[link|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-599997,00.html|]

He told MPs that the greatest risk was not of a split within Nato but of a new climate in which the dominant superpower no longer worked with the international community. "To our European colleagues, I say take care," he said. "Just as America helps to define and influence our politics, what we do in Europe helps to define and influence American politics. We will reap a whirlwind if we push the Americans in a unilateralist position in which they are at the centre of a unipolar world."

So, you either back the US so the US will support your opinion...

Or you don't back the US and the US will not support your position.

The dominant superpower is only working with the "international community" when the "international community" agrees with what the dominant superpower wants to do.