US Hegemony Decline
The cluster discusses the erosion of the United States' status as the dominant global superpower, drawing historical parallels to the British Empire and highlighting the rise of powers like China toward a multipolar world order.
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"Winners" is the wrong word here. The US has a massive amount of clout and can project power globally (unlike most countries).
The US doesn't rule the world (yet).
I didn't mean the point is the imports. The fact is that US is loosing his share of world GDP for decades, and new powers like China are rising. It is just like the decline of British empire at the late 19th and early 20th century and rise of new powers like US, Germany, Japan. We are witnessing the same phenomenon that Lenin called unequal development of capitalism in the imperialist stage. We would also see the same tensions and wars that we saw in the first half of 20th century.
The said "world" would have really hard time doing anything without USA
We never left such world, it's just that the USA was the only great power for a few decades.
It's unavoidable that USA loses its hegemony. It might be market, military or natural forces, but the balance of power always changes. China's star is rising for now, tomorrow it will be someone else's. Moral merit has nothing to do with this.
The world won't really be any better off because there are other empires vying for the top spot, and they will simply replace US if the latter drops the ball.
Weakening the US as a world power seems OK until you look at who is stepping up to take its place.
Actually it looks like the US is already on the way of demotion from a global superpower to a regional power. There is no single country which comes as a replacement, but a multipolar world order instead. Many countries, mostly asian are emerging.
As a sovereign nation rises in power you'll notice how it slowly starts losing favor from USA