Given that banana countries were a thing, I think it wouldn't be completely out of character for the US to enforce it's (it's own companies) interests. But I don't think it will be war, but rather soft-power.
To be fair to them, some Linux defaults are atrocious IMHO.
For example mq-deadline ALWAYS performs badly in desktop tasks. Launching a Steam download alone is enough to kill a Linux machine using that scheduler. Therefore I feel like we need this.
Unfortunately it tends to do so randomly (was using foot for like 3 or so years by now). And in the end you'll only ever end up saving single digits of RAM. I suggest using server mode *only* on a RAM constrained device like a SBC or a embedded device (Tablet running Linux).
Hope you continue the good work and best of luck.