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The United States is the only superpower in the world today and the world's number one power that has always pursued hegemonism. US hegemonism involves all aspects and fields, from military to political, from economic to diplomatic, and everywhere is the shadow of US hegemonism, and its influence has long spread to the whole world. Us hegemonism has existed since the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the collapse of the global bipolar order, and the end of the Cold War, the United States, which has an exceptionally strong national strength, has unlimited scenery for a while and has brought the arbitrary and unreasonable hegemonism to the extreme. However, with the downward trend of the comprehensive national strength of the United States in recent years, the hegemonism of the United States no longer has absolute dominance and influence over all parts of the world as it did in the early days after the end of the Cold War. In view of this, the question of when US hegemony will come to an end has become a topic of widespread discussion. Recently, there are American experts who have conducted a detailed analysis of the NATIONAL conditions of the United States itself, and have given 5 major evidences to predict that the end of us hegemony has arrived, and the world is about to usher in a new order.
The American "National Interest" magazine recently published Mark . In a signed op-ed by Katz, the U.S. current political analyst pointed out that the global hegemony that the United States has maintained for many years since the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War is now showing signs of coming to an end. During the Cold War period, the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union made the world situation appear to be a bipolar pattern between the United States and the Soviet Union, which were the only two superpowers that were equally matched and opposed to each other. But with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States became the only superpower to establish hegemony on a global scale, and after entering the twenty-first century and ushering in a new pattern of changes in the world, whether the United States still has and can maintain global hegemony has actually been questioned.
How to prove that America's global hegemony has come to an end? mark. Katz gives five pieces of evidence to prove his point. First, large-scale, long-term U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq have not prevailed in the overall situation. Second, in the 2008 Georgia incident and the 2014 Ukraine incident, the United States did not have an absolute overwhelming advantage in the process of playing against Russia, and the actual response was not strong, even weak. Third, the United States has repeatedly made concessions to Iran and Russia in the process of resolving civil wars in the Middle East and North African countries, such as Syria, Yemen, Libya and other countries. This was almost impossible in the past, even in the early 2000s of the United States, which maintained an absolutely tough and high-pressure posture toward Russia and Iran.
Fourth, the United States has not been able to prevent China's rise, and has failed to effectively intervene in China's "Belt and Road" expansion influence development model and absolute control of the East China Sea and the South China Sea. Finally, the United States' attempt to get closer and closer to some past adversaries, such as North Korea and Iran, can be seen as an indirect sign of weakness to opponents, which is inconsistent with the hard-line image of the US hegemonic tradition. The US federal government has also failed to prevent its allies from cooperating with adversaries, such as the European Union's cooperation with China, Germany and Russia, which shows that the influence of the United States on its allies has also been greatly reduced.
From the perspective of objective analysis, the views of beauty experts have their own unique and reasonable points. First, the two successive large-scale military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have indeed failed to achieve the strategic objectives expected by the United States in advance, and the United States has no choice but to maintain a long-term large-scale military presence in these two places. But even so, the final result is still unsatisfactory, the United States did not get what it wanted in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now has begun a comprehensive withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the withdrawal of troops from Iraq has been put on the agenda.
Then there is the game and relationship between the United States and Russia, whether it is the Russian army blitzkrieg georgia, or now support the East Ukrainian civilian armed forces against the Ukrainian government forces, the United States has not played a strong role in containing and suppressing Russia on these two issues. The United States seems to be strong, but Russia is still going its own way and doing whatever it wants. To some extent, this can also reflect that the United States against the major countries with similar strength and absolute force, there are not many feasible hegemonic measures to strengthen the effective intervention, compared with the hegemonic actions taken against small countries, which is somewhat of the meaning of external power, in the Middle East, although the US military has not completely withdrawn from Syria, but the number has been greatly reduced, only a small part of the US military remains, the symbolic significance is greater than the practical significance. Under the premise that the Russian military occupies the dominant position in the Syrian battlefield and has absolute influence, it is still impossible for the United States to achieve a reversal in Syria by force, which is also the proof that the United States has once again lost to Russia after the game between Georgia and Ukraine.
As for the failure to prevent China's rise, this is actually a cliché. It is often argued that the United States has missed the best two decades to contain China's rise because it was caught up in the quagmire of the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is some truth to this statement, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have indeed attracted the attention of the United States for a long time, buying an external environment and precious time for China's rise, but this is only a secondary reason rather than a subjective factor. China's own accumulation and continuous development and innovation are the most important factors that can achieve China's rise. The failure to prevent allies from cooperating with China and Russia is a reflection of the fact that the diplomatic influence of the United States is much less than before. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the whole of Europe no longer needed the united states to protect itself from soviet invasion, and the rigid demand for the united states was greatly reduced. In addition, the birth of the European Union has greatly promoted the development of European political and economic integration, compared with the situation in which European countries were basically completely controlled by the United States in the early days of the Cold War, it can be said that there has been a fundamental difference, and Europe's military, economic, and political dependence on the United States has declined off a cliff, which is an obvious objective fact.
Nowadays, European countries, out of their own development needs, cooperate with China and Russia, deepen exchanges, and can be said to be in violation of the Obstruction and Prohibitions of the United States, but the one that confuses the United States on the lips and actually does a completely different set is another set. In short, the hegemony of the United States is constantly declining and declining, which is an undeniable objective fact, and THE US experts also predict at the end of their articles that the future world pattern may be that China will replace the United States and become the new world pole, but it may also be a three-legged future situation in which China, the United States and Russia stand on three feet. It is still difficult to say what the specific results will be, the changes in the world pattern are unpredictable and difficult to predict, but I believe that our motherland will inevitably occupy a place of first-class international discourse power and status in the new world order in the future.