American decline
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American decline is the idea that the United States is diminishing in power on a relative basis geopolitically, militarily, financially, economically, and technologically. It can also refer to absolut
Disused Bethlehem Steel plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. At the height of its success and productivity, the company was a symbol of American manufacturing leadership in the world. The company suspended most of its steelmaking operations in 1982 and declared bankruptcy in 2001; this factory is now part of the Bethlehem Works development site.
Gerontocracy
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A gerontocracy is a form of rule in which a political entity is ruled by leaders who are substantially older than most of the population. In many political structures, power within the ruling class ac
American decline
…political commentator Julius Krein argued that the decline of the United States parallels the late Soviet Union vis-à-vis the "unmistakable" slide into gerontocracy. Columnist Charles Krauthammer: "If the Roman empire had declined at this rate, you'd be reading this column in Latin…
Meeting of the seven representatives of the Warsaw Pact countries in 1987: Gustáv Husák, Todor Zhivkov, Erich Honecker, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Wojciech Jaruzelski, and János Kádár. Their average age then was 69.
Leonid Brezhnev (then 72; right) and Dmitry Ustinov (then 71; left) at the 1979 Revolution Day Parade
Mahathir Mohamad became the world's oldest serving state leader (aged 92 years, 304 days at the time) and was also officially recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest serving prime minister.
Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei was 81 years old during this Friday service in 2020.