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[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Cuba is not in a crisis because it is communist or has an authoritarian government, it’s having a catastrophic humanitarian crisis because the United States is carrying out an illegal siege against the island with the goal of starving and killing thousands for financial gain.

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

The world, Europe, and Spain have faced this critical moment before. In 2003, a few irresponsible leaders dragged us into an illegal war in the Middle East that brought nothing but insecurity and pain.

Our response then must be our response now:

NO to violations of international law.

NO to the illusion that we can solve the world’s problems with bombs.

NO to repeating the mistakes of the past.

NO TO WAR.
https://t.co/KpRjBfwY4B

[X Finance Bull @Xfinancebull]

If you hold $XRP, you need to watch this 👇

Asheesh Birla. A decade building in the XRP ecosystem. Now CEO of Evernorth. And he's telling you exactly what's coming.

Evernorth is building an institutional XRP treasury.

Not paper exposure. Actual XRP. Deployed into yield strategies on XRPL DeFi. Providing institutional liquidity. Running validators. Bringing new partners onto the ledger.

Strip that down to what it means for supply dynamics. Institutions buying and holding XRP for yield.

Not flipping. Holding. That's sustained spot demand pulling tokens off the market.

Deeper liquidity on XRPL means tighter spreads. Better execution at size. The rails become usable for real money flows.

A planned Nasdaq listing opens the pipe for allocators who can't touch tokens directly.

Regulatory clarity is the catalyst. Institutional capital is the fuel. XRPL DeFi is the engine.

Every condition needed for XRP to reach levels most people won't say out loud is being built right now.

Treasury accumulation. On-chain TradFi activity. XRP as working capital and collateral.

Yield markets that make institutions want to hold, not trade.

The path to $XRP above $100 used to sound impossible. That's changing.

Institutional treasuries accumulating. On-chain TradFi. Deep yield markets. Tokenization. XRP as a settlement layer for real money.

Every single one of those conditions is now actively being built.

The road to $100 gets shorter every day.

Don't say nobody told you.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!

[Evrim Kanbur @WhileTravelling]

I teach the Venezuela case study, and there’s one thing people conveniently forget, so let me spell it out.

Sovereignty is not optional. It is the highest priority of any country whether it’s run by geniuses, clowns, or failed leaders.

If a country’s leadership is bad, that is for its people to change. History is very clear on this! When people unite, regimes fall. Unity, not foreign missiles, is the most powerful force a society has.

But here’s the part the “liberators” never tell you! When foreign forces parachute in claiming they’re here to “save” you, what follows is not freedom. It’s chaos, extraction, and decades of abusing resources.

Kidnapping presidents doesn’t create democracy!
Bombs don’t build institutions!
And sovereignty doesn’t survive “humanitarian invasions”!

Expect your resources quietly changing hands.

Open your fucking eyes.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.

Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy."

This is about the petrodollar system that has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years.

And Venezuela just threatened to end it.

Here's what really just happened:

Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.

The largest on Earth.

More than Saudi Arabia.

20% of the entire world's oil.

But here's the part that matters:

Venezuela was actively selling that oil in Chinese yuan. Not dollars.

In 2018, Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar."

They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil.

They were petitioning to join BRICS.

They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely.

And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades.

Why does this matter?

Because the entire American financial system is built on one thing:

The petrodollar.

In 1974, Henry Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia:

All oil sold globally must be priced in US dollars.

In exchange, America provides military protection.

This single agreement created artificial demand for dollars worldwide.

Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil.

This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it.

It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending.

The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers.

And there's a pattern of what happens to leaders who challenge it:

2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.

2003: Invaded. Regime change. Iraq's oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam lynched.

The WMDs were never found because they never existed.

2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.

Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirm this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention.

Email quote: "This gold was intended to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar."

2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.

"We came, we saw, he died!" Clinton laughed on camera.

The gold dinar died with him.

And now Maduro.

With FIVE TIMES more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined.

Actively selling in yuan.

Building payment systems outside dollar control.

Petitioning to join BRICS.

Partnered with China, Russia, and Iran.

The three countries leading global de-dollarization.

This isn't coincidence.

Challenge the petrodollar. Get regime changed.

Every. Single. Time.

Stephen Miller (US homeland security advisor) literally said it out loud two weeks ago:

"American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property."

He's not hiding it.

They're claiming Venezuelan oil BELONGS to America because US companies developed it 100 years ago.

By this logic, every nationalized resource in history was "theft."

But here's the DEEPER problem:

The petrodollar is already dying.

Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan since Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements.

Iran has been trading in non-dollar currencies for years.

China built CIPS, their own alternative to SWIFT with 4,800 banks in 185 countries.

BRICS is actively building payment systems that bypass the dollar entirely.

The mBridge project lets central banks settle trades instantly in local currencies.

Venezuela joining BRICS with 303 billion barrels of oil would accelerate this exponentially.

That's what this invasion is really about.

Not stopping drugs. Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of US cocaine.

Not terrorism. There's zero evidence Maduro runs a "terror organization."

Not democracy. The US supports Saudi Arabia, which has zero elections.

This is about maintaining a 50-year-old agreement that lets America print money while the world works for it.

And the consequences are terrifying:

Russia, China, and Iran are already denouncing this as "armed aggression."

China is Venezuela's biggest oil customer. They're losing billions.

BRICS nations are watching a country get invaded for trading outside the dollar.

Every nation considering de-dollarization just got the message:

Challenge the dollar and we will bomb you.

But here's the problem...

That message might accelerate de-dollarization, not stop it.

Because now every country in the Global South knows what happens if you threaten dollar hegemony.

And they're realizing the only protection is to move FASTER.

The timing is insane too:

January 3rd, 2026. Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured.

January 3rd, 1990. Panama invaded. Noriega captured.

36 years apart. Almost to the day.

Same playbook. Same "drug trafficking" excuse.

Same real reason: control of strategic resources and trade routes.

History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes.

What happens next:

Trump's press conference at Mar-a-Lago sets the narrative.

US oil companies are already lined up. Politico reported they've been approached about "returning to Venezuela."

The opposition will be installed. Oil will flow in dollars again.

Venezuela becomes another Iraq. Another Libya.

But here's what nobody's asking:

What happens when you can no longer bomb your way to dollar dominance?

When China has enough economic leverage to retaliate?

When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP and says "no more dollars"?

When the world realizes the petrodollar is maintained by violence?

America just showed its hand.

The question is whether the rest of the world folds or calls the bluff.

Because this invasion is an admission that the dollar can no longer compete on its own merits.

When you have to bomb countries to keep them using your currency, the currency is already dying.

Venezuela isn't the beginning.

It's the desperate end.

What do you think?

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

This time, Trump didn’t just “intervene in a coup,”
he tore off the last fig leaf of the international system.

Because he sent a naked signal to the world:
If I say you’re a criminal, you’re a criminal.
If I want to arrest your president, I’ll send special forces to kidnap him across borders.

What does this mean?
It means that: except for a few nuclear-armed powers, every other country has just become an inferior nation, vulnerable to purging at any time.

Today it’s Maduro.
Tomorrow it could be an African head of state.
The day after, a left-wing president in Latin America.

Rules no longer exist.
Only force does.

And history has shown us:
• The U.S. doesn’t dare attack North Korea
• It won’t start a full-scale war against Iran
• It won’t touch Russia
• It wouldn’t even approach Cuba
Because their leaders hold one thing in common:
a final insurance policy: nuclear weapons, or an equivalent threat of retaliation.

But Venezuela had none.
No nukes, no satellite shield, no leverage.
Just a president kidnapped, and a nation that couldn’t stop it.

So no, Trump didn’t open Pandora’s box.
He forced the Global South to draw a brutal conclusion:
Without nuclear deterrence, there is no sovereignty.
And that’s where the danger truly begins.

Because when a world order tells weaker nations,
“You don’t have the right to exist,”
the only rational response becomes:
Develop irreversible weapons.

What comes next?
• Regional arms races
• Nuclear proliferation
• Accelerated de-dollarization
• A global strategic shift away from U.S. dominance

The Pandora’s Box is open.
Washington didn’t just kidnap a man,
It kidnapped the last illusion of a rules-based world.

[Ethical American @AmericanEthical]

I see Donald Trump with his hands all over young girls. I don’t see Bill Clinton doing that. don’t let the pedophiles deceive you. Donald Trump is directly involved in the trafficking of minors for sexual assault. #Epstein #EpsteinTrumpFiles #EpsteinTrumpCoverUp

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

No such thing as the August doldrums at @Ripple…very excited to share that we’re acquiring @RailFinancial!

Ripple + Rail together will be THE go-to provider of stablecoin payments infrastructure for global financial institutions around the world. https://t.co/JzUoHjulZB

[Ripple @Ripple]

In partnership with Ctrl Alt and the Dubai @Land_Department, Ripple Custody will deliver scalable and secure storage for the Dubai Land Department’s tokenized real estate title deeds, which have been issued on the XRP Ledger - enabling fractional ownership, transparency, and global access to Dubai’s real estate market.

Learn how Ripple is delivering the infrastructure to power the tokenized economy: https://t.co/K7nawAa3Nn

[RippleX @RippleXDev]

The future is interoperable: @USDC is on the XRP Ledger.

@Ripple and @Circle are bringing the fully reserved, 1:1-backed stablecoin to the XRPL, accelerating DeFi and institutional adoption.

[RippleX @RippleXDev]

One chain. Global adoption.

Now live on the XRP Ledger:
🔗 $RLUSD — @Ripple
🇺🇸 $USDC — @Circle
🇸🇬 $XSGD — @StraitsX
🇪🇺 $EURØP — @Schuman_io
🇧🇷 $USDB — @BrazaBank

The XRPL is ready for the builders, institutions and users who demand fast and compliant stablecoins: https://t.co/FZxs2JGffn

[Monica Long @MonicaLongSF]

Big milestone - RLUSD is now recognized under Dubai’s world-class DFSA regime, meaning it can be fully integrated into Ripple Payments (and utilised by any other DFSA-licensed firms!) in the @ DIFC 🇦🇪

🔗https://t.co/Ko8V3ms1cJ

[Uphold @UpholdInc]

You wanted utility. You got it.

$XRP #Ripple

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

Q1’25 was an incredible quarter for Ripple, with our acquisition of Hidden Road and end to the SEC case, not to mention institutional interest in XRP ETPs globally.

Moving forward, the XRP Markets Report will look a little different. As some may remember, the objective of publishing these reports starting in 2017 was transparency into Ripple’s holdings of XRP, which unfortunately was then used against us by the SEC and others. Our commitment to transparency doesn’t change with this evolution -- we will continue to publish our XRP holdings on https://t.co/M2Jg4dTKON. Ripple & XRP-related ongoing updates will also be shared through existing social channels, rather than collated for a single, end of the quarter update.

[Uphold @UpholdInc]

🚨 $XRP ETF APPROVED.

[Cryptoinsightuk @Cryptoinsightuk]

Gm gm

A nice clip to start the day.

“We believe in $XRP.

It’s a coin that will have the most utility out there.

$XRP has a true use case, there’s just no doubt about it”

[Chad Steingraber @ChadSteingraber]

Break through the green line.. the XRP Weekly MA 10.

And you’re gonna see some serious shit. 🔥🚀

[Krippenreiter @krippenreiter]

[1/🧵] Tokenization, Ripple, Hidden Road & XRP!

A lot has happened in the last few days, and I feel like people don't really grasp the magnitude of what this means for the XRP Ledger. 🤨

Let's take a look at some numbers & address the topic from my beloved "1%" perspective. 👇