “Greater Israel” vision, referring to the annexation of areas from Syria, Lebanon, and the Gaza Strip.” / X

(21) markgoodw.in on X: ““and in the darkness bind them.” the axiom the multipolaristas dont understand, imo succinctly put by the great @_InThisTogether art by the also great @BAZABTC ! https://t.co/fZKVaK6TLx” / X

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1

Peter Thiel-Linked Praxis Wants to Build the “Next Great City” – InsideHook

Gaza’s “Board Of Peace” Seeks To Reimagine The International Order

Trump’s New $2B WHO, FDA Walks Back Food Dye Ban & The US Gov’s Long-Documented Cartel Connections

The Network State Coup And The Engineered Transition To “Tech Zionism”

The Technocratic Regime Change: Under The Guise Of Freedom Technocrats Are Slowly Taking Control

The Technocratic Tiptoe – The Last American Vagabond

Meet The Peter Thiel Acolytes in Donald Trump’s 2nd Administration

Meet the Man Whose Philosophy Has Influenced Peter Thiel and the Technocrats

Donald Trump, Peter Thiel, and the Technocrats

Trump & The Zionist/Globalist Technocrats Are Building Your New Society Whether You

Like It Or Not

Trump At Davos: Globalism Is Dead. Long Live Globalism.

The Fake Globalist Resistance Ushering In The Globalist Plan

Meet Jim O’Neill, the longevity enthusiast who is now RFK Jr.’s right-hand man | MIT Technology Review

Pronomos Capital & The Rapid Transition To A Techno-Feudal State

DOGE: Is Efficiency a Gateway to Technocracy?

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There is something increasingly difficult to ignore about the global economic climate of 2026, and it isn’t something that appears in headlines or official summaries. On paper, the system still functions. Growth has not disappeared, markets have not fully collapsed, and institutions continue to operate with a sense of normalcy. Yet beneath this apparent stability, a different pattern is emerging—one that is far less visible, but far more consequential. According to recent macroeconomic assessments, global growth remains modest, hovering just above three percent, a figure that would typically signal resilience. However, what makes this moment unusual is not the number itself, but the language surrounding it. Increasingly, reports from major financial institutions emphasize “downside risk,” “structural instability,” and “geoeconomic fragmentation,” terms that rarely appear together unless something deeper is beginning to shift (International Monetary Fund, 2026; OECD Interim Outlook, 2026). These are not warnings of immediate collapse, but they are not neutral observations either. Historically, such language tends to surface during transitional periods—moments when systems are no longer behaving in predictable ways.

The modern global economy was built on assumptions that are now quietly being tested. Continuous growth, stable supply chains, accessible energy, and coordinated policy responses formed the backbone of economic stability over the past several decades. In 2026, each of these pillars shows signs of strain. Energy markets remain sensitive to geopolitical tension, particularly in regions where conflict continues to disrupt production and distribution. At the same time, inflation—once expected to normalize—has proven far more persistent than anticipated, forcing central banks into a position where stimulating growth becomes increasingly difficult without triggering further instability (European Central Bank Briefing, 2026). This creates a condition that some analysts have begun to describe, cautiously and often off record, as a form of controlled deterioration—a state in which the system does not collapse, but gradually loses efficiency, resilience, and coherence over time (H. L. Brenner, Institute for Systemic Risk, 2025).

What makes this process particularly difficult to detect is its incremental nature. There is no singular event that signals its beginning. Instead, it manifests through subtle adjustments across multiple sectors. Higher education, for instance, has entered a phase that increasingly resembles contraction rather than growth. For decades, the expansion of universities was sustained by rising tuition and the widespread availability of credit. That model relied heavily on confidence—confidence that the long-term return on education would justify its cost. In an environment of economic uncertainty, that confidence begins to erode. Enrollment patterns shift, financial pressure builds, and institutions that once appeared stable begin to quietly restructure or, in some cases, disappear entirely (Keller & Strauss, Journal of Educational Economics, 2025). This is not a sudden collapse, but a gradual thinning—one that may only become fully visible in hindsight.

A similar pattern can be observed within agricultural systems, though it is often overlooked due to the assumption that food production is inherently resilient. In reality, modern agriculture operates within a highly optimized framework that depends on consistent access to inputs such as fertilizers, fuel, machinery, and global logistics networks. These inputs are not optional; they are essential to maintaining current levels of productivity. When economic conditions tighten, even slightly, the ability of producers to maintain these inputs becomes compromised. The result is not immediate scarcity, but a gradual decline in efficiency. Yields begin to fluctuate, costs increase, and the margin for error narrows. Over time, this creates pressure that extends beyond individual producers and begins to affect the broader system. Food availability may remain sufficient in aggregate terms, but distribution becomes uneven, prices become volatile, and vulnerabilities become more pronounced (Anderson et al., Global Food Systems Review, 2026).

What connects these developments is not simply economic pressure, but behavioral response. Economic systems are, at their core, reflections of human expectations. When those expectations shift, the system itself begins to change. One of the more subtle indicators emerging in 2026 is a gradual decline in public confidence—not necessarily in a dramatic or measurable way, but in patterns of behavior. Individuals become more cautious in their spending, more selective in their movements, and less trusting of institutional reliability. These shifts are not driven by a single event, but by a growing perception that stability is no longer guaranteed. Research into economic psychology has long suggested that such perception-based changes can have cascading effects, influencing everything from consumption patterns to social cohesion (R. D. Halvorsen, Behavioral Economics Quarterly, 2024).

As these behavioral adjustments take hold, they begin to interact with existing structural weaknesses, creating feedback loops that are difficult to interrupt. Reduced spending leads to slower economic activity, which in turn reinforces uncertainty. Lower investment results in reduced output, which contributes to price instability. These dynamics are not new, but what distinguishes the current environment is the limited capacity for intervention. High levels of public and private debt constrain policy options, while persistent inflation limits the ability of central banks to stimulate growth without unintended consequences. This combination reduces the system’s ability to absorb shocks, increasing the likelihood that smaller disruptions may have disproportionately large effects (Global Risk Consortium, 2026).

Looking ahead toward 2030, the challenge becomes one of interpretation rather than prediction. There is no official model that forecasts systemic collapse within this timeframe, yet there is a convergence of indicators suggesting that significant structural adjustments are likely. Some analysts have pointed to the intersection of technological disruption, particularly in the labor market, with existing economic pressures as a potential catalyst for broader transformation. The rapid integration of artificial intelligence into key industries introduces a variable that is both economically significant and difficult to model accurately. While productivity gains are expected, the distribution of those gains remains uncertain, raising questions about employment stability and income distribution in the years ahead (Chen & Alvarez, Future Labor Dynamics Report, 2026).

At the same time, less formal narratives have begun to emerge—interpretations that exist outside traditional economic frameworks but reflect a growing sense of unease. These narratives often describe the current period as a transition phase, a kind of prelude to a larger systemic reset. While such language may lack empirical precision, it serves a psychological function, providing a framework through which uncertainty can be understood. Historically, periods of prolonged instability have often been accompanied by the resurgence of such interpretive models, as individuals seek patterns in environments that no longer appear predictable.

What is particularly striking about the present moment is not the presence of any single risk factor, but the alignment of multiple pressures across different domains. Economic, geopolitical, technological, and social variables are all interacting simultaneously, creating a level of complexity that challenges traditional analysis. In such environments, outcomes are rarely linear. Small changes can produce disproportionate effects, and systems that appear stable can shift rapidly once certain thresholds are crossed.

None of this implies inevitability. Systems are capable of adaptation, and history provides numerous examples of recovery and transformation. However, it does suggest that the current trajectory is not one of simple continuity. The assumption that existing structures will persist unchanged is increasingly difficult to support. Instead, what emerges from the data, the trends, and the underlying patterns is a picture of gradual transformation—one that may not be immediately visible, but is nonetheless underway.

The difficulty lies in recognizing such transformation while it is still in progress. By the time it becomes obvious, it is no longer unfolding—it has already occurred.

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In online discourse with empire apologists these past few months I’ve been told that the number of dead protesters is thirty thousand, forty thousand, fifty thousand, sixty thousand, seventy thousand, eighty thousand, ninety thousand, and a hundred thousand.

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The most common pro-war talking point about Iran is that they massacred tens of thousands of protesters in January of this year — but what’s funny is that they never cite the same number. Because it’s a completely fictional story, they can just make up any number they want.

In online discourse with empire apologists these past few months I’ve been told that the number of dead protesters is thirty thousand, forty thousand, fifty thousand, sixty thousand, seventy thousand, eighty thousand, ninety thousand, and a hundred thousand. 

They really do seem to just throw out whatever number feels believable in a given moment. I recently saw an exasperated Glenn Greenwald ask an interlocutor on Twitter, “How do you decide when to claim that Iran killed 30,000 protesters, or 45,000, or 70,000? Does it depend on the day of the week or lyrical flow or something else?”

Iranian regime change muppet Reza Pahlavi claimed in January that 50,000 protesters had been massacred by the Iranian government that month.

Notorious Korean propagandist Yeonmi Park put the number at 40,000.

In February, President Trump said it was 32,000. By April he had inflated that number to 45,000, and then later climbed it up to 60,000.

Last month I saw The Australian’s Cameron Stewart swelling the number to 80,000.

In February there was a viral tweet by a propaganda account called The Persian Jewess asserting that “90,000 protesters have been killed to date,” while right wing influencer Nicholas Lissack said it was actually 100,000.

The other day someone commented on a post of mine telling me “Iran killed over 40k protesters standing up for freedom,” and when I dismissed that claim another empire apologist came in and adjusted the number to 30,000.

The reason they can’t settle on a number is because it’s all made up. 

Nobody denies that thousands of people were killed in the January unrest; the Iranian government itself has stated that 3,117 people were killed in the violent clashes, including large numbers of security forces. Given that the US Treasury Secretary has repeatedly admitted that the US deliberately fomented the unrest in Iran, and given that Trump has admitted to sending weapons into the country with the goal of arming the protesters, and given that Trump’s previous secretary of state has suggested that Mossad was intimately involved in the so-called “peaceful protests”, it was inevitable that people were going to be killed.

But the war propagandists couldn’t be content with a few thousand deaths. They needed something more spectacular. Something sensational. So they started circulating thinly-sourced reports by shady individuals claiming the body count was much higher than acknowledged, and then further inflating the numbers in those reports.

And when they did this it made it clear that they’ve been lying about the whole thing, because anyone can see the numbers going all over the place depending on who happens to be speaking and what kind of mood they happen to be in. They made a classic blunder in fiction writing, as explained in a viral post that was doing the rounds on Tumblr a few months ago:

“speculative fiction writers i am going to give you a really urgent piece of advice: don’t say numbers. don’t give your readers any numbers. how heavy is the sword? lots. how old is that city? plenty. how big is the fort? massive. how fast is the spaceship? not very, it’s secondhand.

“the minute you say a number your readers can check your math and you cannot do math better than your most autistic critic. i guarantee. don’t let your readers do any math. when did something happen? awhile ago. how many bullets can that gun fire? trick question, it shoots lasers, and it shoots em HARD.

“you are lying to people for fun. if you let them do math at you the lie collapses and it’s no fun anymore.”

If you’re going to write fiction, it’s important not to disrupt the illusion and snap the reader out of the imaginary world you are creating for them. The narrative about tens of thousands of dead Iranian protesters is fiction, and everyone’s waking up to the lies.

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The software was wrong, but Angela Lipps still had to spend 108 days in a Tennessee jail proving it.

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Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail because an algorithm looked at surveillance footage and decided she matched the suspect. She had never been to North Dakota. She had never been on a plane. A facial recognition system said otherwise, and police took that as enough.

Lipps, a 50-year-old mother and grandmother from north-central Tennessee, was arrested at her home in July while babysitting four children. US marshals arrived with guns drawn. She was booked as a fugitive from justice.

“I’ve never been to North Dakota, I don’t know anyone from North Dakota,” she told WDAY News.

The case began with bank fraud in Fargo.

Between April and May 2025, someone used a fake US Army military ID to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars from banks across the city. Detectives pulled surveillance footage of a woman at the counters. They fed that footage into facial recognition software. The software returned a name: Angela Lipps.

A detective wrote in court documents that Lipps appeared to match the suspect based on facial features, body type, and hairstyle.

That assessment, made by software and rubber-stamped in a report, was treated as sufficient cause for arrest. Nobody from the Fargo police called Lipps before the marshals showed up at her door.

She sat in a Tennessee county jail for 108 days waiting for North Dakota to arrange her transport. No bail. Four counts of unauthorized use of personal identifying information. Four counts of theft. The algorithm had spoken.

Her attorney, Jay Greenwood, told InForum: “If the only thing you have is facial recognition, I might want to dig a little deeper.”

Fargo police did not dig deeper. What eventually cleared Lipps was her bank records, which showed she had been more than 1,200 miles away in Tennessee during every transaction investigators said she committed in North Dakota. Greenwood obtained those records and brought them to the investigators. Lipps was released on Christmas Eve.

The story didn’t end there. While locked up and unable to pay bills, Lipps lost her home, her car, and her dog. When Fargo police released her, they didn’t arrange her trip back to Tennessee. Defense attorneys helped cover a hotel room and food over Christmas. A local nonprofit, the F5 Project, got her home.

As of the reporting from InForum, nobody from the Fargo police department had apologized.

This is how facial recognition operates: it generates a match, law enforcement acts on it, and the burden of disproving a computer’s guess falls entirely on the person whose life gets upended.

Lipps had to produce documentary evidence of her own location to escape charges based on software that was simply wrong.

The Lipps case is not unusual. Last October, an AI system at a Baltimore school identified a bag of Doritos as a firearm and notified police.

Officers arrived armed at Kenwood High School, forced student Taki Allen to his knees, handcuffed him, and searched him. They found nothing.

In the UK, Shaun Thompson, 39, had just finished a volunteer shift with Street Fathers, a group dedicated to steering young people away from knife crime, when the Metropolitan Police’s live facial recognition cameras flagged him outside London Bridge station.

Officers detained him for nearly half an hour, demanded his fingerprints, and threatened arrest, even as he produced multiple forms of ID proving he wasn’t the person they were looking for. “They were telling me I was a wanted man, trying to get my fingerprints and trying to scare me with arrest, even though I knew and they knew the computer had got it wrong,” he said.

Thompson is now bringing the first legal challenge of its kind against the Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial recognition. The man the algorithm flagged as a criminal was spending his evening trying to prevent crime. The technology made no distinction.

What these cases share is a common architecture. A system makes an identification, human oversight treats that identification as reliable, and the person flagged has no recourse until significant damage has already been done.

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When Trump ordered the first wave of strikes in this ongoing war with Iran last month, he did so while his administration was engaged in active negotiations with the Iranian government. That echoed the situation last June when Israel launched a bombing campaign days after Trump scheduled new talks with Iran—a move Trump later claimed was a deliberate deception to help make the Israeli strikes more effective.

This time around, in that first wave of strikes on February 28, American cruise missiles targeted and destroyed a building that ended up being a girls’ school—killing more than 168 young children who had just started their day of classes.

In the weeks since, the specific toll of the war on the Iranian people has been obscured by a thick fog of war and a nationwide internet blackout. But the initial reports and anecdotes that have managed to slip through suggest that the civilian death toll from the intense bombing campaigns on and around dense residential areas has been extensive.

Then, last Saturday night, Trump announced that if Iran did not “fully open” the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, the US would begin targeting and destroying Iran’s power grid and energy infrastructure. Trump did announce Monday morning before markets opened that he’d extend his deadline until after markets close this weekend, which suggests it may have been a bluff.

But still, the fact that Trump is officially threatening this at all is a big deal. Because destroying Iran’s power grid would not just turn the lights off for a few days, it would irrevocably destroy Iran’s ability to sustain the current population that lives there. Food production, sanitation services, water purification, healthcare services, and more would be greatly diminished, if not stopped entirely. And the result would be mass civilian death—even more so if Iran carried out the retaliation they promised and hit similar infrastructure in nearby US allied countries.

As all of this has unfolded in the last three weeks—the surprise attack during negotiations, the violent deaths of Iranian civilians as a result of US and Israeli bombs, and the credible threats of escalations that would significantly intensify civilian deaths—anyone who has voiced any concern about the ethics of any of this has been either dismissed by the administration and its supporters as a naïve utopian pacifist or demonized as a serious internal impediment to an operation that will finally bring about the kind of lasting regional peace that virtually everyone claims to desire.

But ethics matter, especially in war. War is no trivial subject. It’s violence on the widest scale. At their best, wars can throw off the worst tyrannies and liberate the oppressed. But they can also bring about the worst atrocities.

That’s why it is so important to have a firm and precise understanding of when violence is justified. History shows that, without this, it is far too easy for our healthy human responses to real atrocities and tyrannies to be funneled into support for further crimes that only trap us in an escalating series of indiscriminate revenge cycles that create a more violent, tyrannical, and lawless world. Truly just wars are only possible when grounded in a precise understanding of what is and is not just.

And the best single articulation of that in the context of war is Murray Rothbard’s 1963 essay “War, Peace, and the State.” In it, Rothbard clarifies that the difference between war and all other questions of crime and punishment is simply a matter of scale. Basic moral truths do not magically change or disappear if more people are involved in either committing or responding to a crime.

In any context, everyone is justified in resisting or repelling any invasion of their person or property, extracting restitution or exacting punishment in response to an invasion, or helping someone else do the same. It doesn’t matter what governments say, that is a basic, universal right. However, as Rothbard lays out, one of the most important concepts that often gets lost or forgotten in the fog of war is that violence may only be used to resist or punish the aggressor. Any violence committed against an uninvolved third party in response to a crime is itself a new crime that can be justly repelled or punished.

Just about all of us seem to have a firm understanding of this nuanced but important ethical truth when we, our families, our communities, or our nations are on the receiving end of an unjustified violent attack. It’s when we are mobilized, or at least taxed, to help attack someone else that we’re propagandized into forgetting or disregarding it.

Virtually all Americans understand that the 9/11 attacks were wrong because, even if the Washington-enabled bombings of Middle Eastern civilians or propping up of brutal dictators in the region that convinced the men on those planes to do what they did were unjust, the civilians in those towers and on those planes were not responsible for it.

In recent weeks, the man who appears to have been so upset about this new war on Iran that he shot and killed people enjoying a night out in Austin, Texas, was wrong because, even if this war is unjustified, the people at that bar that night were not responsible for it.

And the man who drove an explosives-filled car into a Michigan synagogue last Thursday was wrong because, even though his brothers and young niece and nephew were killed in Israeli airstrikes two weeks before, the kids in that synagogue’s on-site school were not responsible for it.

But, by that same basic ethical standard—that is, again, uncontroversial when it’s applied to ourselves—the bombing of that girls’ school that killed all those children was a crime. Not the kind of bureaucratic “government crime” that, at most, results in a drawn-out internal investigation and some dry report about how similar mistakes could probably be avoided, but a real (at best) mass-manslaughter that the individuals responsible need to be held accountable for.

And, on that note, Trump’s plan to destroy the infrastructure that millions of Iranian civilians rely on to survive—because he’s frustrated their government has so far outmaneuvered him in the Straits of Hormuz—would be such an unbelievably egregious crime that every American should be absolutely outraged that the politician who ostensibly “represents us on the world stage” even dared to mutter it out loud.

I’ve already dealt, in recent weeks, with plenty of the talking points trotted out by proponents of this war to convince us—and themselves—that actions that are so clearly immoral are in fact warranted.

But, in short, this war was not launched preemptively to take out an “imminent” threat of Iran starting a nuclear war with Israel. It was an aggressive attack launched during negotiations as part of a broader joint US-Israeli effort to protect and expand Israel’s hegemony in the Middle East.

And then there’s the idea that, while war is always a messy business, collateral damage like this is a risk that is necessary to face in order to liberate the region, and really all future generations from the unique threat posed by the Iranian regime.

That is propaganda, not just pushed by the groups who agitated for this specific war but also sewn by the massive war machine in DC that’s spent decades inflating threats to justify its continued existence.

There’s nothing new about this dynamic. It’s a story the American population has been told dozens of times before. The German “Hun” were a unique obstacle to European peace that needed to be taken out. Then the Nazis and Japanese were the great threat standing between the world and peace. Then the USSR was. Then communists in Korea. And then communists in Vietnam.

Then it was Saddam Hussein. If he could just be removed from power, the Middle East would finally enjoy a level of peace and stability not seen in thousands of years. Then he was, and it turned out that Qaddafi and Assad were the real final obstacles. And now, after all that, it’s Iran.

In every one of these cases, war advocates acted like it was a certainty that, if the American people could just roll up their sleeves, contribute a bit more of their paycheck through taxes or inflation, and temporarily set aside any inconvenient moral considerations just long enough for the American war machine to do what was necessary to knock the current villain off the geopolitical chessboard, we would finally see a genuine lasting peace take hold. And it has never been the case. This time is no different.

But even if this were a different situation and this really was a just war that could not be avoided, it would still be imperative to demand that those running the war effort go to every possible length, not just to prevent the deaths of uninvolved civilians but, more importantly, to hold those who do kill civilians accountable.

Otherwise we risk becoming entirely defined by politicians who are gleeful about doing something as dishonorable as pretending to negotiate to set the stage for an unnecessary surprise attack, by a federal bureaucracy that protects the individuals responsible for actual crimes from accountability, and by citizens who shrug off or even embrace a policy that—if fully carried out—would constitute a moral atrocity on the level of some of the worst regimes of the twentieth century.

Said another way, we should not let our government turn us into the kind of unfeeling, evil-excusing, morally-deformed society that Americans have always, rightfully, despised.

Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.

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Deadlock and Attrition

Starting a big war in the Middle East is much easier than stopping it. This is the lesson President Trump is now learning.

After one month of dropping bombs and launching missiles at Iran, Trump has called for a time out. A proposed one-month ceasefire. He even put a 15-point peace plan on the table. It was delivered via intermediaries in Pakistan.

The proposal included a comprehensive off-ramp to address everything from nuclear disarmament and missile limits to reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran quickly put a match to it and countered with five conditions of its own – including demands for reparations.

It was but one month ago when Operation Epic Fury kicked off. What was intended to be a brief operation of destruction rained down on Iran, turned into something much greater.

The initial shock and awe adeptly targeted high-level leadership and missile infrastructure. But the operation quickly spiraled into a larger war of attrition that physically severed the world’s most vital energy artery – the Strait of Hormuz.

The initial success was overshadowed by a grim, structural reality. Market volatility is one thing. Physical depletion of global resource reserves, which puts a big squeeze on every major economy, is entirely another.

Perhaps some limited shipping will be allowed to traverse the Strait as the war rages on. One can only hope. Because if it remains closed for another 30 days, the emergency oil and gas reserves held by nations like Japan and Germany will stop flowing. In fact, hundreds of gas stations have already run dry across Australia.

One more month of this will have dramatic consequences. Namely, it will result in the forced deindustrialization of energy-dependent economies as critical links in the world’s just-in-time supply chain breakdown.

When shipping containers stack up in idle ports and fertilizer plants go dark, the survival of economies across the globe are at risk.

Physical Shortages

Month one, by and large, was nothing. The impacts to the average person were mainly limited to sticker shock at the gas pump. Brent crude briefly spiked above $120 a barrel, and everyone’s 401(k) took a modest nosedive.

Month two, however, is when things really start to get serious. That’s when higher prices are met with physical shortages. The next 30 days are the real make or break moment for the global economy.

In March, the world survived on oil and gas that was already in the pipes and the tanks. The U.S. and its allies tapped into strategic reserves to help buffer the price spikes. But those reserves are a very short-term solution.

Around 20 percent of the world’s Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is currently trapped behind the Strait. QatarEnergy, the world’s LNG heavyweight, has had to declare force majeure on exports.

Most major industrial centers in Europe and Asia keep about 30 to 45 days of gas in easily accessible storage. If the Strait doesn’t open by mid-April, we aren’t just talking about higher gas prices and heating bills. We’re talking about mandatory industrial shutdowns. If you can’t power the factory, you can’t make the product.

Similarly, if you can’t supply fertilizer, you can’t grow food. In addition to being one of the world’s top suppliers of oil and gas, the Persian Gulf is also one of the world’s top suppliers of agricultural fertilizers. What’s more, fertilizer shortages couldn’t have come at a worse time.

It’s spring planting season in the northern hemisphere. Farmers in the U.S. Midwest, Brazil, and India are looking at prices of nitrogen fertilizers that are 30 percent to 50 percent more expensive than they were four weeks ago. And that’s if they can find them at all.

If supply constraints persist through April, farmers will simply plant less or conserve fertilizer. That means lower crop yields this fall. Moreover, it means there will be a global food security emergency that will peak in about six months.

Energy Holidays and Empty Shelves

You may have also heard of looming helium shortages. Most of the world’s helium, which is essential for cooling the machines that make high-end AI chips, comes from Qatar.

High-end semiconductor fabricators in Taiwan and Arizona have about a three-month buffer of these specialty gases. One month’s supply is already gone. If we lose another, there could be a shortage of chips that power everything from your phone to the newest AI models.

If the Keep Out signs stay up at the Strait through April, there could be several disagreeable consequences. For example, there will be energy holidays (i.e., forced rationing) in energy-hungry nations. Factories that make cars, plastics, and chemicals will go dark to conserve power for hospitals and homes.

Shipping companies will also avoid the Persian Gulf. This will add an additional 15-day detour around Africa for goods being shipped from Asia to Europe. The additional transport time will add costs to imported goods.

Many economies were already stalling out before the attacks on Iran. But now, if 20 percent of the world’s oil remains offline through May, it’s a near certainty that major economies like Germany, Japan, and China – and the USA – will slip into a recession.

In short, month one was merely a siren. Month two is the start of the actual physical impact. Specifically, the global economy will move from higher costs to shortages.

A world where shortages of everything from medical instruments to basic consumer electronics and manufacturing components, and essentials like gasoline and fresh fruits and vegetables, could soon be the reality.

The buffer period provided by global strategic reserves is disappearing with each passing day. While the first 30 days stimulated a chaotic news cycle and wild market swings. The next 30 days will stimulate a structural shift in how people live.

Jar Farming for Dummies

At this point, there doesn’t appear to be a quick and easy end to the war with Iran that will restore passage of the Strait of Hormuz. If anything, things are escalating with the prospect of ground troops becoming more and more likely.

So, without reservation, hard times are coming to a town near you.

The just-in-time world was not built for a sustained severance of its primary jugular. When the oil and gas stops flowing, the helium stops cooling the fabrication machines in Taiwan, and the nitrogen stops hitting the soil in the Midwest, the convenience and abundance of modern life break down. So, too, does the debt and the credit edifice that sustains it.

As part of the New Year edition of the Economic Prism, in the closing section titled Preparing for Chaos, we included one practical action you can take to prepare for war, inflation, or the breakdown of an ever-increasing complex digital world.

Many people laughed at our suggestion. Few took our advice. But, for fun and for free, we’ll revisit this simple, but important recommendation…

Assuming you have food storage, and some basic backup power such as a simple battery storage system that can charge with portable solar panels, there is the critical, and often overlooked need for micronutrients.

After two weeks, no matter how much protein and carbs you have, you need micronutrients for your brain and body, or you start losing mental clarity, strength, and a well-functioning digestive system. The simple solution is sprouting.

To get started, take a look at Sprout People. There you will find a great education section – simplified for dummies – and a large variety of nutrients you probably never imagined could be sprouted. We have no financial or business arrangement or affiliation with Sprout People. We’re merely passing on information we believe you will find valuable.

When the time comes, the ability to be a ‘jar farmer’ to sustain health via sprouts will be essential.

[Editor’s note: Get a free copy of an important special report called, “Cash Machine – Why You Should Own this Mineral Royalty with a 12% Yield,” when you join the Economic Prism mailing list today. If you want a special trial deal to check out MN Gordon’s Wealth Prism Letter, you can grab that here.]

Sincerely,

MN Gordon
for Economic Prism

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The new regulations revealed by the Financial Conduct Authority include several technical traps which crypto software providers need to watch for to avoid sanctions

What to know:

• The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has proposed detailed “cryptoasset perimeter” guidance that would bring most crypto activities under the Financial Services and Markets Act by October 25, 2027.
• Under the plan, any firm holding client crypto assets for more than 24 hours, or with the ability to override client authority, would be treated as a regulated custodian and require a full safeguarding license.
• Validators, node operators and stablecoin issuers face tighter rules, including loss of tech-only exemptions when offering added-value features and a requirement that U.K.-based issuers control the full stablecoin lifecycle, with firms given a five-month window from Sept. 30 to apply for authorization.

The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is proposing crypto rules that could quietly expand the definition of custody, potentially sweeping in platforms and software providers that don’t consider themselves custodians.

The FCA published its Cryptoasset Perimeter Guidance on Wednesday, which includes a few technical traps for firms handling clients’ crypto assets.

The rules draw a red line at the 24-hour mark for custody. Any firm or crypto platform or app holding client assets for longer than a day during trade settlement will likely fall under the regulated custodian classification, which triggers a requirement for a full safeguarding-license.

Validators and node operators also need to proceed with caution. The regulator warned those involved in those activities will lose their pure tech exemption the moment they provide “added value” features. That includes things like user dashboards, yields or reward-compounding tools. In those cases, they must seek full approval for arranging staking.

“Our new perimeter gives us the tools to strengthen protections for consumers and support fair, transparent and orderly markets as the sector matures,” the FCA stated in the paper.

Also noteworthy is that for the first time, the FC has addressed the “shadow custody” issue. The financial watchdog made it clear that if a crypto service provider allows it to theoretically override a client’s authority, it is officially a custodian even if it guarantees it will never exert that power.

“The fact that an arrangement involves smart contracts, public blockchains or some elements of decentralisation does not determine the perimeter position or place the arrangement outside of regulation,” the document noted.

For stablecoin issuers, the mandate is equally blunt as it considers issuance legal only if the issuer is established in the United Kingdom and manages the entire lifecycle. That includes everything from the initial offering to redemption and reserve maintenance.

The FCA requested views on these proposals until the consultation closes on June 3, 2026, it said in a separate statement Wednesday. The regulator intends to publish finalized rules in policy statements this summer, followed by the final perimeter guidance in September.

The roadmap forces all entities providing crypto services to transition from the current money-laundering registrations systems to a more strict approval regime under the U.K.’s Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA).

Firms intending to continue in business under the new regulations face a five-month application window from Sept. 30 of this year to Feb. 28, 2027. Missing this deadline exposes them to potential fines and suspensions as well as permanent closures.

Only those who apply during the application period will benefit from the so-called “savings provisions” that allow them to keep operating while the regulator deliberates.

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