The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently boasted in a new white paper that 98% of all central banks are now pursuing CBDC programs. CBDC programs will involve the tokenization of assets, or digital tokens that represent underlying assets like real estate, equities, digital art, intellectual property and even cash. The WEF report is titled ‘Modernizing Financial Markets With Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency.’
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/cashless-society-wef-boasts-98-central-banks-are-adopting-cbdcs
"In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. "
-- James Monroe, speech to the US Congress on December 2, 1823