Over the past sixty years, the political architecture and political mathematics of the United Nations have changed drastically. Not only has the number of Security Council non-permanent members been increased from 6 to 10, but the pivotal position in the General Assembly once held by Latin America is now held by Third-world countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. They have hijacked the United Nations and transformed it into one of the most anti-Western, anti-American, anti-Semitic, and anti-democratic organizations on the planet.
They are also determined to make the UN the substitute for sovereignty and the surrogate for a sovereign state’s decision-making institutions. Except when their own interests are at stake, they preach that the Security Council is the Government of the Earth and the General Assembly is the Parliament of Mankind.
America can keep the Security Council at bay because it has a veto there. But in the veto-free General Assembly, America, which pays 20 percent of the United Nations’ regular budget and about a third of its peacekeeping budget, has only four options: Either it abstains on a resolution, or it supports one it doesn’t like, or it introduces one it does like, or it waters it down to utter ineffectiveness in order to get the two-thirds vote required to pass a resolution in a General Assembly that is unrecognizably different from the one the UN’s founders envisaged in San Francisco in 1945.
The situation is now so bad that it forced John Bolton, when he was the United States ambassador to the United Nations, to remark: “Many people want me to be the UN’s ambassador to the U.S. That is not my job. I am the U.S. ambassador to the UN, and my primary duty is to advance U.S. foreign policy.”
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I say Canada should resign from the UN and ignore all decisions made any organization tied to it.
The United Nations is the enemy of Western Civilisation.
My view is that there may be some organizations operating under the umbrella of the UN that are worth keeping but basically I agree with the thrust of the article.
The UN is far beyond it’s “best before” date and it’s well past time that advanced societies took a hard second look at an organization that has lost all credibility and sent them on their way.
We can do better.
As the article suggests, the UN serves no purpose in this age except to serve the purposes of those who’ve hijacked it for their own purposes. The UN is the very incarnation of the expression “the tyranny of the majority” where rule of law becomes meaningless.