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No. By the exercise in levity, you also seem to be ambivalent about it.
This is just what decline looks like. It's very naked and brazen with Biden, but that his senility is on full display only demonstrates that the Presidency is more of a presidium where the cabinet, advisors, and staff make the decisions; the President mediates and acts as spokesperson.
There is no inability to express and display power on the world stage, it is just a diminished form of this antagonism. The US is still ruining its enemies and puppets. It's just those subjects have adapted to those tactics to soften the blows.
I don't think Hezbollah is going to attack Israel either; I think Israel's decline is more precarious and amplified but the US will keep it alive as a zombie state as long as they suit each others needs. Israel will continue to bleed citizens who, if they don't have dual citizenship, will just try to emigrate to Europe & US as economic opportunities pull them there and economic stagnation looms in Israel. The trajectory it was on before Oct 7th.
Domestically, the US has crushed any nascent left-liberal, leftist, or left anti-capitalist/government movement and force. Those groups, such as they are, are scattered and weakened. And although there is growing consciousness and antagonism towards the government and capitalist order, there is no coherent ideologies, movement, activists, and party to mobilize and articulate a vision of an alternative.
Even the tactics of protest and resistance are diminished as they often are just glorified rallies and parades. Activists don't even need to resort to violence or property damage. They could just block airports, seaports, roads, warehouses, et cetera but most Americans aren't even up for that.
Ultimately, USD hegemony and global dependence define and determine the macro-tangible outcomes of our political landscape.