It’s very easy to see what sort of minds are making the strategic decisions for Clown World in WWIII:
The United States a few months ago undermined the potential of US stable coins by freezing a few hundred million of stable coins held by Iran. The end result was foreign sovereign entities exiting stable coins. The original goal of using this new currency class as a means to be a Treasury sink went out the window, at least with sovereign entities as well as wealthy whales who do not want their cash assets vulnerable to a single call from Washington DC. Washington had the opportunity to let its enemies integrate themselves fully with stable coins then destabilize their financial systems in one fell swoop, similar to Israel with its pager bombs or its network that it used in the start of the current Iran-Israel conflict in 2025 to wreck far, far more havoc than all the missiles launched by Israel and her vassal “overlord” combined. Likewise they reduced stable coin’s potential for sinking treasury bonds which would’ve driven rates much lower.
But the elite do not have strategic vision, seizing a single small local win on the corner of the board giving up both global influence and an opportunity to strike a crippling blow in the mid-game of the current World War. The US just did so again this week, sanctioning the International Criminal Court and locking the chief prosecutor out of his email overnight. The end result? The state of France banning windows across all government computers.
Granted, it’s very clear that the only truly high-quality strategists out there are Chinese. The Russians never seem to be able to accept the true nature of their adversaries and respond accordingly, while the Europeans are so inverted and hapless that they unhesitatingly put their heads in one trap after another.
These are the sorts of moves that make future readers of history marvel at how stupid everyone was, just as we marvel at how foolish the Great Powers were in the leadup to WWI.
The tactical mind is the one that wins the battle without realizing how doing so has increased the risk of losing the war. The strategic mind, on the other hand, knows what losses can be afforded, and which are even necessary, if the war is to be won.