"We are in the time of monsters. An empire simply won't just give up. Everything I have said that sounds so negative is based on this idea that the US-led empire won't just give up and say: 'Okay, we have been militarily defeated.' They will use coercion, fragmentation, and violence. Our job now is to not normalize this."

I had a deep and urgent conversation with Ali Borhani from FuturEarly about the unraveling of the global order. Too many analysts look at the current geopolitical landscape and conclude that the US Empire is already collapsing. Yet, this is decline. Watch the full conversation here: