A very important thread and so few willing to read it. It must scare everyone.
Whoa..
Said the article, “ - account for shifts in the global distribution of power and the emergence of states such as China and India.”
Say I, “What shift in global distribution of power?” The USA is still the overwhelming power on earth.
China has how many nuclear carriers, subs, etc?
India “ “ “ “ “ “ “?
The only real power shifting is when we deploy our forces.
;-)
The real difficulty is the tacit assumption that multilateralism has had any particular success in advancing anything at all - security, prosperity, aid in time of disaster - the multilateralist approach is to build institutions, the unilateralist approach is to take action. Building institutions is a laudable pursuit if the objective of international relations is to house and feed a class of professional busybodies and control freaks. What it does for the people who are its ostensible beneficiaries is quite another, and lesser, thing.
What is evolving is not an international system at all, intentions despite. It is a tabula rasa in which countries such as Russia and China (and France and a host of others) act strictly in self-interest while bleating loudly that the United States must not be permitted to do so. Any institutionalism that purports to be international must supply one set of rules and behaviors for all - this is precisely what institutions such as the UN pretend to do and signally, categorically, and completely fail to deliver. Nor is it any particular merit to ensure that the membership of chronically anti-American organizations consists of increasing numbers of anti-American Americans.
Institutions that depend on voluntary participation by their membership and cheat on even-handedness will fail, and they all do so. The rampant anti-Americanism within them is the result of the dictum that their principle calling is to level the playing field by acting consistently against the interest of the most influential member of the moment. The notion that such actions shift power is true; that they shift power from the individual to the institution is patently false. And the other members know it, which explains such absurdities as the "Non-Aligned" movement, which is, of course, anything but.
Were it not for the existence of an international administrative and diplomatic class that seems to have every intention of transforming itself into a ruling class, the obvious lack of success, accountability, and moral sanction would have kicked these institutions into the dustbin of failed ideas long ago. That they survive is a testament to the persistence of this class, a triumph of hope over experience, and a sad proof of the nearly endless credulity of a deluded public.
Meet the new New World Order, same as the old New World Order.
If this is a Bilderburger report it has some validity, other wise it is hot air. Not all that hot really, just kind of warm.
It’s not the Bush strategy.
He’s merely a bit part player.
The puppet masters have outlined and scheduled all the main events of recent history.
They have more exciting things scheduled ahead.
. . . that is, if hell on earth fit’s one’s notion of exciting.
Bush is helping to build it.