What else could be done? There's not much back story provided even until this point of time.
But, lemme mind you: almost everything could be solved when you have money... that's our sad reality.
When we have no superpower or anything close to it, then money will be one of your biggest capital.
Then again, yeah... I do feel the MC is getting farther and farther from his main goal, but... once the ball was rolled it will roll and roll until it... [ends].
And on another POV, It IS interesting to learn about global monetary-financial crisis of 1997/1998 using this method, if the content was based on real information, that is.
another rambling of mine:
In the end, I always feel that recording of history weren'r objective AT ALL.











Is it a fad in its country of origin to have this kind of story?
I think abusive leaders are just the trend now... #-.-)