The transfer was carried out partially by buying and selling and partly by physically transferring gold, the Dutch national bank said.

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    As a Canadian I cant help but interpret this as nothing against Canada, but insecurity about our increasingly belligerent neighbour.

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      That is basically it yeah. The vast majority of gold was moved from the US (essentially 41% of Dutch gold reserves in the US were moved out), while we barely moved anything out of Canada.

      The official reason is “crisis preparedness”, but I believe the actual unofficial and unspoken reason is that the US is simply too unreliable to store our gold.

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      We’re afraid the US might attack Canada and then Canada conquers our gold and keeps it as spoils of war. Not that you don’t deserve it, but better it be someone else’s gold.

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        Idk if we could pull of anything other then a repel, if anything we’d encourage a splitting of the the USA, it’s clear a certain half of the country can’t be trusted and should never have been let back in without letting them fail on their own first.