It's war chest depleted falling into ingenious traps set by a unified global south, and its intensifying domestic labor struggles having ultimately selected for revolutionary communist-led unions, a spent, divided, and demoralized US will die with a whimper, it's paper-thin loyalties bought with treats and privileges having run dry as imperialism sputters out and perishes.
You're not wrong. I posted a scathing comment on LinkedIn about not giving Reddit so much as a click or view in 2023. A week later Spez announced the throttling of the API requests/paid API access.