If the US goes to open war against Europe (say to split it up with Putin), all US demands plus the dollar itself instantly lose any relevence to European banking.

Such a war however would so crash the economy banking itself might collapse into hyperinflation and bank runs.

Personally I think we're heading straight to WW3. This bullying the US is doing against a small org like Autistici Inventati in Italy is just testing the ground.

As for me, I don't have labels. Nor do I want them. I decide with my own head what to denounce, fight for or believe in.

@thisislieven @bms

One way a bank could deal with this is as follows:

1: notify all customers that dollar support is ending, and any account denominated in dollars need to be switched to another currency or all funds withdrawn.

2: When dollar transactions have ended, unfreeze all sanctioned accounts and encourage immediate withdrawal to cash of all funds in case the US tries something else.

Alternately, non-US governments could refund the frozen account balances to account holders with documentation of US sanctions, then tax or fine all US business on their turf to recover the funds and make the whole thing revenue neutral. Tell them to recover from the banks after the US unfreezes the accounts, transfer to them the frozen balances in return for the taxes/fines.

This proposal causes the US to sanction its own overseas business entities instead of the intended targets.

Now from me: Marco Rubio is a terrorist, I am a freedom fighter. Tell him to ask Henry Kissinger how this works...

I can't do Revolut because they're avid LLM users and are too tied to Google in their tech stack, and their privacy policy is quite abusive. They make exercising GDPR Article 17 difficult as they are obstructive in that sense. I CANNOT condone or recommend Revolut in any way.

I've done that myself with a Part 15 device in the bushes, nothing more than a whip antenna and a crude 5 bar signal strength indicator were needed to find that at ranges inside 50 feet or so. Kept finding it exactly where the antenna pointed end on at least signal (the null).

Plus: Revolut is from UK. Revolut supports wero already in Belgium, France and Germany.

Onboarding is also a problem without explicit introduction.

Not any different from the Internet's early days.

Note that those of use who live dozens of miles from other activists not in the same house cannot usefully install mesh networking hardware for our own use short of long range radio gear.

We have to distinguish here between three different things. One is operational communications, which need only reach a few people at a time and most be as robust and secure as possible. In the old days this was (very insecure) landlone phone trees.

The second is internal publication to our own folks, same job military newspapers had during WWII. This needs to be stay out of monitored spaces, and needs to be moving now to spaces that are more difficult to take down. This is where mesh networks in cities can really shine and .onion sites as well for temporary global reach. In the old days this was done with newspapers distributed at public protests and wheatpasted fliers.

The third task is external publication to the general public.

A lot of the folks who get everything from Meta are today unreachable without having cutouts who shuttle selected information between them and "rest of net." These cutouts do the work of the friendly reporters of past eras.

In the old days this job was done by communiques delivered to friendly reporters in the corporate media. Note that these are now much harder to find due to media consolidation, mergers, and precompliance with Trump. This is a problem WWII era militaries simply did not have of course.

Another mode we used in the past was pirate radio, whose range was similar to that of isolated mesh networks in small areas not connected to other mesh networks.

Widespread graffiti and huge posters (like the 1986 "Meese is a Pig" posters in DC) were another method that worked, and which were able to pierce media blackouts. Note that there were no Flock cameras, no facial recognition cameras, and a lot less outdoor CCTV in those days. It was thus a lot easier to get away with saturating a wall with giant posters or a massive "tagging" campaign.

We may have to accept that out of area comms are going to become slow and difficult, requiring things like sneakernet flash drive bridges as noted in the Crimethinc hypothetical at

https://crimethinc.com/2025/03/21/survival-a-story-about-anarchists-enduring-mass-raids