Bullies always get their cummupance eventually.

Well...to the extent that the U.S. government is a geopolitical bully, its comeuppance will likely comes from a war with China. That's what the "Thucydides Trap forecasts.

[That name comes from the Greek historian Thucydides, whose History of the Peloponnesian War concluded that war between Athens and Sparta was caused by up-and-coming Athens alarming predominant Sparta. The "Thucydides trap" explains WW1.]