The sole-superpower system of the post-Cold War era is finally giving way to a multipolar, if not increasingly fragmented, world in which the United States must share the limelight with other major actors, including China, Russia, India, and Iran.
Rather, it's a struggle between two solar system superpowers, Saturn and Uranus, for the title of Most Moons.
"The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system," Mr. Steinbrück said.
"The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system," he told the Bundestag.
Most memorably, Germany's finance minister, Peer Steinbrück, declared last week that "the U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system," and that "the financial crisis was above all an American problem".
How is the world's only superpower home to an education system that lacks the highly productive, competitive model that other uniquely American industries embrace?
On Friday, the German finance minister, Peer Steinbrück, predicted that America would "lose its superpower status in the global financial system".
"System 1 is the superpower behind all the most amazing human feats that we can achieve.
An international system where the one remaining superpower is unpredictable is an inherently unstable system.
They showed how vulnerable the world's only superpower is: how imperfect our airport security systems, how unprotected even our military headquarters.
