Seems near certain .
But is it really going to be a great loss ?
An Empire without a Culture and one that uses terrorist tactics to thieve and control .
Over 800 bases just to control and manipulate .
Seems something is very badly wrong when there is an Empire so afraid of its own shadow .
Roman Empire 2.0 ?
Wrong in a hundred ways !
Two world wars within a half century's time frame, caused and started by Old World nations(like your UK), supposedly 'older and wiser', and in both cases the USA had to spend our lives and treasure to fix your mistakes, poor judgement, greed, and stupidity, by bringing those wars to an end.
The USA learned the lesson, don't leave the world in the hands of senile, feeble, greedy old nations if we don't want to have to settle WWIII, WWIV, etc.
The majority of the wars since World War Two, around this planet, have tend to be in former colonies of "empires with faulty cultures" such as Spain, Portugal, France, UK, etc. who spent the last five centuries fugging up the world using their own "terrorist tactics" for their own purpose of theft and control.
The five centuries worth of global mess YOUR pederasty created around this planet will take more than a few decades for the USA to fix and patch up. We aren't happy about the job and peeved we have to do it, but you all of the rest of the international community keep showing your incompetence and perverse talent to screw things up.
So just STFU and stay out of the way.
While we are busy fixing your basket of mistakes, try to grow up and become mature and responsible nations.
The planet doesn't need five more centuries of your failures, "control", manipulation, theft(greed), vacuous culture, and incompetence.
Don't lecture us when your track record is so horrendous.
Time to let the proven experts fix it.