Originally Posted by
Khendraja'aro
And the delusions of grandeur show their face again. Listen, Rand, absolutely no one is waiting with bated breath for the UK. Not a single country. You are not offering anything special any other country couldn't offer as well.
Everyone else has their ducks in a row. And everyone else also knows that you'll need new trade agreements to at least partially make up for the massive losses you will take.
That puts you in a very disadvantaged position with everyone - because if they don't reach a new agreement with you, what will they have lost? Nothing. Which means that no one will be willing to agree to something where they don't get off better than before.
Or to put it more mathematically: Everyone starts at zero. And they are not agreeing if they don't end up with a positive number.
Meanwhile, you start at -100 (minus one hundred).
And your analogies are a massive fail as well: It's economics, stupid. If you don't uphold contracts you signed, how willing do you think other countries will be to enter contracts with you when you show that you're unwilling to uphold them as soon as they become inconvenient?