Reposted from Joseph Wang computational astrophysicist on LinkedIn:

**Mitch’s note - I don’t agree the U.S. reputation has completely failed here as Joseph suggests.  I do however agree the U.S. establishment has in eyes of RoW, including with many U.S. allies.

“Also one reason that the US vision of the world has fallen apart is that the arguments have been used to justified it have collapsed.  One is that the US is fundamentally good and Russia and China are fundamentally evil.  That argument has gotten killed in Gaza, and Gaza has also killed the idea of a "rules based international order" and showed that all the talk about international law only matters when the US makes the rules.

The other argument is that a Russian/Chinese view of the world is bad for small countries and democracy.  The trouble is that the Blinken vision of the world involves the US dominating everyone, and you can ask European voters if they think they are in a democratic system or if the European Commission cares about national sovereignty.

Finally, there is the historical argument which Blinken and Sarah Paine of the Naval War College push which is that the US international system has existed since 1945, and this is just historically inaccurate.  The current system dates from 1991, and between 1945 and 1991, there was another superpower.  One other thing to note is that the existence of the Soviet Union had some positive effects on US politics.  One thing about the 1960's, is that the end of segregation and the civil rights movement was triggered by (quite justified) Soviet criticism of US treatment of minorities, and if you listen to Kennedy's speeches there was at least respect toward the Soviet Union.”