Donald Trump takes his trade war to the world’s tiniest nations

For a country he recently said “no one has ever heard of”, President Donald Trump singled out Lesotho in southern Africa for some pretty rough treatment in his long list of “reciprocal” tariffs.

The “mountain kingdom” of 2.3mn people, which is entirely surrounded by South Africa, was one of several countries, some among the poorest in the world, to be selected for the most punitive US tariffs.

Others included Nauru, the world’s third-smallest country, and Myanmar, which is coping…