| Summary/Abstract |
US PRESIDENT Abraham Lincoln [purportedly] said: "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."1 It seems that the Americans have been faltering in recent years, wittingly or unwittingly making fateful mistakes that are having an ever-growing impact on the geopolitical situation of the US and the rest of the world. This is confirmed, in my view, by an analysis of certain key factors as well as the nature and possible repercussions of those mistakes stemming from shifts in the infrastructure of the modern world that pose closely interconnected internal and external existential challenges to the West in general and the US in particular...
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