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These countries can establish as many new trade agreements as they want, but they aren’t going to replace the US market.
And to claim that the US has lost allies is ridiculous. Countries have done far worse and remained allies.
Let’s not overplay the impact here. Free trade is a relatively new thing. We’re just going back to the world the way it was a few decades ago.
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These countries can establish as many new trade agreements as they want, but they aren’t going to replace the US market.
And to claim that the US has lost allies is ridiculous. Countries have done far worse and remained allies.
Let’s not overplay the impact here. Free trade is a relatively new thing. We’re just going back to the world the way it was a few decades ago.