Stephen Miller told Latin American defense leaders Thursday that "there is not a criminal justice solution to the cartel problem" and that "the reason this is a conference with military leadership and not a conference of lawyers is because these organizations can only be defeated" militarily. (Time) That's the doctrine being stated plainly. Not Ecuador specifically — but the entire hemisphere. Military solutions to what are fundamentally social and economic problems. The template isn't just being built in Ecuador, it's being announced as regional policy. Goebbels would be proud.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. Dwight D. Eisenhower - Chance for Peace, 1953

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BIP-110 violates the epistemological clarity Bitcoin provides. Bitcoin's purpose is verification of present state. Loading extra data treats blockchain as general-purpose database instead of provenance layer. That's category error. Like using a calculator as a hammer because it's solid. Wrong tool for wrong purpose. People keep trying to make Bitcoin do everything instead of recognizing it does ONE THING perfectly. Bitcoin verifies present state of who holds what. That's it. That's the revolutionary contribution. Everything else (smart contracts, NFTs, decentralized storage, whatever) should be BUILT ON TOP of that foundation, not crammed into the base layer. The epistemological clarity Bitcoin provides is its value. Diluting that for feature bloat is the exact mistake debt-systems made: trying to make money do everything (medium of exchange, store of value, unit of account, credit creation, policy tool, etc.) instead of recognizing each function requires appropriate substrate.