'I didn’t attack the messenger' You do not seem to read what you write.

'I literally was in meetings all day in guess where… Congress.' ie mired in US exceptionalist hype, not in the real world where most people observing Trumps tragic bullying charade live and view it from.

You have not refuted any of the points I have made, you are simply drunk on US exceptionalism and blind to the alternative viewpoints and demonstrably incapable of responding to them with a credible reasoned retort.

Trump is a blustering bully and has been forced to retreat from his global attack on free trade and the rule of law because USTs were about to get dumped and US insolvency would have followed. Trump is fighting a rearguard effort to salvage US wealth power and hegemony- it looks like hes losing.

US has lost the trade war and loss of financial-tertiary level-institutional hegemony will logically follow- the only question is when.