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Fifth, the US carries the world with it as it spirals into a “Great Release”, a breakdown of an 80-year long geopolitical order.
Since 1945 the US has led an internationalist liberal global order. But as elites have abused US global hegemony to strip wealth from the middle classes, it has caused a populist reactionary backlash.
This breakdown of the US as a unipolar superpower impacts almost every aspect of life on Earth, and we move now through a decades-long period of serious disruption that is, at a systems-level, trying to repair the US’s “strategic obesity” (i.e., its inability to respond to a changing world in any functional way).
Fifth, the US carries the world with it as it spirals into a “Great Release”, a breakdown of an 80-year long geopolitical order.
Since 1945 the US has led an internationalist liberal global order. But as elites have abused US global hegemony to strip wealth from the middle classes, it has caused a populist reactionary backlash.
This breakdown of the US as a unipolar superpower impacts almost every aspect of life on Earth, and we move now through a decades-long period of serious disruption that is, at a systems-level, trying to repair the US’s “strategic obesity” (i.e., its inability to respond to a changing world in any functional way).
