Depends on how you pick your yardsticks,

I literally defined the yardstick already and you cut it off right out of my quote. Don’t do that.

Look, you’ve got an axe to grind with the USA and for good reasons, but you’re twisting my words to hear something I’m not saying.

Are you going to sit there with a straight face and tell me that USA hasn’t dominated economically and geopolitically for most of the 80 years since the end of WW2?

Preaching to the choir!

I’m not sure what you’re trying to say, honestly.

I get what you’re saying, but the greatness I’m speaking of refers to geopolitical and economic greatness, and I hold no illusions that it is wholesome.

To literally answer your question, USA as a superpower came to be following the Second World War, more or less.

A fall from greatness is inevitable and I’m afraid that the fall of America, with all of her hubris, is going to be spectacularly bloody and unpleasant for everyone. :(

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