So far, what people actually considered the "Second World War" had not spread across the entire world, because the "hatred" had remained contained among the core countries of the previous World War.
Gefra, Peng Joe, and the Federation!
If the Federation had not attacked Peng Joe through international finance, Peng Joe's subordinate countries and those nations might not have participated in the war on a full scale!
The other countries also showed no signs of taking action.
For one thing, some of the countries that had fought before had yet to recover.
War was not a simple matter. It never had been.
Many people might think that war was nothing more than sending soldiers charging forward to fight to the death.
But in reality, how could it be that easy?
Bullets cost money, pensions cost money, and all kinds of transportation expenses cost money...
War was a battle of money! Within Federation society, Lin Qi's "Financial War Theory" had begun to be brought up again. The reason it was being mentioned was because of its sequence!
War was a money-burning game!
Great powers could rely on their national strength to recover, but once Small Countries failed to gain enough benefits from a war, they could end up suffering even more severely than they would have from losing—even if they ultimately won!
On top of that, with the war between the great powers underway, those Small Countries realized they could not interfere, so everyone was watching from the sidelines.
Moreover, the existence of the World Development Committee had, in a certain sense, reduced the possibility of a true "world war" breaking out.
Mr. Truman and the Department of Defense believed that, barring unforeseen circumstances, the scale of the war would remain confined within a suitable range and would not spread outward.