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America as this century grinds on and the West in general, led by America, declines in relative importance to the rising Asian powers, China above all, but also India, Indonesia, the dynamic countries of Southeast Asia that are growing rapidly, and yes, Russia too, which is aligning itself with Asia and turning away from its centuries-old Westward orientation after finally realizing (it took long enough) that Westerners will never see Russians as true, equal Europeans.
So as America loses its preeminence in the world, the whole era of Western preeminence comes to a close. At best we enter a multipolar world in which the combined West, if it can remain tight and allied, is one of the several key players of the global economy, political system, banking system, culture and so on.
If the West cannot hang together in the future, then Asia will dominate in a unipolar Asian world in which disunited Western countries are picked off one at a time by the new Asian hegemon, brought to heel and subjugated so that the economic output of these isolated countries can be restructured to benefit Asia under new terms of trade in a new global system.
The World Wars were the greatest foolishness in European history, worse even than the fall of Rome. If the West ever regains its top spot in the world, it will be like Europe's revival after Rome's collapse in the West: a process requiring more than a millennium to unfold.