The US is losing its world superpower status due to its failure to lead on the Covid-19 crisis – and this time, it might not recover | The Independent

The US is losing its world superpower status due to its failure to lead on the Covid-19 crisis – and this time, it might not recover | The Independent: The US may be reaching its “Chernobyl moment” as it fails to lead in combating the coronavirus epidemic. As with the nuclear accident in the Soviet Union in 1986, a cataclysm is exposing systemic failings that have already weakened US hegemony in the world. Whatever the outcome of the pandemic, nobody is today looking to Washington for a solution to the crisis.