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Two things, globalist position to do nothing is applicable to North Korea and any other far-left nations causing trouble or radical Islamist states causing trouble (they couldn’t apply that to post 9-11 Afghanistan but otherwise have done so).

As for my view about nations not being equal being racist, I assume that was a joke comment but if not, what I mean there has nothing to do with race, the notion that nations are equal (one country, one vote in UNGA) is absurd if one starts from the principle that all humans are equal under the law. Obviously they are not equal in attributes, but under the law, in theory, equal ... but therefore if one nation has 300 million people and another has 300,000 then these nations should not be considered equal on any basis, one has 1,000 times as many equal human residents as the other. Although matters of national sovereignty blur the comparison slightly, the larger country is fairly close to being 1,000 times more significant than the smaller country. Where this rule begins to get asymptotic is towards the upper end, the U.S.A. is basically the equal of China and is not twice as significant as Russia with half the population.

A compromise applied to the U.N. should be something like this — ten votes in the UNGA for the larger nations, and a sliding scale for those with populations below 60 million, which would be flattering for France, Germany and the U.K.

The idea that Antigua and Barbuda is the equal of China or that Swaziland is equal to the United States is just plain ridiculous. And having a voting system in the world’s only international body with legislative power (albeit small relative to national sovereignty) is not just ridiculous, it is dangerous.


18 posted on 09/19/2017 5:26:51 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (The president is a good man -- that's why they are out to get him -- where have we seen this before?)
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The Soviet Union insisted that each of its states have a vote in the General Assembly. Maybe we need 50 General Assembly votes, one for each state. Each state would have a UN seat.

Also if monetary support were prorated by population, China and India would provide the major funding for the UN, not the US.

Actually I would love the establishment of a new United Nations, whose membership is made up of nations with that guarantee their populations freedom. No nations with dictatorships allowed.


19 posted on 09/19/2017 5:38:58 PM PDT by Yulee (Village of Albion)
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