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formerFAIhope

World wars, or multi-alliance international wars, happen when the countries start believing that they have a legitimate reason and opportunity to win. Currently, none of the major powers: USA, China, EU, would ever in their right minds, want a world war or even a drawn-out international war dragging multiple, economically-relevant countries in it. The only time there have been serious hit to the economy in just last 2-3 decades, it's because of financial crises, not the geopolitical tensions. Yes, not even the 2022 Ukraine war, which was serendipitous with the consequence of literal trillions in QE and Covid paycheck-induced inflation, on top of supply-chain constraints that were a direct result of Covid. I know, I know: it feels really "dramatic" and movie-like, when you declare every year how we are heading for, "TOTAL ANNIHILATION!! WORLD WAR 3 INCOMING, THIS IS IT, TIME TO GET IN A BUNKER AND DRINK MY URINE!!!11!!" or whatever fantasy you all jerk yourself to. Reality is way more complicated, messy, nuanced than total all out war whenever it fits your personal narratives. Russia is invading Ukraine, because Putin *needs* to create a crisis to distract his public. America (with help of their western allies) supports proxy wars in other countries, because they know the opposing side is sometimes fighting with literal stick and stones (ie no *real* loss for American allies) and American politicians can exaggerate that to justify giving trillions to their military industrial overlords (and get billions in kickbacks). War has become a business through and through. Capitalism has found a way to absorb any "revolution" in its folds and make profits out of it. Modern, global bureaucracy is not some stagnant relic of the past. It's an ever-learning, ever-growing system swallowing billions across the world. An all-out, global war will be worst outcome *for everyone*, not just the enemy. BTC and crypto generally is falling because there's simply not enough liquidity to go around. Whatever the cartels, smuglers, "muh covert operations" were using back in the day (assuming how true this batshit insane conspiracy non-sense is), was barely anything to leave a dent on the overall supply. Bitcoin really took off around 2016, when Vitalik and co introduced new approaches to harnessing the potential of Blockchain network. THAT is when early smart money moved in and drove the prices up. Because the tech finally seemed useful for "the middle men", the very layers that Bitcoin was promising to erase (a whole another nuanced topic, but the present one is already too much for some of you, I can tell). Then the Feds loosened monetary policy further and a considerable majority of western population was flush with cash, including the VCs. That allowed a concerted push up. And not surprisingly, with each *economic* setback came the crashes in crypto/Bitcoin. Not because your little cryptobro community is some "force of nature" that can only be set back by something just as massive, like world wars or whatever morbid fantasies you kids have. Now, we are living in the consequences of that era, with inflated bubbles everywhere, trillions sitting in funds waiting to be deployed, and central banks barely able to maintain a decent monetary policy because on one hand inflation is still sticky and on the other bubbles are at valuations that make no fucking sense. Then there's the govt shutdown in America and banks at lowest reserves while repo pumping out tens of billions every day. Too complicated, right? So much better to just keep spouting the same quasi-conspiracy slop that gets vomitted in crypto circles every other month, while you all jerk each other off at how "smart" you all are, the only people who "see through it all!!!11!11"

ra246

DRINK, IT, IN.

Schwacolyte

Lol. I DRINK IT UP!

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Yuga Labs has released a teaser trailer for its Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) metaverse. The video opens with a BAYC Ape fishing by a stretch of water when he feels a tug on his rod, hoists his catch, and sees it’s a bottle labeled “DRINK ME.” The video goes on to reference other NFT collections, including Cool Cats and CrypToadz. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*

ArtyHobo

That's a lot to expect from people who need to hear DRINK COKE every time they look up from the cheese poofs at the telly.

slothsan

Feck Arse Girls. DRINK