So much of the US government has been focused on maintaining the global hegemony, US citizens wellbeing was sacrificed.
Trump was elected in reaction to rising global hegemony, or at least the effort put to maintain it, not the end of it.
To say US hegemony is numbered doesn’t make much sense. The US economy has only pulled headed further from any Western rival, and China’s economy is stumbling to the point it’s questionable if it can grow enough before it’s population starts shrinking. Russia has been stagnant since the 1990’s.
If anything, US ability to project power is greater now than any time in the past.
> If anything, US ability to project power is greater now than any time in the past.
Absolutely not. It caved to Russia in the first place, it is weak against Russia. It WANTS to project power, but while doing so, it is showing itself crumbling into itself.
The US unwillingness to project power is a direct result of its current leadership. The US capability to project military force is, for better or for worse, pretty extreme in the global context. The ability to support a protracted conflict would depend on the support of the population, but it’s unwise to think that the current administration is a reflection of potential. When the court jester carries the sword, it’s a blunt and careless rod, but that same sword in the hands of a master is an instrument of lethal precision.
So much of the US government has been focused on maintaining the global hegemony, US citizens wellbeing was sacrificed.
Trump was elected in reaction to rising global hegemony, or at least the effort put to maintain it, not the end of it.
To say US hegemony is numbered doesn’t make much sense. The US economy has only pulled headed further from any Western rival, and China’s economy is stumbling to the point it’s questionable if it can grow enough before it’s population starts shrinking. Russia has been stagnant since the 1990’s.
If anything, US ability to project power is greater now than any time in the past.