Shuffling the cards: same families, secret swaps, one bank

SUMMARYShuffling the cards: same families, secret swaps, one bank (Nov 4, 2026). Tito: "They're shuffling cards... you use different faces, become friends with the opposing side, you go here, you go here. Fog of war."
RECORD, the card shuffled in secret: Louisiana passed France → Spain by the secret Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762), Spain → France by the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso (1800), France → US by sale (1803). Three hands in 41 years, two of them secret, and the nations were party to none.
RECORD, the banker on both sides: the Louisiana Purchase was financed by Baring Brothers (London) with Hope & Co. (Amsterdam) in 1803, so a British bank helped pay Napoleon while Britain and France were at war again (from May 1803). Verify the timing of the payments.
RECORD, same family, different faces: William III of Orange ruled the Dutch Republic and England at once (from 1689). The Hanoverian kings of Britain were German princes, and George III was also Elector of Hanover. By 1914 George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II were first cousins.
RECORD, friend then not: Britain armed the Western Confederacy, then shut the gates of Fort Miami on the warriors retreating from Fallen Timbers (1794), and signed Jay's Treaty with the US the same year

PATTERNthe land changed hands through secret treaties and family thrones, financed across battle lines, while the nations were played as allies and then dropped

LENS (WW9)one table, different faces

OPENproof of coordination during a war (correspondence, secret articles), as against shared interest. Needs deep research.