"We will likely support adding two or so permanent members to the Security Council," Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns told reporters, stressing that Japan was the only country it had endorsed.
In addition, "we will also support two or three additional non-permanent seats," he said. "And that would expand the Council from its current size of 15 members to 19 or 20."
The five current permanent members are China, the United States, France, Britain and Russia.
The New York Times quoted an administration official as saying the second candidate would come from the developing world.
This rules out Germany. Germany's current foreign policy rules out our help right now, too. Good luck to Berlin in getting help from Paris on this one.
Brazil is the superpower of tomorrow. And always will be. And they have nuclear ambitions. I don't want to encourage the idea that you can be a poverty-stricken state but nukes get you on the UNSC.
Japan has been a stand up friend. India is drawing closer to us. And both would be helpful in containing China. Brazil and Germany would be useless for this and most everything else. For the next decade anyway. Who news if sanity will break out in those countries.
Any other expansion of the UNSC is just plain stupid.
