Concerning USA's future as the top world power: It has been upheld by military power/intervention and the $ being the reserve world currency. BRIC is now a rivalry currency.(Brazil, Russia, India, China, etc.) Also, military stuff costs $'s, and the development of other factions and industries, and is more dangerous and alienating in a multi-power climate. The USA could maybe do just as well putting on a smiley face and dropping the military stuff. Lead the world in other economic boons of the near future. Make friends in the context of building on points in common when self-determination is a given. Our foreign policy has historically been run in the spirit, sometimes in the letter of a bunch of black-hat antics and black-hat diplomacy agreements which would sell out the majority population of countries in favor of feathering the nests of elite corps.
Concerning USA's future as the top world power: It has been upheld by military power/intervention and the $ being the reserve world currency. BRIC is now a rivalry currency.(Brazil, Russia, India, China, etc.) Also, military stuff costs $'s, and the development of other factions and industries, and is more dangerous and alienating in a multi-power climate. The USA could maybe do just as well putting on a smiley face and dropping the military stuff. Lead the world in other economic boons of the near future. Make friends in the context of building on points in common when self-determination is a given. Our foreign policy has historically been run in the spirit, sometimes in the letter of a bunch of black-hat antics and black-hat diplomacy agreements which would sell out the majority population of countries in favor of feathering the nests of elite corps.