Tucker Carlson

That's who's in charge.

That's the head of household.

That's the head of the world.

So that's what's at stake.

Who runs the world?

Now, is this good or bad from an American perspective?

Well, that's a more complicated question.

Short term, of course, it's bad.

There's a humiliation coming at some point.

You hope it's not too profound.

You hope it's not, you know, 10 times worse than the fall of Saigon in 1975 or the retreat from Kabul just a few years ago.

You hope not because it's dispiriting and people will die and it's just awful in every way.

But at some point, it will become clear that the United States couldn't do the thing that great powers do, which is keep commerce going.

And so it doesn't mean the United States is not a great power.

It just means it's not as great as maybe some people imagine it was.

It's not as powerful as our leaders told us it was, and in some cases actually thought it was.

And what that really means is the unipolar moment is over.

Now, it's been over for a while, but in the minds of your average U.S.

senator from Nebraska, we're in charge of everything and everyone will just bow to our terms.

And that's not true, hasn't been true for at least 15 years.