The damage was done before Trump, before Obama, before Bush, before even Kissinger.
Obama played into a system he did not choose or want.
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Bush did considerable damage to the system, but it was already too weak to recover.
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There will come a day soon, barring some great upheaval in the order of things, when people no longer call the US president "most powerful".
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Coincidentally, the sitting administration seems aware of that fact and hell-bent on stopping it from happening. This will get interesting.