Apr 21, 2026 From the perspective of Europe, the current US Decline is larger than just the Trump Administration (video above).
Is there any sense to the Trump Administration's Geopolitical actions: Insulting Allies, threatening to Invade Greenland, capturing the president of Venezuela, joining Israel to wage war against Iran, threatening to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age, blockading the Straight of Hormuz, etc., etc.? Certainly there are lots of reasons at different levels of analysis,*** but what about the World-System level of analysis?
My argument is that the MAGA movement is a response to the Decline of American hegemonic power in the World-System.
In this post, I'm going to explore the US Decline hypothesis.
Notes
USL20 Measurement Model
WL20 Measurement Model
The first component, W1 = (Overall Growth) explains 87.4% of the variation in the indicators. Data were taken from the World Development Indicators and other sources (TEMP = Global Temperature, Total Footprint and Earths = Ecological Footprint, WorldGlobal = KOF Globalization Index, and LivingPlanet = Living Planet Index).