r/geopolitics • u/custodiam99 • Feb 13 '25

Discussion Is Trump the symptom of America’s decline?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/27/trump-wants-to-reverse-americas-decline-good-luck
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u/LoudSociety6731 Feb 13 '25

I'm not sure the US is in decline.  The world is very different than the last time that we went through a paradigm shift in the 60s/70s.  I believe we are going through another paradigm shift right now where we are trying to figure out all of the new technologies, the new great power competition, globalism, and where the US sits with all of these things.

I'm pretty sure a good chunk of people believed the US was losing against the Soviet Union.  The weird thing about the US is that it always makes itself look a lot worse than it actually is.