@dec_hl I don't know how that would be executed in practice. It's not as trivial as you make it sound tbh.
Smartphones, within limits, I can imagine how execute that. I get that part (at least in some level).
Being Dr. Evil is not as trivial at the scale you are projecting it. It would be an accomplishment in my books.
I was not amazed e.g. how tariffs were executed. Why put tariffs in parallel when Trump could have scattered them within a timeline? That would have kept market in speculative paralysis state.
Now the market will reform and restructure more and more outside the borders of US. In the current time quantum it is worst possible situation outside US, and longer it takes, it will be worse for US.
Not played well, so based on that, I don't believe this fully.