@alimcforever: Replying to @evawhee Money doesn’t just move — it’s routed, screened, and recorded through one global network that most people have never heard of. SWIFT started in Brussels in 1973 when 239 Western banks built a private messaging system to control cross-border finance after the old gold-backed order collapsed. It doesn’t move money; it moves instructions. Every transfer, every correspondent account, every sanctions list passes through the same architecture built by the BIS, the IMF, and the big clearing banks. The paperwork shows how power in finance re-coded itself after empire ended — a quiet system of access lists, standards, and permissions that decides who trades, and who doesn’t. #globalfinance #financialpower #moneyandpolitics #economiccontrol #historyofbanking