>>19156 You guesses seem about right to me. Great Powers are still jockeying for position despite all the hew and cry about when and how the Great Reset might happen (yes, it's still HAPPENING but how and when is always an open question). So while it's easy to imagine these systems slowly shuffling toward global hegemoney, I'd suggest that the more realistic modern parallel is the desire to "merge comfortably" the Soviet Union and the USA as expressed like maybe a century ago or so by organizations such as The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; indeed, that never really happened, the USSR is gone, and now the US has always been at war with Russia again. The other thing to watch is the crypto-style central bank currency. I lost contact with one of the really interesting guys I used to know who was talking about this back at the end of 2015 in cagey terms, unfortunately, but he's good with early tips that wind up making more sense down the road. The Chinese patent trolling (cf. America Invents Act) and infiltration of the tech sector was a gambit to get in and be able to control the means and methods of cryptography before any such switch to an electronic currency. So now, as usual, we're stuck in a damned if you do / damned if you don't situation where this awful bill is in some sense of a legitimate national secutiy importance as far as maintaining sufficient technological dominance that a Chinese electronic currecy wouldn't overtake or undermine our own. Of course the government will most likely fumble that as usual and turns all the powers of this legislation and more against its own people because we live under a variously seditions and treasonous anti-American government.