I'm not sure why the CIA director would say this but there must be a reason. I mean, it's one thing when Harper's Magazine says it: 172 Year Old Harper's Magazine Declares The American Century Is Over and quite another when one of the most powerful people in the O'Biden - Harris administration says it is so.
From Al Mayadeen, April 13:
William Burns, CIA Director, says the US can no longer guarantee its global position and has become challenged by the rise of both China and Russia.
CIA Director William Burns stated that the US no longer has the ability to guarantee its role as the dominant global hegemon as the country has been witnessing critical juncture change “that comes along a couple of times a century."
The CIA chief, during an address at the Baker Institute earlier this week, explained that despite the fact that Washington “still has a better hand to play than any of our rivals,” it is “no longer the only big kid on the geopolitical block and our position at the head of the table isn’t guaranteed.”
Moreover, Burns stressed that the growing relationship between Beijing and Moscow, which is set to become a “formidable challenge” for the CIA, refused to remain secondary global players. As such, the CIA chief highlighted the challenges and alleged that Beijing was “not content to only have a seat at the table; it wants to run the table,” while Russia, claimed Burns who served as the US ambassador to Moscow under George W. Bush, sought to “upend the table altogether.”
Ukraine from the CIA perspective
While Burns claimed the war in Ukraine was a "brutish aggression" by Russia, the chief also admitted that the CIA had actively provided Kiev with “good intelligence” that has “helped the Ukrainians." Additionally, the CIA chief added that the US intelligence offered to Kiev had allegedly cemented “a strong coalition in support of Ukraine.”Significantly, and following the leak of documents whose authenticity Russia doubted, Burns announced that Kiev's spring counteroffesive, which has been anticipated by many, would include “strong material and intelligence support from the US and our allies.”....
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