Russia, China, Thailand, Bolivia... what do all these countries have in common? Lack of freedom and human rights. (BTW, BTC seems ok in India, new exchanges etc have opened)
Saying Bitcoin is "the Man up to his same old tricks" is like saying that women's liberation was planned by "the Man" to put pressure on the middle east and other countries.
The interesting thing is, in the brief post Soviet period when when relations between the West and the Russian Federation were at their sweetest during the Yeltsin perestroika era. That is when Russia was most 'free' and the time when Russia was in full on embrace with Western capitalist economics and policies. Unfortunately it was also the time of huge bread queues waiting on deliveries to come to practically empty shop shelves and poverty amongst the masses of the Russian population like we have never known in the west for a very very long time, whilst
Jewish oligarchs in cahoots with Western finance, bought up the rights to all Russia's raw materials and national assets for pennies on the dollar, enriching a very select few, whilst the Russian state and most of the population went to the dogs. That was the only time in history when I can remember Russia or it's leaders getting a good press in the West. Since Putin came in and started to seize much of it back under state control and into the hands of his own cronies, we have started not to like Russia so much again.
A Western style liberal democracy is not in the interests of the vast majority of nations on this Earth, as adopting the kinds of policies that the West likes, opens them up to exploitation from external sources. That is why Western governments are so insistent that countries all over the world (especially oil rich or geo-poltically strategic ones) adopt Western values and policies.
Why does it have to be all the dominoes falling rather than just take this news for what it is?
Maybe other countries follow, maybe not. Perhaps it was the NSA, perhaps it was an independent programmer.
Saying it with such certainty is ridiculous.
If I were typing in German, they have a whole range of 'subjunctive' verbs that can be used to imply that something would, could, or might, be the case. But since I am typing in English, I will have to stick to saying it as though it were already established fact and as though I have all the evidence in front of me.
The fact that US is seen as an evil country for their oil wars, federal reserve banking and NSA spying does not make them a polar opposite to Russia and China. In fact, all of these giants are crooks and US could very well be just the lesser evil.
Or the greater evil when you start to look at the evidence that Wall St funded the communist revolution and the rise of Nazism in 30's Germany, which was also aided and abetted by Big US industry providing essential technology to their German subsidiary companies, without which Hitler would never have been able to wage war.....oh, incidentally, the US emerged from that little stramash with the majority of the world's gold reserves thus forcing the world on the path towards a USD global standard, and went from simply being an economic powerhouse, to thee eminent manager of global geo-politics. Just a coincidence, nothing to worry about.
