America’s position as the world’s sole superpower was never earned — it was inherited from the collapse of its rivals. Now the vacancy is being filled. In this talk, Shahid Bolsen walks through the structural evidence of America’s demotion from global superpower to regional hegemon: the GDP numbers, the dollar’s decline, the military track record, the diplomatic losses. Then he goes deeper — into the two factions of private-sector power that have captured the American state and are actively managing its controlled decline for their own purposes. The multipolar transition is real. But here’s what most people celebrating it are missing: the danger isn’t that it fails. The danger is that it succeeds — on terms already set by the same anational capital that built the previous order.
