From a game theory PoV this is interesting. Remember Jan 2025? US back then was allied to Europe, Japan, Australia and a bunch of other places. And these place

From a game theory PoV this is interesting. Remember Jan 2025? US back then was allied to Europe, Japan, Australia and a bunch of other places. And these places, largely due to their own volition, outsourced their security to the US (it was a mutually agreed but stupid decision for non-USians). Now Trump, stupidly or not, is using this leverage to extort things: money, land, power, influence. The question is: should you start treating the US as a hostile power now, hope to stem this quickly, but potentially aggregate the hostile power more? Or should you go along, make some concessions, hope he goes away. It is a little like Sudetenland, except we're not 20 years after a world war co-started by the US. And US is still largely a democratic country. What would make the pro-Trump camp lose the next election? Etc etc