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“Unipolar Moment is Over” How America Lost Its Ultimate Power - and what comes next.

“Unipolar Moment is Over” How America Lost Its Ultimate Power - and what comes next.

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 In this episode of The Jay Martin Show, Jay sits down with bestselling author and foreign policy expert Scott Horton. Horton takes aim at America’s role as a global superpower, arguing that Washington’s pursuit of global hegemony has drained U.S. wealth, created blowback, and undermined liberty at home. This is a provocative, unfiltered conversation on empire, debt, and the future of American power Pick up your copy of "Provoked" today: https://a.co/d/8AF3ZeE Follow Scott: https://scotthorton.org/ https://libertarianinstitute.org/scott/ https://x.com/scotthortonshow https://antiwar.com/ https://www.scotthortonshow.com/ Learn to invest alongside the top minds in commodities. Join The Commodity University today. CLICK: https://linkly.link/26yH8 Sign up for my free weekly newsletter at https://2ly.link/211gx Be part of our online investment community: https://cambridgehouse.com https://twitter.com/JayMartinBC https://www.instagram.com/jaymartinbc https://www.facebook.com/TheJayMartinShow https://www.linkedin.com/company/cambridge-house-international 00:00 – America’s empire myth vs. global reality 05:30 – Debt, interest payments, and the cost of empire 09:15 – How U.S. hegemony created global competitors 13:40 – What America could be without empire 18:05 – The “dangerous world” argument—myth or reality? 21:45 – Why America is actually secure at home 24:20 – Iraq War lies and the politics of fear 26:00 – State creep: America looking more like China? 33:20 – Taiwan, microchips, and nuclear risk 38:30 – America’s loss of moral authority 44:00 – How war undermined America’s credibility with China Copyright © 2025 Cambridge House International Inc. All rights reserved.
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