Norwegian sociologist Johann Galtung, a peace scientist, predicted the decline of the United States as a world power during Donald Trump's presidency.
A professor at the University of Hawaii, who was previously nominated for the Nobel Prize, had predicted in 2000 the collapse of what he called the "American Empire" before 2025, before returning and adjust his expectation to be before 2020, during the reign of Bush the son.
According to the website "Maatherford", Galtong believes that Trump's presidency will accelerate the process of "American collapse," but he corrected and said more in his words, "Of course we have to see before and see what he will do in his presidency."
The Republican president had previously indicated that the United States may not go to the rescue of NATO member states if they failed and failed to perform their own amounts in favor of military defense spending .
He said d. Galtung, "the imminent collapse of two sides: that other countries refuse to perform their duty in the alliance, then the United States is forced to carry out the tasks of killing and fighting alone through the bombing of air altitudes and drones controlled by computer computers from an office, "Both things are happening now, with the exception of Northern Europe, which supports these wars in principle, but that will not continue after 2020, and that's why I still have to stick to that history."
Ghaltong is well known for his meticulous anticipation of major political events such as the 1978 Iranian Revolution, Tiananmen Square demonstrations in China in 1989, and the events of September 11, but he is known for his prediction of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Galtung had predicted in his book "The Fall of the American Empire ... And What Next?" The rise of the fascist discourse on the American political scene, which some see embodied in the remarks of Trump before the elections, and adoption of an anti-immigrant policy.
But Zinia Wickett of the US and Americas Program at the Institute for Royal Studies, Chatham House, told the Independent that it was "completely unrealistic" and believed that the United States might not remain a global superpower by 2020.
"For many reasons, the United States is the world's most powerful army with the strongest and most powerful" soft power "in terms of the strength of its universities as well as the strength of its companies and the influence of its media, So the idea of a change in any of these things over the next four years is unrealistic. "