11A Brave New World
It's true what they say: it gets lonely at the top. So, what does the future hold for the strongest nation in the world today?
With the United States dictating global trade through its sanctions and veto power, directly stirring the course of history for over half a century in its favor, the country does not have many friends.
The US's foreign policy has made a lot of enemies for the nation. Hostilities toward the United States will never end as long as it continues to bully other nations. However, the country is approaching a fork in the road.
Shoddy alliances from the Middle East to Europe are beginning to fall apart due to pressure from rising powers in Asia and parts of the Global South.
Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine that diminishes global food supply and disrupts Russian oil pipelines to Europe has already caused a politically chaotic situation, including the election of three different prime ministers in the United Kingdom in this year alone (2022).
As the United States and its allies go up against a burgeoning East, more opportunities will arise to use blockchain as an equalizer in the face of unfair political pressure from both sides.
Alternative methods to settle payments will ultimately be used to bypass sanctions, which will become useless as economic warfare for central powers. Nations will no longer suffer from crippling economies brought upon by these instruments of monetary imperialism. International pressure will amount to the United States ...