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These guys are all utterly beholden to the United States. Even Europe tried this tough talk "elbows up" bullshit and to say they caved makes them sound braver than they actually were.

This is core to Trump's entire view of world economics. We don't need anybody and none of them would survive without us. That may be hyperbole but not by a big stretch.
Trump is leveraging the living shit out of that. No president before him was willing to demonstrate that level of temerity.