The US is a massive trading partner for most countries and has a strong economy backed by the American consumer. Not to mention defence and liquidity funding relationships (backed by world reserve currency). No leader is willing to cut themselves off from that.

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No one leader, maybe. But if they all get together they can and will. Remember: they have literally all the other countries in the world to trade with. If they all decide to stop trading with the US to teach us a lesson we'd be screwed and cave in real fast. American arrogance and overconfidence can cost us dearly.

Agree it's not impossible, just quite unlikely 👍

We'll see how it goes. We definitely live in iteresting times.