The transfer was carried out partially by buying and selling and partly by physically transferring gold, the Dutch national bank said.

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    Yes. Crisis preparedness is just polite talk for “we expect shit to hit the fan, so we are acting on it”.

    IMO, it’s way worse than just claiming the US is unreliable.

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      The US has been unreliable for the entirety of its history. They relate to both world wars, and they’ve equipped numerous would be terrorists and dictators in various banana republics.

      Also they play Baseball which everybody knows is just Rounders which they renamed