America seems to be teetering on collapse, but still I keep hearing about them spreading their influence in eastern Europe and South America. What would have to happen to get them to stop? I know the British Empire collapsed under mountains of debt after WW2, can US imperialism slow down just a little?
It's entirely about capacity to maintain hegemony through violence and the threat of violence: the US can not run out of material resources until its client states decide to stop providing them, and whenever one of them tries the US makes an extremely bloody example of them either directly or through arming fascist death squads to do a coup and mass murders. The US is increasingly losing the stand-offs that lead up to that, but it still has a long way to go before it materially cannot control its empire anymore.
Ive been pretty happy with Iran and Venezuela's ability to stand up against America, hopefully more countries can follow in their footsteps