Simply because that was the deal explicitly written in the Bretton Woods contract... What does it matter and do you have to explain your motives to the other party when you want to exercise your rights on a particular contact?
I don't know the exact reasoning they had but I've read somewhere that after multiple rejections from the US to comply to the contract, they needed to sail to the US in order to show how serious their intentions were. 🤣
10 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr OP 31 Jan
ahh got it.
but surely this wasn’t the first time America was asked to give gold back to a foreign country… right?
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480 sats \ 0 replies \ @ch0k1 31 Jan
Yeah, I would rephrase it like this 👇
This definitely wasn't neither the first nor the last time when the US tried to play dirty and abuse the trust and authority others had given them
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