Oh come on. The US would never nuke someone over something like this. If they did then every nation on earth would have to consider the US the worst kind of hostile and react accordingly.

Oh, absolutely. I thought that went without saying. My point was only that the US is not powerless against other nations like a queen under attack by a knight that is also attacking the king. There is a way out other than US copyrights going away, though I'm not sure what it is.