[norton]

Unless you are suggesting that they will force a depression - but we will survive it:
You kind of posted your own rebuttal:

If 'the world' doesn't understand, then the world just might go ahead and do it.

[McGavin999]

If they do, they do. You can't do much to stop people from cutting off their nose to spite their face, even if it hurts us. All we can do is pull together and survive and not worry about the crashing economies all over the world.