Trump’s latest economic offensive targets U.S. allies in Europe, Korea, and Japan with tariff hikes, investment shakedowns, and protection-money demands. Germany’s machinery exports face an “existential crisis,” Hyundai’s U.S. plant saw mass deportations, and Japan was forced into a $550 billion payout under threat of commercial chaos. As SCO and BRICS expand alternatives, America’s coercion of its own allies risks sparking nationalist backlash, de-dollarization, and a realignment...
