sorry, should have put quotation marks, I meant it a bit facetiously. Usually articles about America&#x27;s decline have that sort of bent to it (&quot;Emperor has no cloths&quot;, etc.)<p>I do think that the US gets away with much more stuff than it would in another universe. Especially in the financial domain (American sanctions work so well because of the virality of the regulations and the ubiquity of the dollar). But hey, Russia annexed a part of Ukrain, so they&#x27;re not the only one.