I meant "break the monetary system" as in "causing wheat to not be shipped from Ukraine because the seller doesn't trust the buyer's escrow service."

Having the largest (and arguably most trusted) GDP on the planet simply walk away from its sovereign debt overnight is not "controlled" in any version of the English language with which my thesaurus is familiar.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.