A NEW (KINDA OLD) WORLD ORDER!
Nassau, NP, The Bahamas
The empire emerged as American aristocratic novelist Gore Vidal explored in 5 historical novels beginning in 1824 with the Monroe Doctrine.
(The novels, all brilliant: Empire, Burr, 1876, Lincoln, United States)
Henry Kissinger took the view - beyond international law - that there was a “collective superpower prerogative”, so that Russia-China-US (with EU and Africa at the children’s table) should reflect the structure of the world order.
That is to say: Kissinger believed that led by the U.S., together with Russia and China, they should set the global agenda and the rest of the world should follow!
The Reaganites accused Kissinger of being “anti-American” for expousing a variety of multipolarity. That is, Reagan attacked Kissinger for not promoting the idea of “America first and leading with the other superpowers following and the rest of the world following them.
I leave it to you to determine whether Reagan should ever have been allowed in the same room with Kissinger.
But now, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio - one can’t get used to the notion - has withdrawn from the Reagan hubris of sole superpower, to a hybrid of Kissinger’s world order model; adding ‘zero sum’ insular multipolarity; meaning every man (nation) for himself!
