It was not a Democrat, nor a foreign adversary, who said it. It was Tucker Carlson — the same man who spent years as one of the most recognisable faces of Trump's political movement — who sat in front of a camera and told his audience that the United States' reign as the world's dominant power is finished. Not fading. Finished.
'You're watching the end of the global American empire,' Carlson said on his podcast earlier this month. 'The unipolar world is over. Something once great has become unrecognisable.' The clip spread quickly, drawing nearly 560,000 views on X alone, with supporters and critics alike struggling to reconcile the statement with the man who made it.
