Agree US is rapidly changing its stance toward the rest of the world but at the same time Trump is heavily leveraging upon the legacy of institutional and protocol dominance that the US has enjoyed for decades. He is blatantly breaching FTAs and other international law in a way few other countries would dare to and that few are prepared to challenge but rather most cower to, although China and the EU are pushing back. USA under Trump can do this because of its legacy dominance, and Trumps willingness to trash traditional/conventional expectations and assumptions. The reserve currency status of the USD is perhaps the most important of these legacy strategic assets and levers by which to control and dominate. IMO this is becauseTrump recognises the imminence of potentially losing several of these levers of empire- China is enabling trade payments for Russia and Iran- not just N.Korea. With the Saudis joining the mBridge protocol which enables trade payments via Chinas CBDC Yuan the threat is now urgent and well advanced. Trump is urgently seeking to buy time by using all the threats, bluff and shock tactics he can, and maybe he can buy some time...but it is a rearguard defensive action of a retreating empire seeking to preserve as much of its advantage as it can while the economic momentum is heavily in favour of the global trade leader- China. USA still have the legacy advantage in the complex of post WW2 institutions of global monetary and trade governance- the World Bank, WTO, IMF, BIS, SWIFT...but China now dominates global trade and logically should, must and is increasing its own institutional and protocol structures. Chinas development bank now finances much more global infrastructure and development than the World Bank. Chinas military capacity is advancing rapidly across many fronts while the US still leads in many areas that lead is reducing across most. Trade dominance goes hand in hand with Empire - military and monetary power projection. It has since Roman times- since Jesus reportedly answered- 'whose image is this?' Look at the alignment of monetary systems and military from Roman times to today. The Five Eyes Network and the Western Banking Network. They are the tertiary structures of empire. China is reverse engineering them both and while Bitcoin does theoretically present a neutral and equitable alternative- its use as a MoE is obstructed heavily if subtly and slyly in the 'liberal' west and quite overtly and explicitly in the East. Use of Bitcoin as a speculative commodity/SoV is of little threat to the nation state (KYCed and taxed it even brings some benefit) and the bankers monetary power, but use of Bitcoin for MoE, is.