I've played Odyssey and it was fairly fun to play, but Valhalla to me seemed a bit, idk, empty? Not much parkouring around in large towns like an assassin when the buildings are pretty sparse and small.
This isn't really about the current global economic situation, more about like human behaviour.
In the prisoner's dilemma, aggressive options tend to do well only in the short term, so you could see ruthless billionaires as short-sighted, considering their reaping of the earth will end up destroying the ecosystems we live in.
So basically, Gabriel has a hard time hitting you if you just slide around the arena in a circle, using the marksman revolver is a really easy way to hit him while sliding, provided you can hit the coins in the air.
Every dollar spent by the US on Ukraine helps undermine Russia's global influence and protects NATO, which was the US's goal for like 70 years now.