As a native english speaker I found it rather trivial to parse without even trying. There's commas, which separate the couple of clauses. The direction of the s

As a native english speaker I found it rather trivial to parse without even trying. There's commas, which separate the couple of clauses. The direction of the sentence doesn't change or anything like that. It's not as if a comma should have actually been a semicolon. 'and shortly' could have been a new sentence but honestly it connects better with the conjunction. 'cringe' is great as it injects some emotion to an otherwise very dry and long sentence. Your real complaint should not have been about the construction of this sentence, but at the complete failure of the article to connect bitcoin to this latest economic disaster. In fact some points of the article highlight the irrelevance. I didn't read the source article this one points to, which might actually connect the dots. This one, though, is pure clickbait.