Defenders of the “American” empire imagine its dominance to be immutable. Objectivity is therefore often lost in the maze of slow change. Yet the transformation is happening before our very eyes: we are moving from a unipolar world ruled by the greenback to a fragmented multipolar world.

 

Thus, the last stand we are witnessing, although supported by unprecedented technological acceleration, seems only to be delaying the inevitable. Between internal tensions, record debt, and the rise of the Global South, long-term forces are pushing for a redistribution of power. History is repeating itself: after the last stand usually comes the eclipse, giving way to a new world order where one or more future powers will emerge through new and probably unprecedented alliances.