Or . . . instead of the stick, they might use the carrot (U.S. taxpayer dollars), in which case WE are the ones acquiescing to the non-compliant nations’ blackmail and extortion.
They could try, but the world is also turning away from the dollar. Bad things are in the wind. The dollar bribes won’t work anymore because they know we are broke. The threats of attack and color revolution don’t work anymore after the color revolutions in Kazakhstan and Belarus in 2022 were both repelled and we failed to overthrow Assad in Syria.
Sanctions? Hell, it seems like half the planet is under sanctions anymore.
Eventually it makes sense to throw in with everyone else under sanctions and make a go of it.
DC is hollow and the world sees it. They laugh at Biden, see the perversion and massive corruption, and judge America is done.