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<p>[U.S&lt;/a&gt;. power, influence will decline in future, report says - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/20/global.trends.report/index.html]U.S”>U.S. power, influence will decline in future, report says - CNN.com)</p>

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<p>If we end up being like Canada, I’m fine with that.</p>

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<p>Every world power has its day in the sun…and then comes sunset. One need look no further than Russia and Great Britain. Spain and Portugal were once world powers. </p>

<p>Much as some think that it is the destiny of the US to be THE world power forever, history says don’t count on it.</p>

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<p>It’s been coming for a long long time, I don’t know that I expected to read it as a headline instead of just realizing it slowly, but many have been talking about the US losing their ‘spot’ for decades</p>