re: #99 freetoken

Except that we’re still the largest economy, so we are not really a pariah. Everyone has to deal with us, which means dealing with Trump.

We’re the largest economy part because of the intricate web of trade and mutual defense that we spent decades building and maintaining. Now we’ve got a temperamental tyrant in the White House who sees trade as one-sided and defense as being only to our benefit. It doesn’t take long for countries like Russia and China, who have far larger populations and thus bigger consumer bases, to muscle into what used to be our backyard and start spinning deals with countries looking to get out from what their own citizens see as one-sided deals.