The United Nations was a follow-on to the League of
Nations that was founded in 1919 in reaction to the carnage of WWI, “the war to
end all wars.” ……. The League of Nations had failed
in part because it had been unable to convince the US to become a member. The
United Nations tried to avoid that outcome by taking into account the realities
of great power politics and so it established the Security Council, the key UN
organ…….It has never proven effective as a bulwark against aggression.
And so my question is: why even
bother with the United Nations? It is a bottomless pit that consumes the wealth
of nations and provides sinecures to corrupt and lazy bureaucrats. It is
particularly vulnerable to mission creep that allows it to intervene in the
internal affairs of independent nations on issues from “global warming” to the
internet, but has utterly failed in protecting vital principles such as
territorial integrity. It cannot stop violence, and it is too often silent when
aggression occurs, even when its own mechanisms are abused to commit that
aggression.
I know it is a pipe-dream, but
wouldn’t it be nice if we could just admit that the UN is a useless entity and
close it down? At the very least, it would no longer be there sitting on its
hands when the next war is ignited.......Read more at ......
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