Today, the United States is hobbled by a turgid economy, seriously divided domestic politics, an unstable society, and a military that has not really won a war since the Gulf War in 1991 (though some would quibble with this, since the United States has not technically fought in a declared war since 1945).
After decades of globalization, wherein the purveyors of American global hegemony paradoxically demanded the gutting of America’s economy and the spreading of America’s once-exclusive wealth and capabilities to the rest of the world, other nations are today rising to power. Many have argued we have entered a multipolar world order. And it is true that many powers have started rising from behind the shadow of the waning American collossus, Läs artikel