With the US distracted by Trump and the UK by Brexit, they’re about to see a decline in their global power – Independent February 25, 2017 by Fulcrum One need only look to Yeltsin’s Russia to see how great powers fall. Both Trump and Yeltsin won power as demagogic anti-establishment leaders who won elections by promising reform. The result in Russia was calamitous national decline and the same thing could now happen in America Patrick Cockburn. Independent. 25 February 2017 FulcrumShareTweetShare