America's status as the world's greatest power will end for the same reason as its predecessors - crushed by a mountain of debt that politicians find convenient to ignore, historians have warned.
And the United States' century at the top could be coming to an end quicker than expected with countries in increasingly likely to pull the plug.
Interest payments on the debt overtook spending on defense earlier this month, but it will not be force of arms that brings the country down, according to historian Professor Niall Ferguson.
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