Is the Sun Slowly Setting on U.S. Power?

[Metaphorical]

19. US Hegemony is absolutely decreasing

Many factors, not least of which being the shift away from oil. We "inherited" England's empire in the 1950s after WWII, and having dual coasts on the Atlantic and Pacific both help, but the reality is that the US military is becoming redundant in an era of drone warfare (sadly, warfare becomes more affordable with technology, not less), and without that military, US hegemony is also decreasing. We've also pissed away a lot of power by outsourcing our manufacturing, and while robotics may help equalize that somewhat, we're definitely in the waning days of Empire. it doesn't mean the end of the country, but it does mean that we're likely to lose a lot of the poisonous exceptionalism that has caused so many problems for the last fifty to sixty years.