> let your homegrown champions stay strong and keep getting stronger. ...Until they start getting banned abroad because your government openly tries to manipul

> let your homegrown champions stay strong and keep getting stronger. ...Until they start getting banned abroad because your government openly tries to manipulate election in ally countries. And once that happens, you're perpetually weaker and your reputation is done for a century. People arguing for this kind of hard power are just too weak-minded to understand the extent and strength of US' historical soft power. > markets don't work the way libertarians think. Well, if you keep pushing down that line, markets won't work at all, and welcome back to 19th century's gunboat policy, except people have nukes now.