2000 is 11 years after the Soviet empire began to collapse in 1989. A lot of very dirty state-subsided industries in Eastern Europe went offline in the subsequent decade. Maybe that's what we are seeing?

Sovereignty as a service.

I suppose, but only in the same sense as governments around the world tend to have mechanisms for non-residents and non-citizens to transact business or own property. An Estonian identity certificate doesn't, on its own, allow someone to enter Estonia or live or work there. That still requires citizenship of Estonia, the European Union, or meeting other requirements.

What has energy independence actually done for America? We are still fighting wars in the Middle East.

For decades people were saying we need to end reliance on foreign oil. Well, we've ended it. What has that gotten us besides underpriced gasoline?

Cheap energy inputs make everything else cheaper.

Financially cheap (in the short term), but environmentally very, very expensive.

Don't worry, the rest of the world carries the cost - more so now that the US is out of Paris.

Then the US likes to point out how "unfairly" they are being treated on trade ...

There were 30 million Tether stolen in November.... I would speculate that this revocation is to make it so the stolen tokens are unable to be used.

https://www.coindesk.com/tether-claims-30-million-stable-tok...