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