The US Mega-Banks and SWIFT money transfer system for the world's reserve currency are Financial Dreadnoughts in time of currency war.
Le privilège stratégique
"It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.”
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, 1794