The US Just Doesn't Want To Admit It Is A Second Rate Nation With A Massive International Debt
Long ago the US had it all: money, opportunity, talent, leadership, manufacturing and a vision.
Now look at it. Reduced to borrow more money, opportunity slipping away to Europe and the Far East along with talent, elect an inveterate liar, massive tranches of manufacturing transferred (so corporate profits soar) and technical shortsightedness. The country can't even feed itself. And it has to rent seats on Russian rockets to reach the International Space Station!
The only thing the US excels in in is spying, spying on most every communications system extant. What is the purpose of having an NSA spy office in Cambodia, especially now it has it's own InterNet feed, rather than via VietNam. And making sure the few networking systems it leak like Harry Belafonte's famous bucket.
Don't laugh, Britain doesn't even make machine screws.