I offer some paraphrased excerpts from the interview – no transcript, just as fast as I could type.  I will offer these paraphrased excerpts without further comment until the conclusion.

Batchelor asks: Are the American people well informed that we have reached the limits of our strength?

Per Vlahos, the regular people see it and the elites transmit it via empty slogans.  For example, when Trump says Make America Great Again, well, this suggests it currently isn't; when Hillary says America is still great, the pleading in her voice is obvious.

After WWII, we thought we could do anything and the whole world thought we could do anything.  This was in decline within a couple of decades but turned upward during Reagan.

Since 911 – and it isn't the attacks, but instead the manner of the US response – the US has conspired to slowly de-legitimate its own authority.  This is now fully exposed via the divisiveness in the imperial city – we look foolish to Americans and to the rest of the world.