Afrasianet - Ghasat Melhem - The total public debt in the United States has exceeded the threshold of gross domestic product (GDP), or the size of its macroeconomy, and is now more than $36 trillion! What is the fate and future of American power? 

The United States of America is still in the first place, whether it is military power, with its military budget of nearly 900 billion dollars, or economic power, as its gross domestic product exceeded 30 trillion dollars, which indicates the size of its armies, military and armed forces, as well as the size of its macroeconomy.

The theory of force has become complex, divided between hard  power, soft  power, and smart power. This is the game that the United States of America has created, and it is more good at than others. What about the geopolitics of power in American national security?

The first term and the national internal sphere

The first level of American power is within the scope of the geographical space and the natural sphere of the American interior, referring to the territory of the United States of America along its extension.

It is the nucleus or solid mass of American capitalism, and thus the project of American capitalist expansion from the inside out, including the traditional and modern American colonial expansion, so that within this first range and the national sphere of the United States of America, a map of the largest and most powerful empire in the world and in history is formed, since the end of the Second World War, and then the Cold War, to the present day. 

The second range and the regional external sphere

The second level of American power then refers us to the geographical and natural extension, regional or continental, of the United States of America to the north and south, referring to North and South America, including the Central American region, where the American continent, or rather the two American continents, represents the vital space (espace/vital space) of the territory of this American country in geopolitical and geopolitics, going back to the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, and then the Wilson Doctrine in 1918.

For the United States of America, this geopolitical and geopolitical region remains the first line of defense for this empire and its backyard, which makes the incursion or infiltration into it a red line, which Washington cannot tolerate or tolerate, in any way, any global pole and any world power from the great and major powers in the region and the world. This has made it hardline here in the face of all threats, such as the recent experience of Venezuela, and before that, a model Cuba and the Bay of Pigs crisis formerly.

Third Range and the Traditional Outer Sphere

The third level of American power extends from Western Europe, almost all the way to Germany, through the Atlantic Ocean to the east and Southeast Asia, and not to mention Japan and Taiwan, and to the Pacific Ocean to the west.

Throughout history and memory, it refers us to the Marshall Plan of 1947 for reconstruction and reconstruction at the end of the Second World War, especially the allied and friendly countries, devastated and affected by the war, which revolve in the political, military, strategic and economic orbit of the United States of America, and which are at the head of the Western axis or camp, the capitalist-liberal  camp.

This traditional external sphere is a natural area of influence for the Americans, within the global map of influence, which includes a group of allies, partners, and traditional friends to the United States of America, such as the Anglo-Saxons, the Japanese, and then the French, the Germans, and others. This may explain the Americans' attempts to tighten control and control over countries and governments in this particular region, specifically from the world, i.e., the Western world, and to abort all initiatives, projects, ambitions, and aspirations, such as the thesis related to the idea of The United European Army.

The Fourth Term and the Strategic External Sphere

The fourth level of American power remains, and it may seem to be the last, the farthest and the highest, in the arrangement of the areas and ranges of combined power in American national security. It affects distant places, regions, and regions, which fall within this scope, sphere or space, geographical, strategic, long-term and long-term, which exceeds and exceeds the third level of medium range, and the second level is near and short term.

The fourth and final scope of many American wars in the region and the world, such as the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and before that, the invasion of Afghanistan in 2002, within the framework of the Bush doctrine, as well as the war in Syria, the war in Libya, and the war in Yemen, during the so-called Arab Spring, within the Obama doctrine.

These events have resulted in challenges, threats and dangers, which are new and even unprecedented, and of a political, strategic, security and military nature. This has made the American empire, according to the opinions of many American and European thinkers and theorists, a bloated empire, which is of course sprawling, and may be stressful, exhausting and exhausting, because it is burdened with such tasks and burdens in those distant places. 

Unprecedented impasse

The United States of America may seem to be the first of its kind among a group that is equal to some, and even to many, between supporters and opponents. However, reality and reality indicate that Washington is still at the forefront of the global scene, as well as in the global balance of international powers, and perhaps without a rival to balance and parallel it, or to say a contender. However, it is facing serious problems, and it may face an unprecedented predicament!

It remains to be noted that the total volume of public debt has exceeded and exceeded the threshold of gross domestic product, or the size of its macroeconomy, and it has become more than 36 trillion US dollars! What is the fate and future of American power? What is its characterization and classification: is it a growing and growing force? Or is it a declining, diminishing and declining force? Or maybe it's a renewable and expanding force?