The U.S. once feared nuclear weapons.
Now it fears something quieter.
A bank in Shanghai.
A railway in Africa.
A corridor through Central Asia.
Not mushroom clouds.
Memorandums.
Not warheads.
Warehouses.
That is how empires die:
Not by invasion, but by irrelevance.
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