“This is where we are today. The US is declining as a global superpower on all fronts, challenged militarily by rival powers and makeshift guerilla insurgencies alike, and eating its own tail economically as the Frankenstein it created tears at the seams.

"The real question is not whether US hegemony is waning," Emmanuel Wallerstein writes in his 2003 The Decline of American Power, "but whether the United States can devise a way to descend gradually, with minimum damage to the world, and to itself.””

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