If you say so. I think the fact that the US has been the most powerful country for the last 75 years or so has been pretty undisputed, but different realities for different folks i guess
your statement is not incompatible with mine. the U.S. can both still be on top and declining at the same time. They are not mutually exclusive
Give Mr. Hegseth (or is it rather, Rev. Hegseth now?) a couple more years, and I think conventional U.S. military dominance will very much be in dispute. He is burning through competent senior leadership at a prodigious rate.