Now more than ever, I'm quite certain that almost all countries in the world would jump on any opportunity to get rid of this currency influence.
The world will resume, and so will the progress, and it’ll happen here on Earth unless we choose to do it elsewhere, not because it’s easy but because it’s the only place there is.
Both are power moves. Do you think they're the same thing though?
Yes, power is good way to bootstrap cooperation based on trust. This is a much more effective form of cooperation as you waste less energy on paranoia and watching over your back. You can also base cooperation on submission but then you have to constantly be at an all out war to protect your regime. Much less efficient or reasonable.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/kennedy.asp
> "We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom--and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside."
https://www.indiewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/mad.jpg