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The declining US remains an undisputed military might
SHANE QUINN charts the political decline of the US since WWII and its continued squandering of astronomic sums on wars it cannot win
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The United States decline can be traced as far back as 1949, when the world’s dominant power unexpectedly suffered the “loss” of China.
It was a monumental early blow to US strategic planners, who were carefully executing dreams of unchallenged global dominance.
President Franklin D Roosevelt had been “aiming at US hegemony in the post-war world,” as the prominent British historian Geoffrey Warner outlined. Roosevelt was to die less than three weeks before Adolf Hitler shot himself in April 1945, yet such visions were carried forward with zeal.
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