{"id":22457,"date":"2026-06-07T23:25:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T23:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22457"},"modified":"2026-06-07T23:25:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T23:25:48","slug":"americas-decline-is-worse-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22457","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Decline is Worse Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The USA is losing its military dominance. It is not adapting fast enough to changing technologies that make killing Americans in war easier. Still, there are many military objectives it could achieve over potential enemies, but the US is not willing to take the casualties necessary to achieve those objectives, and America&#8217;s potential enemies know it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"America\u2019s Decline is Worse Than You Think\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I5QtOOhJarA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USA is losing its military dominance. It is not adapting fast enough to changing technologies that make killing Americans in war easier. Still, there are many military objectives it could achieve over potential enemies, but the US is not willing to take the casualties necessary to achieve those objectives, and America&#8217;s potential enemies know it. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I5QtOOhJarA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2269,89,53,629,272,355,314,156,259,1791,619],"class_list":["post-22457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-casualties","tag-china","tag-deaths","tag-decline","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-military","tag-public-opinion","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22458,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22457\/revisions\/22458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}