If you haven't been NOTICING this about Tucker Carlson, then you should by now. This is a mask slip moment.

What he's touting here is multipolarity, which is nothing more than a politically correct way to say American decline.

The Chinese Communist Party has been chanting the exact same tune for years - a “peaceful rise,” a “multipolar world order,” and “shared power” with America. They couch it in such docile language knowing full well what it means - the slow erosion of American primacy while they build up their military capacity, steal tech, and dominate global supply chains.

Furthermore, Pax Sinica (a Chinese-led world order) and Pax America are fundamentally incompatible and mutually exclusive. They are antithetical systems. One cannot expand without shrinking the other.

Beijing explicitly views the current US-led order as “an unfair constraint to its rise” and wants to replace its norms with its own. Indeed it has violated many of these terms that defined the Post WWII order and the US, until Trump came along, did nothing in response to these violations. These include trade violations, territorial claims in the South China Sea, sketchy dual-use operations and tech, etc.

Multipolarity or “sharing power” is not a peaceful compromise - it’s the transition phase between one Pax and the next.

The CCP has never hidden that it wants a China-led order. The United States (until recently) never hid that it intends to preserve the one it built.

These two peaces cannot coexist any more than Pax Britannica and Pax Germania could have co-ruled Europe in 1914.

That’s why “multipolarity” is just Western declinism with better branding. America First isn’t about imperialism. It’s about refusing to live under rules and norms written in Beijing.

Tucker has shown he's not America First.