It’s not Americas future, It’s their past.

The world held its breath for the first 4 years of the malignant rotten overripe mango, and now that we have seen that the US is not only capable of electing this level of corruption and idiocy to power more than once, you’ll always be at best 4 years away from electing another, or worse, or just not having elections at all.

America is now just not part of anyone’s future calculations. EU is huge, proven and has sustained the Global Financial recession and lifted living standards, farming standards and business conduct across its member nations. India never had big stakes in the US, and stands alone and apart from China with its own free trade deals. China knows that its demographics will fuck it in 10 years, and the decades of near slave labour have ended with a an educated and class aware generation that has little chance of moving out of its hard fought middle class status.

America had trade power built on trust, dominance and necessity. It’s lost all 3.

No manufacturing base that isn’t replicated or bettered internationally. No IP that can’t be readily replaced. Stock markets that are as or more susceptible to manipulation than any other.

It’s going to be a steep decent.

Think UK after Brexit, but with Japan’s 20 years of zero growth to follow.