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A New American Century

Why the 21st Century Will Be Another American Century Part 1

Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley
3 min read4 days ago
Map of US Global Military Presence
Map of US Global Military Presence

According to a Pew Research Centre survey conducted in 2022, there has been and continues to be a growing trend among Americans (47% vs. 19%). Roughly a third of U.S. adults (32%) say their nation’s influence on the global stage has stayed about the same.

There is a growing trend and belief that the decline of American power is a cultural and economic issue internal to the United States and other Western powers due to deindustrialisation.

The American system of world power is not dying.

The American government either deliberately or unintentionally bought its alliance at the end of World War II (1945) to win the Cold War (1945 to 1989) by sacrificing the working classes inside the United States and in developed Nations in the Global North.

The biggest reason for losing faith in the Western world is that the nature of work is changing from an industrial and brawn economy to an intellectual, design and brainpower economy, leaving people behind.

Since the end of World War II, the world has become more prosperous, and more people have been brought out of extreme poverty.

This brings the discussion of China and Russia being active opponents of the economic…

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Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley
Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley

Written by Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley

I have been writing from 2014 to the present day; my writing is focused on history, politics, culture, geopolitics and other related topics.

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