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True. I meant that, what's happening is other regions of the world are beginning to pull themselves up by the boot straps. Take China, for example. In effect, US hegemony would decrease as other nations advanced and become ever more self-sufficient. I don't subscribe to the idea that this in itself equates with decline.
I'm talking more about this.
The Romans were "even bigger" till the very end. The Eastern Roman Empire became even bigger until the jihads started taking a toll on them in the XIth century.