I would recommend people take a look at Switzerland's example. The trade agreements are incredibly precise and protectionism was and is always a thing. Always. And also refer to Ha Joon Chang's Kicking Up the Ladder.

I agree global free market trade is and should be an ideal but it will always be an ideal as long as everybody is NOT on the same boat. In other words, as long as you don't have a libertarian paradises everywhere, global free trade doesn't work. Global free trade will only work if ALL countries are libertarian paradises. And we're absolutely incredibly far from that.

Eventually I will create more content about this. Because the examples are many and people don't know about them.

Sure, the polity that is most important to one will change it's name and it drastically depends on the person. The current nation state is not the most important polity for a lot of people because technology is competing with it.

But I'm not saying that I want that to happen or not. I personally certainly don't need or live as if I needed the nation state. I'm a voluntaryist at heart, I live as if there were no states. In essence I personally don't care about any of these nation states.

But that doesn't mean it's not important for millions of people, that there's no real politik for millions of people that know zero about this. For most people the nation state is and will be the most important polity in existence. We can't ignore this fact and that's mostly what I'm referring to.

And in that sense, the US is revolutionizing the nation state arena.