Are we witnessing the fall and/or dismantle of the USA as a superpower?

I am nothing more than a global citizen and this is my observation.

Watching the chaos in the White House during the Covid19 pandemic of 2020 , and not being a USA citizen I don’t have a right to pass comment on what is happening on their political landscape , however when the USA withdrew from the Paris climate accord, when the USA sought to purchase Greenland , most probably for mining of fossil fuels, when the USA has 80 odd military bases globally in other countries, when the USA used military action to fight meaningless wars,  then the concern is not one of what is happening in the USA, but what the USA is doing that affects the rest of the world at large.

Let me say from the get-go that I have been to the USA a few times and I have found overall, the Americans I met to be great and warm people.

I hasten to add that I certainly do not form my opinions solely by what I see in the media as I am of the opinion that all media is biased to a lesser or greater degree.  However what I see in the numerous press conferences and the twitter rants of the current President , leave me with very little hope for the USA being able to remain the UNITED States of America.  The sentiment between Republicans and Democrats has become so toxic, fed by the current leadership, that I do believe that some states will break away from the current USA to have more autonomy in determining their own future. 

Very similar to the USSR which dismantled in 1991. 

Whether the dismantle of the USA is being orchestrated by foreign interference, only time will tell.  

I am of the opinion that regardless who the next president is going to be, the current president has sown such discord that the next president will require at least two terms of office to be able to recover from the current mess. Not only financially, but in restoring credibility on the global stage as well.

I don’t believe  Joe Biden is the right person to do this.  

As an outsider looking in , it is like being a kid watching your parents in a troubled marriage and the relationship going into a death spiral. How do you come back from that?

 “Words said in anger is like gathering feathers in a storm”

So I had a quick look at what caused the collapse of the Roman Empire and as per www.History.com and these were for the following reasons.

1.       Invasions by Barbarian tribes

2.       Economic troubles and overreliance on slave labor

3.       The rise of the Eastern Empire

4.       Overexpansion and military overspending

5.       Government corruption and political instability

6.       The arrival of the Huns and the migration of the Barbarian tribes

7.       Christianity and the loss of traditional values

8.       Weakening of the Roman legions

Re point 2, In today's world over-reliance of slave labor could be the outsourcing of manufacturing to countries where cheap labor exists like China, etc .

Re point 3, this has resulted in the rise of the Eastern Empire

Re point 4, USA military budget is as at 2020 approx $700 Billion which is more than most countries combined.  I am totally perplexed that the USA, with that kind of budget, would be so ill prepared for a biological threat like Covid19  , whether hostile or accidental. Budget allocation from the military budget should have been allocated for this very purpose.

Re point 5 , I think the current political landscape speaks for itself.

Re point 7, certainly the loss of traditional values is a global phenomenon and not uniquely an American problem.

So many of the problems of the Roman Empire are symptomatic in the current USA.

 

The collapse of the USSR on the other hand was swift and mostly peaceful, largely as a result of glasnost and perestroika through Gorbachev from 1989 through to his resignation in 1991. He was replaced by non other than the head of the KGB who then also became, and still current, head of Parliament.

The relationship between the leader of the USA and Russia is , as per President Trump a good one. Whether there is a symbiotic relationship between the two leaders is unknown at this stage.

As per  www.history.com

“Back in Moscow, Gorbachev’s star was falling while another politician was rising: Boris Yelstin, the man who had stood atop that tank before parliament, now had control of both parliament and the KGB. Gorbachev’s resignation as president was inevitable, and on Christmas Day, 1991, he gave up his office, saying, “We’re now living in a new world. An end has been put to the Cold War and to the arms race, as well as to the mad militarization of the country, which has crippled our economy, public attitudes and morals.” The mighty Soviet Union had fallen. “

 So , is the USA slowly devouring itself through divisiveness , to be dissolved in the not to distant future? time will tell.