The normal "hard SF" counter-strategy would be for America's rivals to take maximum advantage of our ill-advised policies.<p>Though doing that would require <i>competent</i> rivals. Which may be considerably more common in SF than in the real world.
> whole circus kicked off in late January<p>This whole circus kicked off in November, 2024.<p>Actually, arguably, it kicked off June 6, 2015.<p>Actually, scratch that… it kicked off June 14, 1946.<p>Nope, then again, 18 July, 1925.<p>Come to think of it, April 20th, 1889.<p>I tell a lie… part way through 1611?<p>Or, actually, probably around (with a <i>enormously</i> big “-ish”) 70AD, when people started taking the figurative “Father” references literally?