All right, Alexander, we are here with the one and only Garland Nixon.

Garland, great to have you on The Duran before we get started.

Where can people follow your work?

They can find me at The Garland Nixon.

That's T.H.E. The Garland Nixon on X.

And, of course, on my YouTube show and Rumble and Rockfin and all of that kind of stuff.

And then the basics,

the Instagrams and the Facebooks and just look for Garland Nixon. I haven't seen another one.

That's a pretty rare name. I will have it in the description box down below those links.

And they will also be added as a PIN comet. So definitely if you're not following Garland, definitely check him out. And today we've got a lot of ground to cover. I've got a lot of news to go over.

So Alexander Garland, let's get into it.

Absolutely. And it is a huge pleasure to have Garland with us on this program, because

today in this program, we're going to discuss

topics about the United States, the limits of American power, the effect this is having in the

United States, which I cannot think of anyone better to talk about that Garland, because in my opinion, that is what

we're seeing. I have lived, I'm just long enough to have lived through another period in my

lifetime when the United States sort of hit the limits of its power, and that was in the late

1960s at the time of the war in Vietnam.

But since then, the world has changed. The Soviet Union collapsed. The Cold War ended.

We had the unipolar moment. We had a end of history rhetoric.

Suddenly now, or so it seems to me, we find ourselves in the same situation again.

But this time, because we've had this period of unipolarity, which has only ended very recently, I think the shock of it is even greater, much greater, going to be much greater than it was in the 60s. So why do I say

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