I dislike this analogy because a nation is not a person grocery shopping and anyway if a single grocery store was the only way to get food that would put me in a very lopsided relationship with them and the power dynamics in such a case are obviously bad for the person.
Nations have interests and there’s a real conversation to be had that a country should ensure it has strategic industries so its existence is never at the whims of another.
> a real conversation to be had that a country should ensure it has strategic industries
Then let that be the reason for tariffs rather than the bullshit argument of trade deficit = taking money.