ok so are you more interested in my thoughts about trying to get a lot of people to sign onto a large political project, or about the specifics of your proposals (rather than their implementation)?
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Did I not strike at the heart of it in complaining about the petrodollar? Is there something I'm missing about that? Honest questions.
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well, I am not an expert in international finance by any means. but i think petrodollars are in a sense less a disease than a symptom in a lot of ways there are a lot of reasons to conduct trade in dollars. yes some of them are simply lock-in, but others have to do with supply
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second, it lets you anticipate some potential failure modes for your agenda to avoid things like (eg) starving tens of millions of people when you collectivize land and kill a bunch of people who know how to farm the land. (but for international military power)
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That's why, although I obviously haven't produced very many details about it, I was specific in reminding people that the government and the people are adversaries in my model. My "civil network" and "global protectorate" are an attempted framework for adversaries to cooperate.
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