U.S. Hegemony Approaching Its End
U.S. Hegemony Approaching Its End
For years Iranian officials and also freedom-seekers in the world have claimed the U.S. is on the verge of decline and the U.S. hegemony is nearing its end but this claim has been mocked and some have accused Iranians and freedom-lovers in the world of living in delusion but events one after the other have bespoken of accuracy of this belief and prediction, and in recent proof to this prediction, a famous American political scientist has joined the Iranians to approve the U.S. hegemony is nearing its end.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – For years Iranian officials and also freedom-seekers in the world have claimed the U.S. is on the verge of decline and the U.S. hegemony is nearing its end but this claim has been mocked and some have accused Iranians and freedom-lovers in the world of living in delusion but events one after the other have bespoken of accuracy of this belief and prediction, and in recent proof to this prediction, a famous American political scientist has joined the Iranians to approve the U.S. hegemony is nearing its end.

In an article published recently on The Economist’s special 2022 outlook issue, called The World Ahead 2022, Francis Fukuyama, a senior fellow at Stanford University, predicted the end of the U.S. hegemony, with a deeply polarized society affecting the country’s foreign policy.

Fukuyama is known for his book The End of History and the Last Man (1992), which argues that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies and free-market capitalism of the West and its lifestyle may signal the end point of humanity’s sociocultural evolution and become the final form of human government.

In the article he said the United States suffered a humiliating defeat when it withdrew from Vietnam in 1975, but it regained its dominance within little more than a decade.

The peak period of American hegemony was recorded between the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the financial crisis of 2007-09, he added.

“The height of American hubris was the invasion of Iraq in 2003, when it hoped to remake not just Iraq and Afghanistan (invaded two years before), but the whole Middle East. America overestimated the effectiveness of military power to bring about deep political change, even as it underestimated the impact of its free-market economic model on global finance. The decade ended with its troops bogged down in two counterinsurgency wars, and a financial crisis that accentuated the inequalities American-led globalization had brought about,” Fukuyama explained.

He also noted that the biggest policy debacle of U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration in its first year has been its failure to plan adequately for the rapid collapse of Afghanistan.

The U.S. military led the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 in what it proclaimed was a war on terror meant to eradicate the Taliban.

“Mr Biden has suggested that withdrawal was necessary in order to focus on meeting the bigger challenges from Russia and China. I hope he is serious about this… In 2022, the administration needs to redeploy both resources and the attention of policymakers to deter geopolitical rivals and engage with allies,” Fukuyama said.

He further referred to polarization within the American society, saying it started over conventional policy issues like taxes and abortion, but has since metastasized into a bitter fight over cultural identity.

 

The COVID-19 pandemic, he added, served America’s divisions, with social distancing, mask-wearing and vaccinations being seen not as public-health measures but as political markers.

Meanwhile, Fukuyama stressed that the world has been reverting to a more normal state of multi-polarity, with China, Russia, India, Europe and other centers gaining power relative to America.

“Yet in truth, the end of the American era had come much earlier. The long-term sources of American weakness and decline are more domestic than international. The country will remain a great power for many years, but just how influential it will be depends on its ability to fix its internal problems, rather than its foreign policy,” he said.

“The United States is not likely to regain its earlier hegemonic status, nor should it aspire to. What it can hope for is to sustain, with like-minded countries, a world order friendly to democratic values. Whether it can do this will depend on recovering a sense of national identity and purpose at home.”

Actually what Fukuyama is saying is what the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and many Iranian officials and freedom-loving personalities in the world had said earlier but the Westerners and especially the Americans have not taken it seriously but it seems they are not feeling the heat and danger of collapse and the U.S. may follow the path that the former Soviet Union went in the 1990s and collapsed.

Signs of the U.S. hegemony and grandeur collapse emerge one after the other , and it makes the world and especially anti-arrogance nations satisfied of getting rid of another world arrogant country.

The U.S., which was once known as the symbol of democracy and used to boast about liberty and democracy, on Sunday was added to an annual list of “backsliding” democracies for the first time, a downward trend that began in 2019 and has deteriorated since, an intergovernmental body said in its new report.

The Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) uses 50 years of democratic indicators for its flagship report on the state of democracy in the world.

“This year we coded the United States as backsliding for the first time, but our data suggest that the backsliding episode began at least in 2019,” said the report, Global State of Democracy 2021, which was released on Monday.

The report pointed to the growing polarization in America, as well as voting laws that “disproportionately” affect minorities in a negative way.

Recent domestic  unrests and violence and international failures in many issues  are really driving the U.S. towards the collapse as this decline is taking momentum and being accelerated, and soon the world will see the full collapse of the U.S. hegemony as Fukuyama has confirmed Supreme Leader’s prediction of the U.S. collapse.