Pre-eminence

Conrad Black writes a tour d’horizon of who’s up and down in world affairs, appearing in Canada’s National Post which he once owned. Patriotic Americans will like what he finds, see his conclusion.

The United States, appearing to be disorderly, its establishment and media at war with the occupant of the White House, is demonstrating almost effortlessly how illusory is the idea that any other country or group of countries can challenge its pre-eminence among the world’s nations.

Canadians may not like it; the world may try to pretend otherwise, but however the domestic political tides of America may flow, North Korea is on its best behaviour, the ayatollahs are quaking in their voluminous raiment, and all America’s trade partners, including Canada and China, are accepting what amounts to unilateral renegotiation by the U.S.

No other country in the world has any appreciable influence at all more than a few hundred miles from its borders.

Read the whole thing. Hat tip to RealClearPolitics for the link.