The Global Trade Game: Jokers Are Wild

There may be no winners of the game of Global Domination (tm), and that is likely the best outcome.

Okay, players: jokers are wild, but with a twist: the entire deck is jokers. Since everyone at the table will have five Aces, nobody wins.

Welcome to the Trade War Poker Table: nobody wins, as everyone has the same hand of jokers.

This is not to say that exploitive, mercantilist "free trade" (no such thing has ever existed) is desirable, much less possibl…