I mean, the infrastructure has been actively falling apart for years, people can’t afford the fuel to get to work, half of the country is actively trying to sabotage the rest of it…
America is declining slowly, but there is nobody else that can take the scepter by then, both militarily and economically. It's far more likely that China will have collapsed into multiple warring states by the 2050s than for the US to implode. I consider it unlikely that the EU can step in either due to the friction between Eastern and Western Europe preventing or at the very least severely limiting further integration - and who knows the shape Russia is in at that point, but I can for certain say that it won't be that of a world power.
You don’t, and because of that the UN is losing its relevance. It was never perfect, but it’s increasingly sidelined by major powers that will just do whatever they want. The Palestinian genocide shows us that it is unable to stop a genocide, the war in Ukraine and previously the war in Iraq show that it can’t stop powers from just invading whomever. Even as a forum it is losing relevance, with smaller groups like the G7 and BRICS, or regional blocs like the EU and ASEAN becoming the source of new international policy.
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