America is reeling from a failed war in Afghanistan, political polarisation and increasing social division. Could the superpower be in decline?

00:00 - America’s rising instability
00:45 - Is America in decline?
03:21 - America’s foreign policy failures
05:23 - Is this the end of American intervention?
07:02 - America’s domestic decline: what can be done?
09:09 - Will the infrastructure bill help?
10:40 - Is declinism inevitable?

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