On responding to Trump’s tariffs.

I wonder if every other country in the world is asking these questions:
- Do we really need to buy goods and services from the US?
- Can we buy these items elsewhere?
- Can we make these items ourselves?
- What are the minimum US supplied goods that we need for now?
- How can we shift our exports currently going to the US to other countries?
- Do we really need the US as an ally?
- Do we want the US military on our soil?
- Can we form alliances against the US?
- Do we want to be dependent on the dollar for international trade?
- Do we want the US to retain the control it has over the international financial trading system?

I doubt that it’s a stretch to suggest that these and other questions are being asked world-wide.

If I were a US corporation I would be terrified that in a few years countries will find answers to these questions that won’t end well for the US economy and security.

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