Ah. Exactly. Part of the genius of our Founders. These Sovereign States within a Union.
Funny how people forget that. The Founders lived it all.
They came from a Europe that had customs tolls every 10 miles as each Duchy exacted a price for anyone crossing their dirt. Even on the Rhine...
Extending that to the world is a pleasant conceit but it requires world government to make rules of the road: thus we get the WTO, GATT, UN, etc...and that’s what I meant by not being interested in including all the ranting Orks in making rules for us. And supposedly the Congress is supposed to negotiate the interstate rules. That’s why they exist in the first place.
The U.S. by itself is just fine. Right size, good resource base, smartest people on the planet settled it.
No need to roll the dice on that.