I think the article is very extreme and you can see the writers venom against the US clearly. However he does have some good points.
Now you can see why the US was so keen to sign up China as a favored trading partner. However I'm not sure what Russia has to offer.
Americans need to wake up and smell the coffee, the position they enjoy today is due to the power they held as the biggest market in the world. However if that market needs to be given the money to buy the goods then there is a problem.
Because the goods we Europeans, Asians and Antipedians are selling to them need to paid for. The raw materials, the labour forces and all other costs have to be paid for. Now if we are lending them the money they are spending so we can pay those bills then fine. But if they are consuming faster and faster, there has to be a stop.
What I think will happen is the World Bankers will start to slow down the consumenr boom in the US slowly, bringing it down without too big a bump.
However how long before an American pops his head into this thread and tells us everything is rosey because there are even more $30,000 cars on the road where he lives.
Or just tells us it's none of our business, not realising his country is being funded from overseas?
The problem with most Americans is they think Number 1 spot is theirs by right and can't be taken away. They don't realise people are trying to take it away from them every minute of every day.