[feelgoodfox]

Not necessary. For one thing, countries dependent on US business behave themselves. This helps to keep them nuclearly sane.

[oceanview]

sure, like China - stealing US nuclear secrets and helping North Korea get nukes - and using NK as a nuclear proxy to check US power. They are really behaving themselves alright.

[radicalamericannationalist]

The notion that trading partners don;t fight is foolish. France was Germany's largest trading partner when Hitler decided to invade.