Originally Posted by
gonnagiveittoya
They aren't making those decisions on behalf of the other countries though. America making a decision that impacts, say, Japan, is not the same thing as America saying "we speak on behalf of the country of Japan, which we are now the sovereign ruler of"
The idea of Mars as a barrier world also seems to be bullshit because in X-Men 1 a giant alien monster is smack in the middle of NYC, so it seems more that they've made Earth a barrier world from Mercury than Mars protecting Earth