Commentary from Dr Richard Haas in Bloomberg.

His comments on US as a lynchpin are not supported by all, but they are factual since WW2, and likes of Bretton Woods, United Nations, IMF, BIS, thus do constitute a risk.

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Even before Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania, Dr. Richard Haass, a veteran diplomat and senior counselor at M&A advisory specialist Centerview Partners, had no doubt about the biggest short-term geopolitical risk

“It’s the uncertainty about the role of the United States in the world,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg TV last week. “We have been such a lynchpin of ordering the world for the last three quarters of the century from our entry into World War II. You can’t take that for granted anymore.”

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“Polarization, and with it the potential for political violence, has reached dangerous levels in the United States,” Haass said in a follow-up statement on Monday. “At a minimum, acute division makes it more difficult if not impossible for the political process to address core challenges; at worst, it constitutes a threat to democracy itself.