America shot itself in the foot! We have less and less people able to manufacture stuff, American work ethic is a thing of the past, and we funded the growth of China, which in the last 2 decades transformed itself of a great manufacturing power, which initially started by copying, but it's now leading including in the scientific discoveries area. Also, in order to the ties between Russia and Germany, we made a new union between Russia and China, which was the most stupid thing one could've come up with given Russian resources and Chinese manufacturing power! By trying to make Europe weak, we made China strong!