Like 2003, always manage to work those darn frenchies in there. Who also turned out to be right, BTW.
I'd say more likely that you're Field Marshall Foch, guarding the Maginot line. But Patriotically!
Our trade deficit is 2.5% of GDP, hardly worth upsetting the international order over, at least alone.
At present, the alliances that we'd need in order to force some meaningful changes are badly damaged. And the world is near entering recession.
We've had a triple pro-cyclical stimulus- a tax cut for the wealthy and corporations and two budget deals that raised spending- with D agreement. Still, growth* is slowing even if we're currently the cleanest dirty shirt.
Trump has made noises that The Unitary Executive has massive powers and can do pretty much as it wishes without congressional approval. I think we'll see something interesting there when recession begins to loom later in the year.
*which never hit the promised 4%- in fact one of those nasty "revisions" says it was only 2.5% last year.
