This edict proposes the formation of a unified power - a single federation of the United States and Europe or 'United States of the West.

Its hard to believe a European would write about a Frenchman who renounces his citizenship to become an American. Its even harder to believe when the author is French homme de gauche Rgis Debray who fought alongside Che Guevara, advised Chilean President Salvador Allende, and was confidante to French President Mitterand. His book makes the tongue-in-cheek argument that resistance to the overwhelming power of the US is in vain and Europes only hope for survival is in its absorption by the United States.