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In terms of both economic and military strength it feels like Trump expected everyone to go “Oh no we need them, guess we’ll have to take a worse deal” but instead they were like “We need stability and can’t trust the US to keep its contracts for the next several years at least, so we’ll have to source elsewhere.”