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> at a competitive disadvantage, and cooler heads will prevail

I don't think this a safe assumption at all, given the the last few years of government policy where the "cooler heads" very much failed to stop such things, if they weren't silenced or fired outright for telling the Emperor that his clothes weren't there.

In particular, consider the tariff-taxes [0] against on US importers, and the ensuing breakdown between America and its oldest allies and trading-partners. Also relevant would be the President's recent pet-project war [1], which has shut down a major part of international shipping.

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[0] Unilaterally imposed by fiat, with idiotic "failed economics 101" math for the rates... and the majority in Congress still actively tried to keep it going, until the Supreme Court ruled it illegal.

[1] Simultaneously a war and not a war, both already-won and ongoing, depending on which lies need to be told today to harvest applause and grab cash. Just this week the White House submitted documents to Congress claiming what's going on is a completely separate and new, second war with Iran...

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