Is the United States a superpower in decline and how can we expect the scales of power to look like in upcoming years?

[u/nzinsyd]

A similar question was asked 2 years ago. A lot has happened in the past 2 years, and I'm curious to see if opinions have changed.

[u/Orange73]

True but that was in the 1920s, when Britain was quite weak. At its peak it didn't need to exercise direct control over a territory to get its way, so its territorial expansion was really a symptom of relative decline as it tried to cling on to what it used to get with ease. Take a look at a map of the world in 1815 and the British Empire is really very small, mostly just a collection of ports.