In the book “The Fall of America,” the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad writes a chapter titled “America’s Loss of Friendship.” In it, He writes, “America has not only lost and is still losing friendship all over Asia and Africa … but she is now losing friendship right here with her next-door neighbors, Central and South America.”
Numerous international polls and surveys bear witness to the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s 1973 forecast for the country.
In an April 2025 poll of 29 nations (including the U.S.) by the research firm Ipsos, 17 nations said the United States would have a negative influence on world affairs. Conversely, in a September 2024 survey of those same nations, 24 of those 29 felt the U.S. would have a positive influence on world affairs.
Of her closest neighbors, Canada, which has the largest border with the U.S., 19% feel the U.S. will have a positive influence on world affairs, down from 52% in late 2024. In Mexico, 46% feel the U.S. would have a positive influence on world affairs, down from 67% in 2024.
A 2025 Pew Research Center survey of 24 nations found that 19 nations rated the U.S. negatively in its leadership rating. Seventy-seven percent of Canadians and 91% of Mexicans rated “no confidence” in America to “do the right thing regarding world affairs.”
In the United Kingdom (England), more than 60% voiced “no confidence” in the U.S. to do the right thing regarding world affairs,” a figure shared by Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, South Korea, and Brazil, among others.
A survey by YouGov tracker data mirrored statistics from Pew, where 30% of Britons said the U.S. is a “friend and ally” of Britain and Europe, down from 42% in 2024.
Commenting on the declining trust among U.S. allies, Ipsos Vice President Chris Jackson sounded an alarm: “… the reputation of the United States as a force for good in the world has taken a serious hit, particularly among our traditional allies in Europe and Canada.”
Bloomberg columnist Andreas Kluth affirmed Jackson’s concern in his September column titled “America’s friends will never trust the U.S. again.” The column reports on a letter more than 300 U.S. foreign policy.
Intelligence and national security veterans wrote to Congress demanding “a classified intelligence assessment” that answers questions about America’s “stable democracy” and if the U.S. would remain a “reliable partner” to her allies.
They also asked if allies should develop “contingency plans for war” where they might even have to fight U.S. forces “if America aligns with Russia against NATO or Ukraine,” for example.
These are serious national security questions that the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan have sounded the alarm and offered warnings for decades.
In “The Fall of America,” the Honorable Elijah Muhammad says America’s nearest neighbors in Central and South America will accept her material offerings, but their hearts would not be with America.
We are currently witnessing heightened tensions with our Central and South American neighbors. The U.S. has moved its largest aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy, the USS Gerald Ford, and a flotilla of warships off Venezuela’s coast.
The move was preceded by U.S. bombings of boats in international waters off the coast of Venezuela. The stated motivation for the U.S. military presence is to prevent drug smuggling; however, observers of world affairs suggest the real motive is gaining access to the largest oil reserves in the world under Venezuelan soil and regime change in that nation.
The threat of military action by the U.S. has put Venezuela and Colombia on military alert. Mexico was recently warned by the Trump administration of possible U.S. troops on Mexican soil.
In another chapter, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad writes, “America loves meddling into other people’s affairs. … America goes abroad and makes war against other people. Then she charges them with making war against her when she is the one who is guilty.”
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad continues that America looks for sympathy when she suffers a tragedy or setback, but when she “breaks up the countries of other peoples and destroys their independence and freedom, she laughs and prides herself as doing a great thing. She puts her feet upon their economic neck and destroys their independence as a nation.”
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, in part 14 of his 58-part series “The Time and What Must Be Done,” states, “One of the things that the American people are not aware of is America’s foreign policy. … How you treat the ethnic groups/the racial groups within America is how you will treat those that come from other nations to be made ‘Americans.’
So, if our government does not have a good domestic policy toward Mexican people, how will they have a good policy toward … Hondurans or Jamaicans or Barbadians or Africans in America and in The Diaspora.
How could America’s policies be good for them if they’re not good for those who live within the borders of what is called ‘The United States of America?’ … Even Europeans have tasted of ‘the meddling of America’ in the affairs of their nations!”
These two witnesses of Allah (God) have heralded the presence of Allah (God) in the world today and the fact that He is executing His Active Will to bring down the tyrants of every nation, with a particular focus on the United States for the holocaust on her Black former slaves and their children.
They have warned that—as it was with Babylon, ancient Egypt, Sodom and Gomorrah and other peoples and nations that have fallen under Divine Chastisement—repentance and atonement are the only solutions to America’s problems.
“Will America repent that she should be healed, or will she ignore it?” the Honorable Elijah Muhammad asks. How she answers these questions will determine her fate.
—James G. Muhammad, Contributing Editor