Not even. Religious faith is usually disconnected from reality, and in a way can't be proven false. Here a simple check backwards and outward will tell anyone that, if "DNA for commerce" makes any sense at all for a country, it applies very well to China.

We're all riding on the shoulders of giants. The men who designed the postwar world were remarkably prescient in their engineering of affairs to benefit the United States.

The US has another decade or two of riding that wave until things get hairy.

Have you read "The Accidental Superpower"? Highly recommended.

It covers the demography, geology and geography that guarantees the USA will continue to be the predominant power for the next 25 years, if not longer.

Not sure I buy all his arguments, but definitely worth a read.

The problem is the can-do, hardcore engineering types (particularly those without college training) are gone and supplanted by layers of bureaucrats and bean counters.

There's always a certain amount of faith involved in future-predicting. Show me a sure-fire way to predict the future in any better way, and I'll take that and make billions with it.

If seeing what you want to see qualifies as prediction, I'd say you have it down pat. Congratulations in advance on your Thielesque attainment.