I had just mentioned this on someone's post about the environmental impact of bitcoin. My point was that all the devastation from America's military adventures should be put on the cost side of the dollar system.

Dollar Hegemony Fuels America's Foreign Crusades "Mises Institute president Thomas DiLorenzo joins Ryan and Tho to discuss the moralistic claims behind American foreign policy. These claims intensified with the American Civil War and became a creed of American nationalists by the twentieth century. With the rise of the global dollar and dollar hegemony, America's foreign crusades became ever larger and more frequent. "