This is a balanced policy view of Central Bank Digital Currencies. There is no doubt that CBDCs are coming, but how they manifest will be full of twists and turns. Even though central banks are generally shepherded by the Bank for International Settlements, each bank is heavily flavored by national interests of individual states.
For nations not willing to risk direct military involvement in Ukraine, Technocrats sending advanced robot technology instead makes for a perfect experimental lab to test things without risking the lives of their own soldiers.
Technocrat enclaves at Universities must protect their sources of funding for "research" and thus will never admit wrongdoing or harm caused to students and faculty over harmful COVID policies, "vaccine" mandates and distance learning. One can expect them to hold the same line during future health episodes.