if I treat you as my brother it means you are not my brother

As most certainly is is, for as means that IT IS 

No different from if the IRS says something IS treated AS something else, the IS is implicitly there along with the AS, it cannot be separated

Not that it matters because what they say IS NONSENSE regardless

bitcoin

Last year I "laundered" 100M sats through LN

DarthCoin

As most certainly is is, for as means that IT IS *of* a particular form that is being stated

No different from if the IRS says something IS treated AS something else, the IS is implicitly there along with the AS, it cannot be separated

Not that it matters because what they say IS NONSENSE regardless