The bad ideas that spawned the UN are deeply entrenched in the West.
Donald Trump’s address to the United Nations once again has challenged the failing, bloated institution, especially considering its damage to our country and its Constitutional order by allowing globalist elites to chip away at our sovereignty in order to serve the “international community” of the “new world order.” Much of our foreign policy errors and crises spring from a near century of the UN’s bad ideas and feckless idealism.
Wielding his signature straight talk, Trump delivered a much-needed home truth: “What is the purpose of the United Nations?” he asked, and quickly answered, “For the most part, at least for now, all they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up. It’s empty words, and empty words don’t solve wars.”
In other words, a typical hypertrophied bureaucracy riddled with professional deformation––the chronic abuse that served the institution and its treasonous clerks rather than the alleged purpose for which it was created and financed–– mostly by U.S. taxpayers.
Greed and ambition we’ll have with us always, but the bad ideas that spawned the UN are deeply entrenched in the West. The seed idealistic globalism began with Immanuel Kant’s “Perpetual Peace” in 1795. In it, Kant imagined innovations like a “federation of free states” that could form a “pacific alliance” that would “forever terminate all wars.” Kant understood that the world of his times was not yet ready for such a dream, but he believed that “the uniformity of the progress of the human mind” would reach such a goal.
During the following century the growth of new technologies and global trade seemingly promised a global “harmony of interests,” yet also more lethal and destructive wars too devastating and costly for business, giving impetus to Kant’s ambitious vision. By the outbreak of World War I, numerous downpayments on Kant’s dream had produced multilateral agreements, conventions, and treaties aimed at “establishing and securing international peace by placing it upon a foundation of international understanding, international appreciation, and international cooperation,” as Nicholas Murray Butler said in 1932.
Before then, agreements like the three Geneva Conventions (1864, 1906, 1929) had established collective laws for the humane treatment of the sick and wounded in battle, and later for prisoners. The Hague Conventions had similar ambitions. The first (1899) called for an international Court of Arbitration, and restrictions on aerial bombardment and the use of poison gas. The second (1907) convention expanded restrictions to naval warfare practice and armaments, as well as other changes to slowing down what host Tsar Nicholas II called the “accelerating arms race” that was “transforming armed peace into crushing burdens that weighs on all nations and, if prolonged, will lead to the very cataclysm it seeks to avert.”
And what did the West get for this feckless idealism and parchment barriers? The Great War with its eight and a half million dead, millions more civilians killed, extensive destruction of infrastructure, and a whole generation “lost” to the gruesome horrors of trench warfare, high explosives, and poison gas. As Winston Churchill wrote later, “When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and these were of doubtful utility.”
Also terminally maligned was the Versailles Treaty’s doubling-down on the globalist proliferation of new multilateral agreements that actually made the war the “war to end all wars,” as H.G. Wells erroneously put it in 1914. In fact––as French Marshal Ferdinand Foch predicted correctly when the treaty was signed in1919––“This is not Peace. It is an Armistice for twenty years.” --->READ MORE HERE
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Watching President Trump slice and dice the United Nations Tuesday morning, I couldn’t help but think that the gods have a sense of humor — and excellent timing.
The fact that neither the building’s escalator nor its teleprompter was working gave Trump fresh ammunition for his broad onslaught, which was well designed and extremely effective.
He saw the malfunctions as a metaphor for a blob of bureaucrats failing at their core reason for being.
He didn’t skimp on offering abundant evidence that the world body is a bust at making peace and keeping it.
Indeed, he argued that, beyond being useless, its weakness is actually making some big problems worse.
“What is the purpose of the United Nations?” he asked before answering his own question: “For the most part, at least for now, all they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up. It’s empty words, and empty words don’t solve wars.”
That and many other passages were examples of American straight talk at its best and most blunt.
His punches were all the more powerful for being delivered in a forum where obfuscation is prized and deception is often disguised as diplomacy.
Get the message
At 57 minutes, the president’s address could have used a trim here and there to tighten the focus and eliminate some of the excessive self-references.
Still, his meaning was clear and his main points were ones his international audience needed to hear, especially if they didn’t want to!
Given Trump’s cuts to foreign spending, it’s no surprise to the global grifters that Uncle Sam will no longer be Uncle Sap when it comes to funding their wastrel ways.
Moreover, the president removed any doubts that his America First agenda would ever yield its sovereignty and principles to a failed globalist regime.
That was the contrast at the heart of Trump’s address, which made it especially compelling as he cited both America’s success in key ways and the sputtering failures of our European allies, among others.
In fact, any citizens of Europe who watched or read Trump’s speech with an open mind must be wondering why their leaders are sticking with policies that are clear failures.
In particular, Trump repeatedly hit the target in damning Europe’s refusal to exploit its vast energy resources while agreeing to virtually unchecked and unvetted migration.
He essentially compared Europe to Joe Biden’s policies, which he derided as massive failures and even con jobs. --->READ MORE HERE
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