Let go of the obsession with fearing the U.S.: America is no longer about power struggles and losses, but about fatally self-destructing at its roots

A lot of people look at international affairs, at the U.S.’s series of geopolitical moves, at Sullivan’s strategies, at America’s pressure on Iran, at the White House’s endless foreign actions, and they always tend to overestimate America’s surface-level power. They always think U.S. hegemony is still rock-solid and can freely exploit the world.

But most people haven’t seen through the most fundamental and harsh truth of our times: the era of U.S. unipolar hegemony is completely over.

For many years in the past, we could still summarize America’s external provocations, conflict maneuvers, and crisis-shifting strategies as a short-sighted game of ‘hurting others seven points, harming ourselves three.’ Back then, its system still had resilience, its credibility still had some margin, and the inertia of its hegemony was enough to sustain external meddling. Its foreign exploitation could still cover up internal problems, making it a typical case of harming others for self-gain and short-sighted profiteering.

But looking at it now, this logic no longer applies at all.

In today’s America, all the geopolitical adventures, all the stirring of situations, all the external gains, all the spillover crises, are no longer minor losses, no longer just local backlashes—they’re continuous, layered, and cumulative systemic fatal crises.

It’s long since not simply a matter of losing out in a game or making a tactical mistake, but a real destruction of its own foundation.

The structural problems inside the U.S. have long been too entrenched to fix: deindustrialization can’t be reversed, the debt bubble is endlessly expanding, society is deeply divided, the two-party governance system has completely failed, and systemic flaws are fully exposed. Facing its deeply rooted internal crises, it has never been willing to reflect inwardly or self-correct, and will just, as always, choose to blame others, shift responsibility outward, and reap gains externally.

Every bit of geopolitical stirring is just draining the last of the US dollar’s credit;

Every extreme pressure move is eating up the last bit of global influence;

Every external grab is pushing the whole world to speed up de-dollarization and de-hegemonization.

What they call meticulous schemes and strategic layouts may seem like careful planning and cunning moves, but in reality, each step is pushing themselves deeper into a dead end.

The old zero-sum game tactics just don’t work anymore.

The world order has completely flipped, with global multipolar trends unstoppable and irreversible. Countries around the world are no longer willing to bow to unilateral dominance or accept the old order of being exploited, squeezed, or held hostage.

But America’s elite and hawkish politicians still live in the fantasy of old-fashioned hegemony, naively thinking they can keep to themselves, survive by creating external crises, and try to continue controlling the world relying on outdated rules of dominance.

This is the biggest cognitive disconnect and also the root of its decline.

Many people are still afraid of the U.S., not because it’s truly all-powerful, but because they’ve been brainwashed by Western narratives for so long. They only see its remaining hardware advantages, and fail to see the deep truth of its systemic collapse, foundational decay, and fatal self-destruction。

All of the U.S.’s foreign actions today aren’t about asserting strength, but a desperate struggle before decline; it’s not about playing the game to gain, but constantly stacking fatal internal injuries, destroying the foundation of its own hegemony.

The hegemony is ending, the trend is clear.

Only by letting go of this obsession with fearing the U.S. can we see the root of the times.