>>22648926he reduces everything to numbers (money) which misses the point of being a world hegemony entirely.
if you only look at trade deficits and military expenses, you miss the point that the US still gets first dibs on the brightest and most gifted people on the planet, if you want to peak in your field of work, no matter what it is, you come to america.
this is something that you cant tally with money, its an amount of soft power and influence in the world that cant be measured in aircraft carriers.
by disrupting these flows of innovation and intellect, or even just threatening it, he does more harm than good. if the US keeps up being unreliable and erratic, people will just move somewhere else in the next generation
