Today marks the birthday of Julian Assange, a pivotal figure in the global struggle for transparency and accountability. Among WikiLeaks’ most damning revelations was the “Collateral Murder” footage—a harrowing video showing a US Apache helicopter callously gunning down unarmed civilians in Iraq. Among the victims were Reuters journalists Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen, executed in cold blood.

As innocent lives bled out on the streets of Baghdad, the US pilots laughed and cracked jokes, treating the massacre like a video game. This grotesque indifference underscores the real reason Assange has been relentlessly persecuted for over a decade—not for espionage, but for exposing war crimes. His case reveals a brutal truth: the US government punishes whistleblowers while shielding war criminals in uniform.

The Financial Endgame: Digital Dollar Imperialism

As the US empire struggles to finance its endless wars, a powerful alliance—comprising the US government, the IMF, Michael Saylor, and Tether—is pushing a dangerous agenda: replacing physical dollars with a digital dollar as the global reserve currency. This scheme aims to sustain US hegemony by forcing the Global South—already ravaged by financial apartheid and imperial exploitation—to bankroll America’s debt-based war machine.

How It Works: The USDT Trap

The plan is insidious:

1. Destabilized local currencies and Bitcoin’s short-term volatility push small merchants in the Global South toward stablecoins like USDT for daily transactions.
2. Tether then funnels these USD reserves into US Treasuries, effectively allowing the US government to finance its debt—and by extension, its wars—with the savings of the very people it exploits.
3. A state-controlled digital currency system emerges: fully traceable, censorable, and programmable—functionally identical to a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

Meanwhile, Bitcoin’s role as peer-to-peer electronic cash is deliberately undermined, relegating it to a “store of value” for the wealthy while stripping its revolutionary potential as uncensorable money.

The Trojan Horse of Stablecoins

This push for stablecoin adoption is not about financial innovation—it’s a last-ditch effort to prolong the colonial financial empire. Bitcoin’s true power lies not just in preserving wealth but in serving as the last bastion of individual sovereignty in the digital age.

If we allow the US and its financial architects to dictate the future of money, we surrender our freedom to an unaccountable, surveilled, and weaponized financial system. The fight for uncensorable, decentralized currency is not just about economics—it’s about resisting empire.

Julian Assange’s persecution is a warning. The war on Bitcoin is the next battle.