I wanted to go back, before Alex talked about that, to the entire discussion about the attacks on the banking system, the bank accounts, and all of that. But let’s get out of the weeds and look at the broader narrative.

I had a long conversation with Marty Bent about this on my podcast, specifically about the Bitcoin space and the broader narrative of destroying the concept of cold storage.

The idea is that you should be able to hold your own assets, especially in digital form. We’re on the cusp of moving away from a Eurodollar system toward a stablecoin system, which is going to be secured by blockchains, tokenized assets, and all of that.

But if you can continually attack the validity of the idea that people should hold their own wallets and Bitcoin in cold storage, particularly in the run-up to the midterms, you undermine confidence in the entire concept.

That’s what Coldcard is about. It’s what the Binance hack was about. I don’t even look at half of these things as hacks. I see most of them as exploits deliberately left behind to be used as a means of advancing the broader narrative: “Oh my God, your stuff isn’t secure!”

So what’s that going to make people do?

First, it’s going to freeze them. Anybody who was thinking about getting into this new system is going to hesitate. They’re not going to move their assets. They’re going to do something else with their money, or simply leave it where it is.

And there are a lot of financially unsophisticated people in the world who have money.

My mother-in-law is a perfect example. She just wants to put her money in passbook savings and get 5%. Well, you can’t get 5% on passbook savings anymore.

“I don’t trust CDs. I don’t trust the equity market.”

What do you trust?

“Nothing.”

There are a lot of people in the world like that. Every time they hear about one of these incidents, it feeds their anxiety, particularly among the lower- and middle-class populations.

They’re counting on their pensions, their savings, and their bank accounts. They don’t know what to do.

And they’re not going to go out tomorrow and learn about all this stuff. That’s not meant to disparage them. They’re simply unsophisticated investors, and they make up the majority of the world.

It’s very easy to create that broader narrative for them and then freeze them into inaction.

This is important, Rich. Don’t interrupt me. I’m not done yet. I’m serious. This is important.

Now, in that scenario, what if you wanted to stop people from building the new system because you couldn’t properly collateralize it? And what if you wanted the perfect cover story for stealing the wealth of an entire continent—Europe?

That’s essentially David Webb’s idea of The Great Taking.

You’ve already set everything up, and they have ironclad control over the political system in Europe.

Whereas in the United States, we’re in flux.

And that flux means we have multiple factions fighting among themselves. I’m not saying they’re good guys or bad guys. They’re oligarchs. They have their own interests, but they’re clearly fighting among themselves.

We have a more sovereignist wing fighting against a more globalist wing.

And then, as Alex rightly pointed out, we have all the self-interested second-tier players: the bureaucrats and lieutenants.

Ursula von der Leyen is a perfect example. She’s a Satan. She’s just an order taker. She’s not running anything. She’s getting paid to destroy everybody’s life, and she likes it because she’s a psychopath.

No different from Tom Cotton, no different from Elizabeth Warren, and no different from most of the Israeli politicians, Netanyahu excepted.

You have this second tier of people who are empowered. Friedrich Merz is another one.

They represent those who are getting rich from the agenda of the actual high table—Davos, the City of London, whatever you want to call it.

They’re all fighting among themselves to gain permanent control over our capital, determine the narrative, and set the hook so that when they steal the money from you, they can claim it’s because they have to.

What they want to do is crash everything, leave you gasping for air, and then say, “We’re going to give you this new thing,” while they default on all the debt over here.

And they’re going to distract you with a war.

So, to bring this conversation all the way back to the beginning, to Poland, Germany, and everything else, here’s what this is really about:

Do we have world leaders who are trying to stop that process from taking place and prevent the war catalyst that would be needed to justify the collapse?

Because if we can avoid that, we might be able to get through this with half of our asses intact.