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Recall that before Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez was assassinated in 2013 via medical means by the CIA, Chavez repatriated significant gold reserves from New York City and the City of London back to Venezuela. And just as the former United States looted Iraq’s gold, Ukraine’s gold, Syria’s gold, and Afghanistan’s governmental gold reserve, the United States will of course loot Venezuela’s gold reserves of 161 tonnes, too.
Just before the US kidnapped Maduro, the bitcoin spike upward to $91K USd from $87k USd raised intel eyebrows, signaling suspicious activity in bitcoin that the US covert services are particularly known for. Bitcoin chart: https://goldprice.org/cryptocurrency-price/bitcoin-price
While bitcoin is largely gamed by a small group / cabal of bitcoin whales, fact is that the CIA and covert services use bitcoin (BTC) to move funds beyond official scrutiny, accounting, or oversight, whether public or private.
The recent bitcoin spike represents El Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV) input (moved out of Venezuela) to be leveraged later on by the Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) however the ESF sees fit. This way, via keys used by the so-called ‘Federal bitcoin reserve’ [1] there is no bothersome accounting to be investigated by Congress, or anti money-laundering “know your customer” nonsense (AML/KYC banking) to be discovered.
The same happened with Afghanistan’s Central bank in 2021 when Afghanistan’s liquid reserves were converted to bitcoin by the CIA. [2] The foregoing was mandated and approved by the Exchange Stabilization Fund which may trade in any commodity — including human lives — as the ESF sees fit.
In brief, covert services of the former United States (DARPA, CIA) created bitcoin under the pseudonym of a Japanese, primarily as a means to move funds for covert purposes, to avoid congressional and GAO scrutiny and accounting, and shield dark money transfers from public view. [Also see: Iran’s Big Bitcoin Mistake https://theduran.com/irans-big-bitcoin-mistake/ ]
[My source regarding the CIA Afghanistan Central Bank coup is a central banker, a governor to the Central Bank of Afghanistan, until the Taliban takeover. About $7B US remains today in the Afghanistan Central Bank in legal limbo typical of the duplicitous and ubiquitous US American way. ]
Venezuelan Central Bank funds captured by the former United States – and looted Venezuelan gold reserves – may be means to fund a US capture of Venezuela. However, these funds are not immediately liquid, and their deployment must be covert and hidden from public view.
When the former United States provoked war in the Ukraine after the US coup of 2014, the federal government publicly announced federal funding of many billions to support the Kiev regime. As of July, 2025, the Council on Foreign Relations estimated the total US amount “loaned” to the Ukraine [3] at $175B (billion) dollars US. See: https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-us-aid-going-ukraine Of course the European Union (ie Bormann Brotherhood) has contributed many more billions in funds to the Kiev war effort as well.
But now that the US government has allegedly ‘quit funding’ the Kiev regime (a subject obfuscated and riddled with mystery) does that mean such funds will be diverted to pay the freight in Venezuela? In other words, who is going to pay for Trump’s Venezuela regime change? Californians? … paying their federal taxes?
Fact is, not a single commentator is talking about where the US Federal funds will come from, to support the US American intent for Venezuela’s regime change, and to support same going forward.
As above, Biden and the European Union provided significant funding to the Ukraine, with publicly announced funding. So what is Trump going to proclaim publicly about Venezuela? “I am hereby allocating $100Bn in Fed QE to rebuild Venezuela — and perhaps Europe will contribute too.” Preposterous.
Beside that, any proclamation from Trump and the US federal government is as useless as fiction. The United States acts in Bad Faith always, and only. The former United States cannot be trusted by anyone under any circumstance – not even by its own subjects.
Whatever, the fraud that is endemic to this western monetary system and markets is key to the fraud that the west has become. The western monetary system failed in 2008-2009 with the induced failure of a corrupt Federal Reserve Primary Dealer. Then this fraudulent system — based on counterfeit currency debt — inflated its way to the illusory state it manifests today. Where Wall Street cannot even correct — much less meaningfully decline — based upon economic fundamentals. Thus the only means to impact the monstrosity that the west has become is not by arms, but to fail the western monetary system just as it failed in 2008-2009.
To summarize, when will the people hear an US proclamation about how the federal government intends to fund and pursue its new war on Venezuela? Probably never. Just as the funds to continue US operations in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and elsewhere are kept hidden from the people. And it seems that the American people are in no hurry for answers.
[1] The US federal “bitcoin reserve” consists only of bitcoin seized by the US federal government via the backdoor means it has built into bitcoin https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/investigation-fraud-and-risk/colonial-pipeline-ransom-funds/ which the Federales will of course never admit to or reveal.
[2] CIA’s Bitcoin Heist (originally posted 4 SEP 2021) https://novusconfidential.wordpress.com/2023/03/16/cias-bitcoin-heist-originally-posted-4-sep-2021/
[3] Estimated figure does not fully include the cost of weaponry and munitions supplied to the Ukraine since the US-led coup in the Ukraine of 2014. Total amount of US funding of this debacle since 2014, is at least double the CFR figure. Also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUoNFcmfeK0 to learn how historically such “loans” have been laundered to cash.
Steve Brown
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.

The US cabal prints what it needs. If it can print out of thin air it could just as easily pay off the fictitious “debt” out of thin air. But it doesn’t. Because it wants everyone to be a slave to this fictitious debt while demanding physical assets in return for your debt slavery. Revolution and gallows couldn’t come quickly enough.