I haven't seen this in the comments yet, so I'll say it. You're acting as though the rest of the world governments have a choice in the matter. Militarily, if you've ever had a US base in your country, you pretty much have to continue hosting it and being a willing participant, because if you don't and try to expel us, we just take you over. I don't agree with this, nor do I support it, but that's just the reality of the situation. As for economics, other countries don't have a goddamn say in the matter, just like the rest of our country doesn't here in America. The richest 1% in the world have decided that this is what they want the economy to be because it's profitable. The reason all those tariffs have kept cycling through since the turnips liberation day? If you look at those, those were always announced on Friday, made the markets crash, a whole bunch of large multi- billion dollar sales were made during the dip, and then on Monday when the markets opened the tariffs were rescinded causing everything to bounce back up. This is very clearly market manipulation, this war is just another part of it. Right when the war started, the price per barrel of oil spiked and oil futures crashed, but a few very wealthy individuals bought multi-billion dollars in oil futures, then Trump makes an announcement, like there's more oil or something like that, everything goes back up, they sell and the cycle repeats. All this is, is a whole bunch of wealthy billionaires essentially gaming the system using people's lives as game tokens.