>>509246215Yea this is true.
However the reality is that American soft power was always rendered ineffectual by American hard power bullying across the world.
So taking down USAID may be necessary in order for a "reset" of US' relationships worldwide. The next step is for the US to readjust their military spending and scale back on some of their worldwide military obligations, those benefit nobody but the MIC, reassess their hard and soft power capacity, and rebuild those networks from the ground up.
I don't know what sort of economic niche the US will be able to find in the future, but I will say that their position as world peacekeeper that simultaneously topples benign foreign governments and invades foreign countries for no reason needs to change.
The future of the world will be governed by trade. It's inevitable. All out war is simply no longer an option for any superpower. People here love to imagine a war between the US and China, but both militaries are so substantial there can be no winner, only losers. I think even in most optimistic scenarios such a war would last well over 50 years even if it isn't cut short by world ending nuclear weapons.