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Warning. This too contains a crapload of bracketed notes. 😜

There is no scenario left now where all our trading partners don't need to treat the USA as a hostile entity, not a 'partner'. And treat our goods as suspect due to the rapid dismantling of regulations and oversight
[we will make goods as suspect as some of China's {remember the baby formula?} except _ours won't be cheap_ so there won't even be economic incentive to buy it once quality is equally suspect].

The EC is even prepared to retaliate against the latest threat from the Trump regime, and for good reason. The EC. This is like saying your left hand is preparing to retaliate against your right.

And then there's China who has said basically 'Fine, we'll find other sources, good luck with your little tantrum' and turned to Australia for more of its beef
[goodbye revenue, Red States, particularly Nebraska who is already hurting financially, of and the feds want you to shoulder some new costs they'll no longer provide, kthxbye]
and expanding its already-large trading with Brasil [perhaps you heard about the new megaport they built in Peru to make shipping to/from S. America 2 weeks faster and skip the Panama Canal].

"Tariff wars and trade wars have no winners" - Xi Jinping

But it has losers, And we will be the losers.

The US is headed towards a new isolationism that will hurt us all. The new regime believes we'll thrive because they suffer the delusion that "American exceptionalism" and "manifest destiny" are universally held beliefs. They are not. And that the world can't get along without us. They can. And they will if we push them to. The entirety of the rest of the world trades with each other
[OK, Russia is an exception, on the surface. But Russia trades with China and middle-East nations, so Russia trades with the world, just through a middleman.]

Hey, but the Dominionists will have their Project 2025 done and dusted, so at least we'll also be living in a religio-fascist militaristic hellscape as we wither economically. [/s] Spoiler: Crypto won't save us. Google and OpenAI and Microsift won't save us [countries are already looking for alternartives, if you haven't heard]. Regime change _might_ save us.