The U.S. is shifting in its approach towards the Anglophone countries and Europe. Previously it allowed them to maintain the idea that they were equal partners despite the obvious power imbalance. Now it is depriving them that indulgence and openly addressing them as satrapies. Can’t tell if this is a sign of U.S. decline or further ascendance.

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The impression that it can be anything but decline is an index of the severity of the decline.