Ich verstehe auch. If I'm anti-american, that's news to me. I sought to discuss the evolving world, not scorn my country. Look at the difference between this report and the one issued 4 years ago, when it was projected that America would continue to dominate both militarily and economically for the foreseeable future, while democracy would continue to flourish around the globe, .
NIC - Mapping the Global Future

Now it appears this future is not to be.
Devilstower:the central points of the NIC assessment are that 2025 will see a world where the US has declining influence, where free market economies are losing out to state-controlled capitalism, where democracy is imperiled, and an unstable set of political rivals skirmish over dwindling resources.
Others have said it before me, but we now get to witness the butterfly effect of 8 years of policy brought to us by the letter W.
Devilstower: you've heard of the butterfly effect, right? That's the bit where small effects now can have large effects in distance time or place. Just think of this as the Republican Buzzard Effect, wherein large scale incompetence and massive bad decisions now turn into even more massive catastrophic screw ups for the future.