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it would be extremely funny if one day china bought and took over entire US and Israeli silver and gold supply just so they had an excuse to exclude the US and Israel from WTO and IMF for not delivering the gold and silver thereby turning the US and Israel economy from major power to Argentina and Greece overnight.

I think we may just be using “boycott” in slightly different ways.
I’m not suggesting there was some coordinated global trade embargo against the US 20 years ago. But during the Iraq War there were very real consumer-level boycotts in parts of Europe and Canada, along with diplomatic and reputational strain. It didn’t collapse trade flows, but it did reflect a measurable drop in public sentiment toward US leadership at the time.
Similarly now, when I say countries are “boycotting Trump,” I don’t mean governments are severing trade ties. I mean there are targeted procurement shifts, consumer pullbacks, and rhetoric that’s directed more at the administration than at the US system as a whole. That distinction matters.
I agree that China’s rise wasn’t caused by a boycott. It was structural economics: industrial scale, WTO entry, supply chain clustering, cost advantage, etc. My broader point wasn’t that America was punished into decline, but that perception and political cycles can influence international alignment at the margins.
And I also agree the US doesn’t dominate consumer manufacturing anymore. But we remain dominant in capital markets, energy, aerospace, defense, and high-value services. That’s part of why I don’t think any current “boycott” rhetoric is existential.
My only larger point is that superpower status isn’t permanent in history. That doesn’t mean collapse is imminent. It just means shifts happen over decades, usually gradually, and often for structural reasons rather than emotional ones.