American Attempts to Preserve Hegemony Will Only Make the Transition to a New World Order Harder for Washington

... Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, who not so long ago was perceived in Washington solely as an international criminal. As for the US-China stand-off, it is not clear what exactly Washington has prepared to counter Beijing’s growing economic activity in, say,... ... international leadership lie within the US itself. Therefore, the current political priorities manifested during the midterm elections (inflation, crime, migration, etc.) speak more to the common sense and pragmatism of Americans than to an increasingly isolationist sentiment in society. The fundamental problem in the US is not even some specific manifestation of current economic and social malaise, but ...