End Of The World As We Knew It (A Commentary)

America Next: End Of The World As We Knew It -- Steve Clemons, The Atlantic

In the case of the United States - which has been indisputably the reigning global superpower for six decades - there are signs - ranging from the tumult in the Middle East to a humiliating war in Afghanistan to a downgrade of US sovereign debt - that America is at a key inflection point in its history and that the US network of global control (aka, "empire") is disintegrating.



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.... Power, like an equity in the stock markets, is ultimately a function of future expectations -- and today the reality is that America's stock has fallen dramatically and will only rise again with visionary statecraft revolutionary, new global deal-making that might restore the impression that America once again matters.

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