It is not going to happen. The throne is not going to be ...

It is not going to happen. The throne is not going to be kept warm. The American century-and-a-half of potential and century of actual global diplomatic preeminence is over. The question is whether there will be no hegemony, a Chinese hegemony, or an inner alliance of western Europe plus Canada, Japan, and Australia that set the pace: Dan Froomkin: Daalder and Lindsay Say: U.S. Allies Should Keep The Global Leadership 'Throne' Warm For Trump's Successor: "Ivo H. Daalder, who served as Barack Obama���s ambassador to NATO, and James M. Lindsay, a senior vice president of the Council on Foreign Relations, are out with a new book:��The Empty Throne: America���s Abdication of Global Leadership. They outline their plan for an interregnum in a companion piece entitled��The Committee to Save the World Order��published by Foreign Affairs...

...The authors express despair over Trump���s assault on the agreements and protocols developed to ���prevent the dog-eat-dog geopolitical competition that triggered World War II.��� But they waste no time hoping for Trump to come around. Instead, they propose that the ���Committee to Save the World Order��� take the U.S.���s traditional seat (throne) for the interim and keep it warm while the regular occupant is off carousing with dictators and launching trade wars. The group, which the authors nickname the ���G-9���, would consist of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the EU in Europe; Australia,��Japan, and South Korea in Asia; and Canada in North America...

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