Loading ...Sovereignty means many things, but the first duty of a sovereign nation is to be able to defend that sovereignty. Which means that it has to be able to manufacture arms. Including nuclear weapons, especially if your neighbours and/or arch enemies have them. So no, Trump doesn’t want every nation to be successful, sovereign and prosper. Except by his definition, and on his terms. Which he made absolutely clear with tariffs.
That was also clear from his comment a few days ago. “America has plenty of oil, we don’t need the strait of Hormuz, it’s up to other countries to re-open it.” In other words, I stuffed your economies, your productive capacity, created heaps of inflation, raised interest rates: you’re welcome.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Iran, uranium is being fed into the centrifuges.