“Unipolar Moment is Over” How America Lost Its Ultimate Power - and what comes next.

In this episode of The Jay Martin Show, Jay sits down with bestselling author and foreign policy expert Scott Horton. Horton takes aim at America’s role as a global superpower, arguing that Washington’s pursuit of global hegemony has drained U.S. wealth, created blowback, and undermined liberty at home. This is a provocative, unfiltered conversation on empire, debt, and the future of American power Pick up your copy of "Provoked" today: https://a.co/d/8AF3ZeE Follow Scott: https://scotthorton.org/ https://libertarianinstitute.org/scott/ https://x.com/scotthortonshow https://antiwar.com/ https://www.scotthortonshow.com/ Learn to invest alongside the top minds in commodities. Join The Commodity University today. CLICK: https://linkly.link/26yH8 Sign up for my free weekly newsletter at https://2ly.link/211gx Be part of our online investment community: https://cambridgehouse.com https://twitter.com/JayMartinBC https://www.instagram.com/jaymartinbc https://www.facebook.com/TheJayMartinShow https://www.linkedin.com/company/cambridge-house-international 00:00 – America’s empire myth vs. global reality 05:30 – Debt, interest payments, and the cost of empire 09:15 – How U.S. hegemony created global competitors 13:40 – What America could be without empire 18:05 – The “dangerous world” argument—myth or reality? 21:45 – Why America is actually secure at home 24:20 – Iraq War lies and the politics of fear 26:00 – State creep: America looking more like China? 33:20 – Taiwan, microchips, and nuclear risk 38:30 – America’s loss of moral authority 44:00 – How war undermined America’s credibility with China Copyright © 2025 Cambridge House International Inc. All rights reserved.