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Assuming this is a jab on "empires only last 250 years", I would like to point out that the number usually refers to the estimate on how long, on average, is the golden age/peace period of a nation last after becoming the hegemon.
Don't worry, the US will survive long, but not as the superpower anymore. See Europe for example after their empires crumbled.
Europe is a superpower, economic and military. Even without nato you don't want to fuck with let's say, Germany, France, UK, Italy and Spain working together. These 5 are half of the top 10 arms exporters in the world, for example.
Europe could defend itself, sure, but it wouldn't qualify as superpower in the military area. It doesn't have the same power projection as it used to have and what the US has now. Europe's military state has been abandoned since the end of cold war and production fell. That is why Europe is struggling to produce equipment for Ukraine. The continent has been reliant of US for much of its military munitions, vehicles and equipment.