Tag: US: Decline is Ongoing

NOVANEWS Despite widely held views, American regression has long been taking place. By Shane Quinn Global Research The United States’ decline can be traced as far back as 1949, when the world’s dominant power unexpectedly suffered the “loss” of China. It was a monumental early blow to US strategic planners, who were carefully executing dreams of unchallenged global dominance. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had been “aiming at United States hegemony in the post-war world”, as the prominent British historian Geoffrey Warner outlined. Roosevelt was to die less than three weeks before Adolf Hitler shot himself in April 1945, yet such visions were carried forward with zeal. In 1948 the well regarded US diplomat George Kennan said,  “We have 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% ...