Control of the periphery is looking real shaky. Multipolarity is pretty much a fait accompli right now. The core of the empire itself is objectively crumbling. The institutions that mediate conflicts between internal concentrations of power have become completely incapable of doing anything. So there's not going to be a correction to the trends unless something revolutionary happens.

Not to say the US empire isn't still daunting in its hard and soft power. But boy did taking Russia off of SWIFT land with a wet fart. And it sure seems like the US military is a paper tiger from how their equipment has been performing to say nothing of NATO tactics.

That and they fucked up the sino-soviet split by putting Russia and China on the same side of an issue. That's the greatest foreign policy win for the empire in the 20th century gone.