
The US produces enough to sustain itself without trade (albeit with a noticeable drop in quality of life) so I'd think it'd have to be war or infiltration but even still, our economy is war based so you might end up strengthening it. Lengthened sanctioning plus warfare might work well in the same way siege warfare did back in the day, but even still is a risky bet considering we have a ton of nukes.
Nothing. With one Executive Action, the President can set enemy nations back to the Stone Age: prohibit American companies from operating in adversary countries. VISA credit cards would stop working. So would ATMs, which use American technology. Boeings and Airbuses both use American components. So no planes. No Nvidia chips. No iPhone (or Android).
Sure we can nuke other countries, but isn’t the entire problem with that that other countries can nuke back? Plus clearly not every nation on earth requires the use of dollars and American ATMs etc. Iran clearly has resources and thus value with which to trade. The US is strong economically and militarily, but it isn’t god, it just has a strong system that gives it good leverage