I suspect it's under the transactional control of whomever provides the details for a sufficiently large bitcoin wallet to Steve Witkov

I agree that's what the US used to do.

Now it's threatening to invade NATO allies, and other allies are deploying troops to deter that; Which makes perfect sense because you cannot appease authoritarians.

The US is in fairly rapid, self inflicted, decline at this point.

Give it time...

The "war" in Gaza?

Seemed mostly like a nation state bombing refugees to me...