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Are you saying it has more to do with chairing meetings?

• IfOnlyYouKnew 6y ago
  No idea what you're insinuating. I believe most international meetings are run with rotating chairs. The concept is called "soft power". Practically, it means that when the US asked for something before, say, 2016, they'd get their wish, as long as it wasn't entirely unreasonable and/or didn't cost others too much. Nowadays, they have trouble getting other countries to pick up the phone. And while that is likely to improve somewhat within a month or so, it isn't ever going to go back to where it was. You think you can get the French to agree to, say, extended copyright terms that benefit Disney and Microsoft with military threats? How does that work, exactly? Even born-again christians are going to have a hard time to justify mass murder with some marginal economic utility.