I said "openly". Canada, for example, will very slowly, very quietly cut trade with the US, probably at the same pace as they lock down the border. We'll lean on trade with the EU and the far east that isn't china (oh hey! Canada just recently started massive trade negotiations with those areas... funny that.) and hope the burgeoning hydrogen trade sector will compensate for the loss of US business... enough to prevent our economy from outright collapsing. There will be... shrinkage...
The world is largely also making such other preparations. Not just cause the US is leaving nazi boot prints in the snow, but because the pandemic showed what happens when you overly depend on a single economic venue. It would have happened anyway, the pandemic made sure of that; your crusty, smelly, spray tanned, wish bought hitler knock off is just ensuring that it continues as opposed to pushing back towards the old status quo.
Nato will suffer horribly, US allies and trading partners will disappear. Because we've read the history books, and once you're done locking up the immigrants and the queers in concentration camps we know the next step is war. And none of us want to be on the wrong side of history in whatever world comes next.
But most of that won't happen: cause you're all going to get your asses out there and VOTE democrat, right?
