This seems unlikely to me:
Merkel to be the new ‘leader of the free world’?
Though it would be interesting to see Germany step up and take on the role of sending soldiers and fighters, helicopter and bombers to the middle east. If Germany is to be the leader of the free world, they might look to doing something about that invasion from the non-free world that they’ve got going on.
Next time there’s a major hurricane, earthquake or tsunami, it’s the German Navy that shows up with nuclear powered aircraft carriers to serve as logistics bases and mobile power stations; German cargo planes show up to unload thousands of tons of relief supplies. Germany that provides the bulk of the funding for NATO and the UN and sends hundreds of thousands of troops around the world to hundreds of bases to keep the peace and try to smack down terrorists and the like.
I’m sure I’ll see that any day now.